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BlütensthaubThomas 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
»He has the heart of a punk rock singer, but the blood of a protestant New Yorker subscriber.«
Fantastic Podcast for my first read of Thomas Pynchons #GravitysRainbow :
Slow Learners: EP 5: Use Your Allusion (W/Prof. David Cowart)
Webseite der Episode: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ian-scuffling/episodes/EP-5-Use-Your-Allusion-WProf--David-Cowart-e2a74eg
EP 5: Use Your Allusion (W/Prof. David Cowart) by Slow Learners
We wrap the first part of Gravity's Rainbow (chapters 18-21), which sees Pointsman getting lucky, Slothrop shipped off to the Riviera, and Roger and Jessica checking out a cheeky Christmas panto. In this episode, we're joined by David Cowart, author of Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History and Thomas Pynchon: The Art of Allusion, to talk about the history of the postmodern novel, and how Gravity's Rainbow defines the form. Other topics include: Chaucer, Joyce, Christmas Parties, if the British put a moratorium on German art during WWII, meta-narratives, Jerry Garcia, Weimar Germany, Marxists, the cult of the rocket, poster pasting, probability, the mechanical model of the human mind, Newtonian reality vs. Heisenbergian reality, entropy. Read Proverbs For Paranoids, John's guide to Gravity's Rainbow. E-mail us your questions, queries, and crackpot theories: [email protected] And/or... Leave us a voicemail by calling (609) 353-6873.
Keiran RowellNew 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
From Muck to Mauve: the creation of modern dyes from coal tar
Content notice: this post discusses the early dye companies of industrialised pre-WWI Germany that were at one point put to horrific wartime use. World War II is alluded to in a literary work that was famously denied a Pulitzer prize in part because of its confronting content.
Lot⁴⁹1/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.
Open Water Otter VE7GR🏳️🌈The firmament keeps telling me that I need to read the novels #InfiniteJest, and #GravitysRainbow
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..."
don't call me cookie 
„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
#ThomasPynchon #GravitysRainbow
Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow p.548
#ThomasPynchon #GravitysRainbow
Fahrradverkehr„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
#ThomasPynchon #GravitysRainbow
Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow p.548
#ThomasPynchon #GravitysRainbow
studio craque 54 🏳️🌈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