"Gravity dips due to Antarctic ice loss."--no irony here

[Kai Frederik Lorentzen]

My theory on this is that Pynchon heard about Harold Brodkey's projected 
novel "A Party of Animals" (--- which later got partly published under 
the title "The Runaway Soul") and didn't want the title of his own novel 
to sound so similar. But that's just a guess.

On 03.10.2014 20:00, Mark Kohut wrote:
> I hope I can learn somehow, before entropy slows me to stillness,
> how TRP hit on and decided to change the title from Mindless
> Pleasures---which has many resonances but
> seems a quite different overarching meaning (sometimes)---to Gravity's
> Rainbow.
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