"1984" and "Gravity's Rainbow"

[Dave Monroe]

On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

> If you have not reread 1984 since high school, did
> you remember that the London of that novel is being
> bombed with @20-30 V-2 rockets a week still?
>
> A--and, do you remember the paragraph when Winston
> goes drinking in proles' pubs and sees the proles
> scattering for cover at one point and reflects that
> they seemed to know in advance when a bomb was coming
> down on the area?
>
> I did not.

I do now.  Thanks!