David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon and the Brockengespenst

[Joe Allonby]

What Marathe and Steeply are doing is a little different from Slothrop
and Geli, even if Steeply is in drag.


On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 2:34 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is an incident in David Foster Wallace’s “Infinity Jest” (1991)
> that is a direct reference to Thomas Pychon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow”
> (1973). I believe though that this is actually part of a chain of
> references going back to Goethe
>
> [...]
>
> http://www.xefer.com/2012/07/brocken