Thirty-Three: The X-Men Present Some History
Posted on04.07: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we look at episodes seventeen and eighteen of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow.
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Thirty-Two: My God, the English
Posted on04.06: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we look at episodes fifteen and sixteen of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow.
Thirty-One: Pseudo-Masochism
Posted on04.05: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we look at episodes thirteen and fourteen of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow.
Thirty: Shanty-Town in Toilet-Land
Posted on04.04: Gravity’s Rainbow In which our discussion of Gravity’s Rainbow continues as we examine episodes nine through twelve.
Twenty-Nine: Potential Props
Posted on04.03: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we continue our discussion of Gravity’s Rainbow with episodes five through eight.
Twenty-Eight: Welcome, Good Luck
Posted on04.02: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we kick off season four with the first four episodes of Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow. Note: For this season, when we refer to “episodes” we mean a section beginning with the seven squares.
Twenty-Six: Pynchon Jail
Posted on03.09: The Crying of Lot 49 A final capstone discussion of The Crying of Lot 49. In which we say everything there’s left to say…or at least we say a lot. Some of it may even bring some meaning to the text as a whole. Some of it might just wander around San Narciso all night pointing […]
Twenty-Five: Batman of the Soul
Posted on03.08: The Crying of Lot 49 In which we discuss the final chapter of The Crying of Lot 49. Oedipa, with the help of a Warfinger scholar, digs into the history of the Trystero. As the people and things in her life gradually fall away, she finds herself in a fugue. The last bit of her former […]
Twenty-Four: Reverse Detective
Posted on03.07: The Crying of Lot 49 In which we wrap up chapter five of The Crying of Lot 49. After a night spent wandering the streets of San Narciso and seeing the post-horn at nearly every turn, Oedipa encounters an old sailor who asks her to drop a letter into W.A.S.T.E. for him. She tails a deliveryman […]
Twenty-Three: Everybody Loves the Irish
Posted on03.06: The Crying of Lot 49 In which we talk about the first half of Chapter 5 of The Crying of Lot 49. Chapter 5 begins with Oedipa visiting John Nefastis and his homemade Maxwell’s Demon device. Afterward, she begins a night of peregrination, wandering from place to place, point to point, the muted post-horn always seeming […]
