Mfw i just now understood the opening of Gravity's Rainbow from an Amazon editorial review

>mfw i just now understood the opening of Gravity's Rainbow from an Amazon editorial review

Isn't it just Pirate dreaming or using his dream ability?

No it's literally just a quote from Finnegans Wake

It's Pynchon's way of telling a joke

? I don't remember that

Don't you remember the episode where Pynchon and Joyce can't stop finishing each others sentences?

"A screaming comes across the sky..."

with the obvious meaning of the rockets and the other of tyrone's orgasms

Uh no that's literally a fart joke from Finnegans Wake in the middle section.

It's always kinda sad when someone devotes the time to a great back and almost everything goes over their head.

i wish there was a way to let you know you're not worth replying to without actually replying, but here (You) go

Senpai, if some idiot has never read Finnegans Wake and can't spot and intertextual citation of it when he reads Pynchon, it's my duty to inform them - berate them - but inform them.

I'm doing the user a favor.

You really shouldn't read GR without first reading (and probably rereading) Finnegans Wake.

>(you)

Did you actually read either

What I like more about the opening is how it ends up connecting with the ending. The book mentions a lot about the fact that the V-2 always ends up hitting before you can hear it coming. The V-2 strikes first, and then you hear it later.

The novel ends with the book being cut off by a rocket "Now everybody--" and the opening of the novel is "A screaming comes across the sky."

Will reading Gravity's Rainbow make me better at humor and comedy?

FwwhwhwhhweEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEyyuuuuuururururururuuurururuuruuruuur..........
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
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((( (( /// // ' \\-\ \ )) ))
/// /// (( _ _ -- \\-- \\\ \)
((( == (( -- (( )) )- ) __ )) )))
(( (( -= (( --- ( _ ) --- )) ))
(( __ (( ()((( \\ / /// )) __ )))
\\_ (( __ | | __ ) _ ))
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`-._____,-'
`--.___,--'
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( (( (((( /,| __| | )))) ))) ) ))
(())) __/ ||( ,, ((//\ ) ))))
---((( ///_.___ _/ ||,,_____,_,,, (|\ \___.....__.. ))--ool
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\ |___|___|_ |/\ /__/|
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OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Kinda want some McDonald's right now

Resist that impulse

But user...

Several times. Each. In varying orders.

I find the most piquant to be FW - FW - GR - FW.

The relation is delicate, but when you've given it a try you'll see whole new possibilities open up in the text. In both texts. Pynchon is basically using GR as a means to come to terms with FW. Hence why it's set in Europe.

This is one of the dumbest baits I've ever seen masquerading as genuine analysis.
t. Person who has made the mistake of reading finnegans wake

But he's right...

Pynchon said in his most recent interview that he was constantly consulting Finnegans Wake while he composed Gravity's Rainbow.

There's a lot of really productive work you can do with those texts.

Mistake? It's the perfect book for your nightstand.. fuck off, plebmaster.

Literally nowhere has this ever been said.
Please cite your bullshit.

>a quote from Finnegans Wake
Bullshit.

>the perfect book for your nightstand
This guy knows. He also knows how to hit those trips.