Gravity's Rainbow in depth on Studio 360

[alice wellintown]

" 'And some eggs are very pretty, you know,' she added, hoping to turn
her remark into a sort of compliment."

Like the assassin in 1Q84, I like a good head, grown slightly balled,
served on a platter, but here's no greater matter.



> Sorry, Alice, but your Gatsby quote is somewhat crumbled; what is
> more, it's not a sentence.
>
> Perhaps you want to put it right:
>
> Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house,
> had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human
> dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his
> breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic
> contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the
> last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for
> wonder.