Between Empires: the reissue
Ten years ago, almost to the day, I spent three weeks travelling in the USA, the UK and Germany. During that time I wrote a series of poems, entitled Between Empires. While many of these poems have been published individually, the collection itself has until now remained secret.https://daveydreamnation.com/blogging/between-empires-the-reissue/
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Tyrone Slothrop arrested by London Police for stalking women.
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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
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.
"Pynchon’s clear doubts about whether America can overcome its attraction to fascism are bearing unwanted fruit in 2025. The doubts have been proven right. Pynchon’s view of the American right is plainly and perversely stated in Shadow Ticket when one character says to another, of youth described as “Hitlerboys” in a changing Hamburg, “I want to believe they’re only being obnoxious but I think it’s worse than that.” The response is curt: “It’s worse.”"
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/thomas-pynchon-saw-american-fascism-coming
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