Hint of Against The Day in Gravity's Rainbow?

[Erik T. Burns]

FWIW the rumor that he was writing a book about the Mason and Dixon
Line was contemporary with the publication of Gravity's Rainbow. see:
http://www.vheissu.net/sl/



On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 9:18 PM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> I think from what Pynchon has said about his planned works from the
> earliest that it is very likely he had Against the Day in mind as he
> finished Gravity's Rainbow. I think you've
> found some circumstantial evidence for that. I say Congrats.
> I have also long believed, from some textual but highly circumstantial
> evidence, that he started writing Against the Day when he had finished
> GR. I think it likely
> he worked on AtD and M & D during those long years until Vineland was
> published. I think Vineland came to him new as he watched America
> unfold and he stopped out of
> the other two to write and publish it first.
>
>
>
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 1:12 PM, Alex Nunez <penarecords at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Apologies if this has been brought up before.
>>
>> While reading the story of Byron the Bulb in GR, I came across this passage
>> which sounds like Pynchon giving a hint about his future work, Against The
>> Day. Page 651 on my Vintage edition:
>>
>> "But here something odd happens. Yes, damned odd. The plan is to smash up
>> Byron and send him back right there in the shop to cullet and batch--salvage
>> the tungsten, of course--and let him be reincarnated in the glassblower's
>> next project (a balloon setting out on a journey from the top of a white
>> skyscraper)."
>>
>> The balloon obviously being the Chums and the white skyscraper representing
>> Chicago and the World's Columbian Exposition.
>>
>> What do you all think?
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