#gravitys-rainbow — Public Fediverse posts
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"Es wird nicht mehr lange dauern, bis Kinder reicher Zahlväter aus aller Welt nach Heidelberg strömen, um sich im Hauptfach #Schuld zu immatrikulieren. Es wird Bars und Nachtklubs geben, die sich der besonderen Bedürfnisse der Schuldenthusiasten annehmen. Die #Vernichtungslager werden sich in Touristenattraktionen verwandeln, durch die man kamerabewehrte ausländische Besucher herdenweise treiben wird, angenehm erregt und zitternd vor lauter Schuldgefühlen."
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Allein für das typografische Highlight «‹«Hier»›?» haben sich die 860 Seiten (bis zum «Hier») von »Die Enden der Parabel« gelohnt. 😂
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Nur noch 650 Seiten (von Die Enden der Parabel)
#ThursdayWhatAConcept_ #pynchon #GravitysRainbow #bookstodon
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Thomas Pynchon, „Gravity’s Rainbow“, 1973
„Vergiss nicht, dass das eigentliche Geschäft des Krieges das Kaufen und Verkaufen ist. Das Töten und die Gewalt regeln sich von selbst und können Laien anvertraut werden.“
https://www.cocosse.com/2026/03/days-entrust-thomas-pynchon-1973/
#Gewalt #GravitySRainbow #Krieg #Politik #Töten #ThomasPynchon #Zettel -
New post! On the #chemistry of #purple, my favourite colour 💜
https://keiran-rowell.github.io/dyes/2025-11-05-aniline-and-the-german-chemical-industry/
This tale winds its way past sea snails and togas 🏛️, coal tar and dream snakes 🐍, industrial conglomerates and chemical theory ⌬ ⟷ ⏣, to flow back in recirculation to fundamental light-sensitive cells themselves 👁️💡🦠
Spend time with this hue right at the edge of our perception 🎨
#benzene #Kekulé #dyes #BASF #organic #porphyrin #GravitysRainbow #Pynchon #Perkin #rhodopsin #HistoryofScience #orbitals #art
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1/In my journey through #Pynchon's #GravitysRainbow, I got to the part where Slothrop sneaks into Potsdam while Truman, Churchill and Stalin are meeting there to divide up Europe. The description is very specific as to the location of the house on the Griebnitzsee where Slothrop is trying to find the hidden kilo of hashish that Emil "Säure" Bummer has told him about: 2 Kaiserstrasse.
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In #GravitysRainbow, here's Yank protagonist Slothrop all dressed up for a party:
"With my face shined up-like a microphone
And uh Sta-Comb on my hair,
I’m just as suave-as an ice-cream cone,
I’m Mister Debonair. . . ."and turned out in a green French suit of wicked cut with a subtle purple check in it, broad flowered tie won at the trente-et-quarante table, brown and white wingtip shoes with golf cleats, and white socks, Slothrop tops off now with a midnight-blue snap-brim fedora..."
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„Once the technical means of control have reached a certain size, a certain degree of being connected one to another, the chances for freedom are over for good. The word has ceased to have meaning."
Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow p.548
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„Once the technical means of control have reached a certain size, a certain degree of being connected one to another, the chances for freedom are over for good. The word has ceased to have meaning."
Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow p.548
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Ballard's Drowned World is 1962.
So far it gives me strong Bradbury, Pynchon, and Delaney feels.
Ray and JG were contemporary and I think it shows. In a good way!
It reminds me a lot of Dhalgren (1975), which I may rereread next because I kept losing interest carting around an enormous paperback that has since disappeared. No gay sex yet tho.
I won't reread Gravity's Rainbow (1973) again (I think), there's others I want to cover. Still have that kilo of a tome.
This is all probably somehow the fault of Paul Bowles.
@bookstodon #JGBallard #DrownedWorld #Pynchon #GravitysRainbow #Bradbury #PaulBowles
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[2/3] My #VoteCorbyn volunteering began exactly one week before polling day on Thursday 27th June (two weeks ago today).
I had previously been busy. My American family (last visit #ge2017) managed to plan a visit (with Pirate Prentice levels of #GravitysRainbow empathy) for two weeks in #ge2024. Then I lost my job. Then I got distracted by the amazing #NeilForPoole campaign (final majority 18). And finally I needed a rest. With a book. On my parent's lawn. During the heatwave.
