PKD and TRP

[umberto rossi]

On 4 Sep 2009 at 13:30, John Carvill wrote:

> or
> 'Time Out of Joint', being a 'precursor' to Gravity's Rainbow.

It's something more than being a precursor, and something less. I 
wrote an article on that, which was kindly published by Pynchon 
Notes. Let's say that there's a character (name's Ragle Gumm) in TOJ 
who can predict where certain missiles will fall, which is more or less 
what Slothrop's hard-ons seem to do in GR. There are maps in both 
novels, and conspiracies in both novels; the main character must 
somewhat escape in both novels. Then TOJ is much smaller and less 
complex than GR... yet it's quite clear that TRP had read it while he 
was writing GR, and borrowed some ideas.
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umberto rossi