Hint of Against The Day in Gravity's Rainbow?

[Mark Kohut]

yes, thank you. I was too lazy to look this up and link to it.

I think that the sic-fi thriller mentioned morphed---or he was pulling
our reading leg---into Against the Day. The Trespassers having
lived thru something like Mothra/Gojira do and that part of AtD and
the Chums' narrative structure is what became of sic-fi---
EXCEPT, of course, with Pynchon AtD is/ could be an alternative
history sci-fi work--another Chums adventure of course,  so to speak
(very loosely)

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 4:30 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/
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> 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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