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

[Mark Kohut]

Interesting, unusual possible connection. But the titles do not seem that close for one to be changed, to me. And Pynchon had the title on early manuscript copies when Harold was not even close. 

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> On Oct 4, 2014, at 5:50 AM, Kai Frederik Lorentzen <lorentzen at hotmail.de> wrote:
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> 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.
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>> 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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