Gravity's Rainbow in depth on Studio 360

[Paul Mackin]

On 3/6/2012 5:40 PM, John Bailey wrote:
> Read this a few days ago and it niggled at me in some way I couldn't
> understand...
>
> ...then I got to thinking how this scientist's conclusions re: GR are
> pretty much the opposite of mine.
>
> To me the novel shows how the human tendency to impose order is
> problematic at best, and more often terrible.


Would you say this tendency to impose order is a definition of paranoia?

I'm reminded of some lines in Michael Wood's review of GR.


" . . . . From Auschwitz we can get to Hiroshima, but how do we get to 
the roots of either? We can’t bear this blankness, and so we invent 
roots, social, psychological, racial, anthropological, archaeological.

"All these inventions are paranoias, Pynchon is telling us, they create 
connections where there are none, and he sets out, in Gravity’s Rainbow 
as in V., to make elaborate, sympathetic, but devastating mockery of all 
such enterprises . . . ."


P



>
> Maybe his "living green" will lead to Imipolex G.
>
> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Jordan Hunnicutt<antipusrises at gmail.com>  wrote:
>> I don't know if this has been discussed yet, but here is a short story about
>> a professor of biochemistry that goes in depth with Gravity's Rainbow.
>>
>> http://www.studio360.org/2012/feb/24/aha-moment-gravitys-rainbow/
>