Joe Biden actually quotes Gravity's Rainbow in speech

[John Bailey]

I dunno if he's read it, or if some plucky young speechwriter just
wrote it in for him, but pretty surreal turn of events when a major
politician raises Pynchon during a speech.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/biden-tamps-down-2016-speculation-during-iowa-visit

Would love to read the full text of the "lengthy reference" he
apparently made to P.
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