Recognizing Translation Difficulties

[Jed Kelestron]

>From forward to Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated:

"So, like a lot of people, I sat down one summer and read 760 pages
and the style of thought contained in those pages inspired a powerful
shock of recognition and the shock bounced around my head for years
afterward like a ball of butterflies."      --Zak Smith

>From the introduction of same by Steve Erikson:

"[Smith's Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated] coheres among all the
alternate-universe Gravity's Rainbows that fill a library comprising
the novel's every single reading by very single reader who's ever read
it. There's not one Gravity's Rainbow but thousands. [...] No one who
understands Gravity's Rainbow --- to the extent that anyone does, even
its author --- can doubt that Pynchon would have it any other way."