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#ThomasPynchon #Postmodern #PostModernLiterature
A great video analysis of #GravitysRainbow
The video essay has a slightly too obvious title. However, the essay itself has things to say beyond the synopsis of a book most won't read or of being an introduction to the same experience.
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#ProsePoem #EpicPoetry #EpicPoem #Postmodern #PostModernLiterature #Poetry
#Novella #Blog #Writing #WritingCommunity #Fiction #BLogSo This has been what I have been working on most of the last week. I feel like I have found my voice with the realization that #GravitysRainbow is a prose poem and I am writing in the tradition of Jim Dodge and Richard Brautigan by way of that realization.
all constructive criticism is welcome and appreciated.
The link is to my blog
https://m1a1-thesockmonkey.blogspot.com/2023/10/wayward-bound-or-warped-piano.html
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One of the most challenging parts of #GravitysRainbow for me is grappling with the deliberately dreamy inflections in narration. So often, there isn't a single line where you're now inside the head of someone else - characters seem to grapple for agency over several paragraphs of shared narrative framing. Typically these contain the most confusing and the most honest feelings. I'm starting to think post-modernism is a commentary on how poorly conditioned we are to handle harsh realities.
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CW: genocide reference
"Don’t forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals." Ohhhh... I always thought this quote was referencing the military industrial complex - turns out it was how many Dutch Jewish families are worth sending to the gas chambers to get actionable intelligence on V2 rocket launch sites. #GravitysRainbow #pynchon
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Most haunting #GravitysRainbow line so far be "patrolled night and day by dogs specially betrayed". And there stiff competition.
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Slightly puzzled why psionically inclined intelligence analysts would be impressed that evenly spaced V2 rocket impacts across London could be modeled and then predicted with a Poisson distribution equation - possibly this is a subtle satire on the ability of statisticians to see meaning in the stultifying banality of randomness? #GravitysRainbow #Pynchon
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I'd like to discuss #Postmodernism with someone. I'm trying to figure out what I think about it. #InfiniteJest, #GravitysRainbow, #SlaughterhouseFive are among my favorite books, if that means anything.
A lot of these descriptions fit me:
"epistemological relativism, moral relativism, pluralism, irony, irreverence, and eclecticism." I think those are good traits, but I have a creeping sense that something is missing...
Maybe I am a #Postmodernist who is slowly inching toward something else? -
https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/04/05/the-machine-all-of-us-created-together/
Just some sci fi geek rambling about what "the machine" is and what role AI and humans have to play in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF34N4gJAKE
#Technology, #AI, #Artificial Intelligence, #Bonobo, #Computers, #Consciousness, #Cyriak, #GravitysRainbow, #JohnnyRebeck, #JohnnyVerbeck, #Machine, #MIA, #RyeRye, #SausageMachine, #ThomasPynchon, #Pynchon -
Trying to have another crack at Gravity's Rainbow - this time my little reading support buddy comes to join me and lights up the little purr engine #pynchon #GravitysRainbow #literature #caturday
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Gravity’s Rainbow is 50! Read this brilliant appreciation, even if you never read the novel. But go on, read the novel too. Thinking I might go in again… book club, anyone? https://theconversation.com/join-the-counterforce-thomas-pynchons-postmodern-epic-gravitys-rainbow-at-50-196657
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We’re All Living Under Gravity’s Rainbow
Looming apocalypse. Paranoid conspiracies. Rocket-obsessed oligarchs. As Thomas Pynchon’s novel turns 50, its world feels unnervingly present.
@[email protected] for @[email protected]#ThomasPynchon #Pynchon #GravitysRainbow #novel #bookstodon
https://www.wired.com/story/living-under-gravitys-rainbow-thomas-pynchon/
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The new demo inspired by #GravitysRainbow it is a #GaragePunk or #IndustrialMetal inspired #Doom #Punk I change my opinion on this one.
This link leads to #BandCamp
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jfc, I read it for the first time half a century ago. oh my oh my.
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RT @pynchoninpublic
To celebrate Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow turning 50 I visited the Imperial War Museum to see the V2 rocket. It is cut away to show the fuel tanks and engine itself. I didn't realise how big it was until up close. #gravitysrainbow #ElephantandCastle #SouthLondon
@I_W_M https://twitter.com/WIREDCulture/status/1626200040166379526
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#Pynchon remarks on this in #GravitysRainbow
