The force of The Counterforce

[Mark Kohut]

A screaming comes across the sky.
 
Studio 360 - Aha Moment: Gravity's Rainbow www.studio360.org 
Gerald Joyce is a professor of biochemistry at the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, California. In the 1970s, he was studying biochemistry at The University of Chicago, when he discovered Gravity's Rainbow, the sprawling World War II novel by Thomas Pynchon ...

From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
To: Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: The force of The Counterforce


I imagine it will be online; everything just about is. 


From: Keith Davis <kbob42 at gmail.com>
To: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> 
Cc: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org> 
Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 3:29 PM
Subject: Re: The force of The Counterforce


Podcast?
On Feb 26, 2012 12:54 PM, "Mark Kohut" <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:

So, I'm hurrying, almost running, to the car because I'm late, but
>evidently a butterfly's wings in Mazatlan had changed my life just enough
>so that the first words I heard when I turned on the car were:
> 
>"...the Counterforce in Pynchon is mythic, however".........
> 
>True (after "first words" anyway).
> 
>Physicist named, I think, Gerald Joyce, on Studio 360 (NPR linked) who went on
>to speak about atoms being immortal and linking to his conception of The Counterforce
>in what is, evidently, a series about books that have changed one's life-----for real.
>