"1984" and "Gravity's Rainbow"

[Michael Bailey]

Mark Kohut 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?
>

there's a p-notes article somewhere that draw parallels between
Winston and Julia's love nest and Roger and Jessica's

> 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?
>

didn't remember that!  Thanks!
>
>



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