Going boom

[Mark Kohut]

I, too, without your deeper measuring, did feel......400? That many??? 

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> On Sep 4, 2015, at 7:06 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Ahhhhhh... if you include real names dropped in but not given any
> presence as "characters" then perhaps it does reach the 400 mark.
> 
>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 9:00 AM, Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I think I have it. Interesting. goes back to the great early appreciator Tony Tanner from his early book in 1974.....HOWEVER, he wrote, " there are over 400 characters--or I should say names--in Gravity's Rainbow"....Harold Bloom said/ repeated it very early as well...
>> 
>> Tanner meant Names! ..all those name-check allusions !
>> 
>> Put " 400 characters.. gravity's Rainbow" into Google Books and see.
>> 
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>>> On Sep 4, 2015, at 6:28 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Where did the mythical "there are around 400 characters in Gravity's
>>> Rainbow" come from? I counted once and got 237. I'm probably off by a
>>> few but overlooking 170 characters would require a serious blow to the
>>> head.
>>> 
>>> Would be interested to discover which piece of writing first conjured
>>> the figure that so many have taken at face value since. Those kinds of
>>> perpetuated factoids (even if wrong) are fascinating.
>>> 
>>>> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 1:02 AM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> "Seven hundred and sixty pages of linguistic wizardry, Thomas
>>>> Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow is a life-changing book."
>>>> 
>>>> http://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/read/going-boom/article7611853.ece
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks, Doug Millison!
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