Fwd: Hint of Against The Day in Gravity's Rainbow?

[Mark Kohut]

maybe all the Godzilla references in VINELaND, are a kind of
foreshadowing,,,as well as a symbolic placement
of The Bomb in our lives?


That's true.......guess he likes the story, backstory..............so,
even more tenuous speculation on my part......

On Sat, Sep 20, 2014 at 4:49 PM, Erik T. Burns <eburns at gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, Godzilla is explicitly part of Vineland...
>
>   Original Message
> From: Mark Kohut
> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2014 21:39
> To: Erik T. Burns
> Cc: Alex Nunez; pynchon -l
> Subject: Re: Hint of Against The Day in Gravity's Rainbow?
>
> 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/
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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