David Foster Wallace, Thomas Pynchon and the Brockengespenst

[Robert Mahnke]

FWIW, one of the footnotes quotes Wallace as saying:


“That thing in Infinite Jest where two representatives (Steeply and
Marathe) of two countries are on a cliff-side and are making enormous
shadows and playing with it — and there’s even the use of the word
Brockengespenst, which comes out of Slothrop and Geli Tripping (from
Gravity’s Rainbow) fucking on the Brockengespenst— that’s an outright
allusion.”



On Sun, Aug 5, 2012 at 2:45 PM, Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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