An Information Junkie's Guide ...

[Dave Monroe]

Bandwidth as a Metaphor for Consciousness in Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow

http://www.scribd.com/doc/93345013/Bandwidth-as-Metaphor-for-Consciousness-in-Pynchon-s-Gravity-s-Rainbow

On Tuesday, June 10, 2014, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> Read Thomas Pynchon. Trust me, if you want to use up all the
> “bandwidth” in your mind with a steady, confounding, exhilarating flow
> of information, there’s always Pynchon. Give “Gravity’s Rainbow” a
> shot. It might take you a couple times to make it through the World
> War II-set phantasmagoria of paranoia, arcane symbolism, scatological
> humor, bananas, puns awful and sublime, rocketry, and sex, but it’s
> worth it. And fun! You might as well pick up Steven C. Weisenberger’s
> “A Gravity’s Rainbow Companion, too. It’s a page-by-page breakdown of
> all the references in the National Book Award-winning novel. It might
> drag it out a bit, but you do have a whole month. If you don’t have
> the patience for it, though, there’s “Inherent Vice,” the closest
> thing to a “beach read” Pynchon has written. It’s sort of like “The
> Big Lebowski” by way of Raymond Chandler and Mad Magazine, and it’s
> being adapted by “There Will Be Blood” director Paul Thomas Anderson
> into a feature film starring Joaquin Phoenix. The movie is due for
> release this winter, so brush up!
>
>
http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2014/06/10/an-information-junkies-guide-to-shutting-out-the-world-cup/
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