BtZ/BtI: Kubrick/Pynchon

[Monte Davis]

"Beyond the Infinite" strikes me as too generic a science-fictional phrase
for a confident linkage with "BtZ," and I at least didn't even
notice/remember that 2001 *had* section titles. But there is a sweet
metaphorical parallelism between p. 8

"God has plucked it [the rocket] for him [Pirate]. out of its airless sky,
like a steel banana."


and in 2001, the famous Kubrickian transition at the end of the prologue:
the hominid's hominicidal bone thrown exultantly into the air, spinning,
match-dissolving into the waltz of spaceship and space station. Surely this
has been suggested many times before -- I mean, Weisenbuger's GR Companion
has a V-2 banana on the cover...



On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 1:01 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is Pynch known to have any particular relationship to *2001*?
>
> The last section of the movie*t *is called "Jupiter and Beyond the
> Infinite". It comes out five years before *GR. *Hard to imagine any
> scenario whereby Pynchon doesn't see this movie. Thus doesn't *know *his
> title has an overt relationship to the movie chapter.
>
> Reminds me: there's a David Foster Wallace story in *Oblivion *called
> "The Soul Is Not a Smithy," correcting a line from the end of *A Portrait
> of the Artist as a Young Man *in which JJ says that the soul--Dedalus's,
> anyway--is. A smithy.
>
>
>
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