Help: Gravity's Rainbow passage about conspiracy, paranoia, plot

Dave Monroe against.the.dave at gmail.com
Sat Sep 26 09:24:33 CDT 2009


On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Mr.SpOOn <mr.spoon21 at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm searching for a passage, possibly in Gravity's Rainbow (but it
> would be okay also Mason & Dixon), about conspiracy. I mean, a passage
> where some character talks about a plot, or is paranoid about
> something, about "they" or anything....

Have you tried simply opening either book to pretty much any given page?

Okay, sory, being a wieguy (albeit a not entireky wrong one)--was
there a specific passage you might be looking for, or are you simply
looking for an exemplary one?  Let us know.  Meanwhile ...

http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Paranoia/Connectedness

http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=P#proverbs

http://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=T#they

> I need this to read it on a radio show where we talk about conspiracy
> theories and other stuff....

Do let us know when this happens, by the way, and if it's
accessible/archived online ...

> So I'd like to read something about conspiracy, in general. I think that
> the five proverbs for paranoid are just perfect, but I need something longer.
> Can you point me some nice passage?

Ah, okay.  Do ee those links/wiki entries above, they may not cite
suchj pasages in ful, but will certainly point you to something.  I'll
take a shot at it as well ...

> The show is italian and so I'll search for the passage in the italian
> version of the book, so if you're going to point me something it would
> be better to tell me the section rather than the exact page.

Will do ...



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