Hypertext character arc?

[Michael Bailey]

Hi Joseph!

I’d be interested in reading what you have to say about that & might find a
way to add a comment or two although there’s a certain amount of inertia
I’d need to overcome (-;

There are so many interesting characters. Pirate for one - it’d be neat to
take a gander the way you described.

Hope you continue on that trajectory, seems like you have a good launch
angle, workable tech, and sufficient propellant in terms of it being a good
idea which is also somewhat new & different (I seem to recall someone
talking about mapping all the *locations* in AtD but I don’t it was
followed up on)


On Sat, Feb 8, 2025 at 3:38 PM J Tracy <brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> Would love to hear more thoughts from James or others on Gravity’s
> Rainbow.  I have possible idea  loosely based on James idea of the
> importance of arcs in the novel- the launch, rise and fall of of a
> particular life, idea, object, empire.
> One thing many have commented on in this  novel  and concerning  Pynchon
> as a writer is that before the age of hyperlinked text Pynchon points
> toward that structure, perhaps picking up on Joyce as a source.
>
>  I think the digital versions of the text present an interesting option in
> this sprawling text to follow a theme, word or character through the whole
> course of the book. Would it interest anyone else to look at a character, a
> key concept like say mechanized guidance systems, or the connection between
> sex and death,  in that way? To list every reference to say Pirate( Pilate)
> Prentice ( apprentice), and see if there is an arc , a moment of decision,
> a rise and fall?   Of course participants would need either a list of
> references or a digital version.
>
> If anyone is up for this I would be willing to start with a character and
> their page references.
>
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