Gravity's Rainbow in depth on Studio 360

[Alex Colter]

I would say 'tis Imagination. And we strive to impose order from one of
several Vantage Points or Inconveniences.


On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 11:15 AM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net>wrote:

> On 3/6/2012 5:40 PM, John Bailey wrote:
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>> Read this a few days ago and it niggled at me in some way I couldn't
>> understand...
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>> ...then I got to thinking how this scientist's conclusions re: GR are
>> pretty much the opposite of mine.
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>> To me the novel shows how the human tendency to impose order is
>> problematic at best, and more often terrible.
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> Would you say this tendency to impose order is a definition of paranoia?
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> I'm reminded of some lines in Michael Wood's review of GR.
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> " . . . . 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.
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> "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 . . . ."
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>> Maybe his "living green" will lead to Imipolex G.
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>> On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 3:10 AM, Jordan Hunnicutt<antipusrises at gmail.**com<antipusrises at gmail.com>>
>>  wrote:
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>>> 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/<http://www.studio360.org/2012/feb/24/aha-moment-gravitys-rainbow/>
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