< gravity's rainbow >

[rayheinrich]

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...................................< gravity's rainbow >
...............................
...............................no colors here
...............................just a rainbow-curved line
...............................of white rocket exhaust
...............................drawn across the November sky
...............................tracing the ballistic trajectory
...............................of a German V2 rocket as it
...............................crosses the English channel
...............................and heads for London with its
...............................2000 pound warhead traveling at
...............................four times the speed of sound
...............................arriving silently at the Woolworth's
...............................department store in New Cross
...............................which explodes with a blinding
...............................flash and an enormous roar
...............................followed by a dense cloud of
...............................smoke and debris casting a
...............................shadow over the body parts
...............................of 168 shoppers who have queued
...............................outside hoping to buy saucepans
...............................made scarce by war rationing
...............................
.........................................- - -

[billy]

i'll read this a few more times. it's excellent. for some reason i wanted to laugh at the last 4 lines they were extremely ominous and touched my funny nerve

[Brownlie]

Gravity's rainbow is a hard read, I made an earnest attempt to read the novel in highschool. Basically, the missle is phallic, there's obviously more to the book than that but thats what stuck with me. Pynchon's prose definately borders on poetry. War is awful and seems to be a peculiar phenomenon that applies to the human animal.

[rowens]

I stole that book from the library. So I could read it. I kept it three years, then sent it back. By then I was in another state.

[rayheinrich]

Gravity's rainbow is a hard read, I made an earnest attempt to read the novel in highschool. Basically, the missle is phallic, there's obviously more to the book than that but thats what stuck with me. Pynchon's prose definately borders on poetry. War is awful and seems to be a peculiar phenomenon that applies to the human animal.

Yes. I was making my third attempt at reading the damned thing recently (last two were many years ago)
and was looking up info on V2 rockets when I came across an article on the Woolworth's store destruction
and I just couldn't resist writing this. I DO love Pynchon's ironically abstract prose. This time around
I'm given up any attempt at global understanding and am just letting it pour over me like, as you said: poetry.
I reached my intellectual limit, it seems, with the Crying of Lot 49. Loved that one.

[Keith]

...................................< gravity's rainbow >
...............................
...............................no colors here
...............................just a rainbow-curved line
...............................of white rocket exhaust
...............................drawn across the November sky
...............................tracing the ballistic trajectory
...............................of a German V2 rocket as it
...............................crosses the English channel
...............................and heads for London with its
...............................2000 pound warhead traveling at
...............................four times the speed of sound
...............................arriving silently at the Woolworth's
...............................department store in New Cross
...............................which explodes with a blinding
...............................flash and an enormous roar
...............................followed by a dense cloud of
...............................smoke and debris casting a
...............................shadow over the body parts
...............................of 168 shoppers who have queued
...............................outside hoping to buy saucepans
...............................made scarce by war rationing
...............................
.........................................- - -

Really enjoyed this piece, it scans and reads very well, particularly like the way you land the missile. Thanks for the read TOMH.

[rayheinrich]

Really enjoyed this piece, it scans and reads very well, particularly like the way you land the missile. Thanks for the read TOMH.

Alternate title:

< the vast power and advanced technology of the German Third Reich gloriously succeeds
in destroying a line of London householders waiting to buy saucepans >

[Keith]

Really enjoyed this piece, it scans and reads very well, particularly like the way you land the missile. Thanks for the read TOMH.

Alternate title:

< the vast power and advanced technology of the German Third Reich gloriously succeeds
in destroying a line of London householders waiting to buy saucepans >

Yes, the leaps in technology from that time are still killing innocent people, some holding saucepans no doubt.

[rayheinrich]

< the vast power and advanced technology of the German Third Reich gloriously succeeds
in destroying a line of London householders waiting to buy saucepans >

Yes, the leaps in technology from that time are still killing innocent people, some holding saucepans no doubt.