Section 3 of Gravity's Rainbow is called In The Zone. P. 279-616, the biggest section of the 4.
There are a million and one references I have to look up to grok the book, but I just list the ones I enjoyed learning.
Jungians will like this German word: Schattensaft: shadow juice.
Badger game: an extortion racket in which a man is lured by a woman into a compromising position and is then confronted with and blackmailed by the woman's accomplice posing as her husband or brother. (p. 292)
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Pynchon’s Prophecy by Gus Mitchell: "Gravity’s Rainbow is a visionary work, as prophetic in its own way as Dante or Blake. However far Blake or Dante saw, however, they still speak to us from times before the secular apocalypse bearing down on us. Pynchon was the first great writer to see it, and to see it completely, in all its manifestations. He knew that the impulse toward control, toward totalizing systems—the impulse of those we allow to rule us—leads into unfreedom, and finally, to doom."
I come back to Leaf by Leaf's reading of the book, long video.
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Recent thoughts on Gravity's Rainbow
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