05-15-2013, 10:20 AM
(05-14-2013, 12:53 AM)Brownlie Wrote: Gravity's rainbow is a hard read, I made an earnest attempt to read the novel in highschool. Basically, the missle is phallic, there's obviously more to the book than that but thats what stuck with me. Pynchon's prose definately borders on poetry. War is awful and seems to be a peculiar phenomenon that applies to the human animal.
Yes. I was making my third attempt at reading the damned thing recently (last two were many years ago)
and was looking up info on V2 rockets when I came across an article on the Woolworth's store destruction
and I just couldn't resist writing this. I DO love Pynchon's ironically abstract prose. This time around
I'm given up any attempt at global understanding and am just letting it pour over me like, as you said: poetry.
I reached my intellectual limit, it seems, with the Crying of Lot 49. Loved that one.
a brightly colored fungus that grows in bark inclusions