>mfw i just now understood the opening of Gravity's Rainbow

>>8437498
Isn't it just Pirate dreaming or using his dream ability?

>>8437527
No it's literally just a quote from Finnegans Wake

It's Pynchon's way of telling a joke

>>8437532
? I don't remember that

>>8437574
Don't you remember the episode where Pynchon and Joyce can't stop finishing each others sentences?

>>8437527
>>8437532
"A screaming comes across the sky..."

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

>>8437633
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.

>>8437652
i wish there was a way to let you know you're not worth replying to without actually replying, but here (You) go

>>8437686
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 anon a favor.

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

>>8437710
>(you)

>>8437710
Did you actually read either

>>8437498
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."

>>8437498
Will reading Gravity's Rainbow make me better at humor and comedy?

>>8437498
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>>8437498
Kinda want some McDonald's right now

>>8437865
Resist that impulse

>>8437871
But anon...

>>8437750
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.

>>8438000
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

>>8438188
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.

>>8438188
Mistake? It's the perfect book for your nightstand.. fuck off, plebmaster.

>>8438221
Literally nowhere has this ever been said.
Please cite your bullshit.

>>8437532
>a quote from Finnegans Wake
Bullshit.

>>8438222
>the perfect book for your nightstand
This guy knows. He also knows how to hit those trips.