Light, that pervasive subject and theme in AtD.

[Dennis Keohane]

Try doing the same with "wind", eh?

On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 12:14 PM, Toby Levy <tobyglevy at gmail.com> wrote:

> During one early re-read of Gravity's Rainbow I highlighted every use
> of the word light and it's formations )lit, lighted, lightning, etc)
> and it there was an incredibly large number of highlights.
>
> Toby
>
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com>
> Date: Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:42 AM
> Subject: Light, that pervasive subject and theme in AtD.
> To: pynchon -l <pynchon-l at waste.org>
>
>
> How IBM Created The World’s Fastest Light-Powered Chip IBM has
> developed an optical chip — thats a microchip that uses light instead
> of wires to transmit data — capable of transmitting data at the nearly
> unfathomable speed of 1 terabit per second. That’s fast enough to
> allow someone to download 500,000 HD movies in one second, or the
> entire contents of the Library of Congress in an hour. Read more →
>
> One reason books last is that their 'symbolic form', as someone named
> it, gathers the right metaphors, images, symbols for meaning.
> One must, I think, have a little awe at TRP for finding "light" so
> pervasively rich.
>
> That metaphor is one place where AtD is still a 'prophetic' novel....
>
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