"Nobody has"

[Erik T. Burns]

the novel also has many infraction points

On Fri, Jan 13, 2023 at 6:41 PM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Not sure whether it’s been mentioned, but “Gravity’s Rainbow” makes a
> return appearance in the 2022 Rian Johnson comedy “Glass Onion”. Its brief
> cameo highlights the detective’s erroneous impression from “Knives Out”
> where he states:
> “Benoit Blanc: Harlan's detectives, they dig, they rifle and root. Truffle
> pigs. I anticipate the terminus of Gravity's Rainbow.
> Marta Cabrera: Gravity's Rainbow.
> Benoit Blanc: It's a novel.
> Marta Cabrera: Yeah, I know. I haven't read it though.
> Benoit Blanc: Neither have I. Nobody has. But I like the title. It
> describes the path of a projectile determined by natural law.”
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> MK: Of course, the title hardly does that and is a misspeaking of "natural
> law" imao (but it is a character speaking so it might be in character) when
> what is meant is natural forces or physics---"no damn rainbow" as Kurt V
> wrote similarly about *Cat's Cradle. A--a*nd the meanings of gravity are
> heavy,
> man, heavy as a black hole. ......(see Simone Weil and more)
>
> "But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola.
> They must have guessed, once or twice - guessed and refused to believe -
> that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified
> shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chances, no
> return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own
> black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the Rainbow, and they its
> children...."
>
>
> https://niklasriewald.com/2022/02/21/the-math-behind-gravitys-rainbow-part8-the-shape-whose-centre-of-gravity-is-the-brennschluss-point/
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