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Gravity's Rainbow notes p. 457-468, 468-472, 473-482

Wiki  457-468 Max Weber's Charisma : Comes from political structure.  Gesellschaft: generally translated as "community and society", are categories which were used by the German sociologist Ferdinand Tönnies in order to categorize social relationships into two types. The Gesellschaft is associated with modern society and rational self-interest, which weakens the traditional bonds of family and local community that typify the Gemeinschaft. Max Weber, a founding figure in sociology, also wrote extensively about the relationship between Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft. Weber wrote in direct response to Tönnies. Good Ship Lollipop ( YouTube ) by Shirley Temple. There are so many articles about Pynchon, but I found this one: “A Suspension Forever at the Hinge of Doubt”: The Reader-trap Of Bianca In Gravity’s Rainbow by Bernard Duyfhuizen ( source ). "The reader must engage the play of differance encoded in GR‘s textual signs to avoid falling into traps of prematu...

Suzanne Valadon

  She painted nudes, but it's kind of fun to see this photo of a woman in the nude French painting position, and she's not nude, and she's smoking a cigarette, like who cares.  Suzanne Valadon  (1865-1938): In 1894, Valadon became the first woman painter admitted to the Société Nationale des Beaux-Arts. She was also the mother of painter Maurice Utrillo . I was reading about the small town she was born in, and there's a chamber orchestra from there, and I ended up listening to this brass band ( spotify ). She is the model in  Dance at Bougival (1883), by Pierre-Auguste Renoir :