I dont get it

i dont get it

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Read it again

Gravity's Rainbow kind of feels like an evolving organism as it works through the narrative. The first two chapters are reasonably straightforward as a narrative matter, "In the Zone" starts to extend the narrative from a sequence of "on the ground" occurrences into a much more disjointed and theoretical set of observations, and the final chapter seems to be taking the logic of the third chapter to an extreme conclusion.

There seem to be two important things going on with GR's story that confuse the fuck out of people:

-nonlinear time
-some kind of post-Cartesian geography

I forgot to mark the page, but there is a relatively quick passage in the last chapter where the arc of the V2 rocket is described as a section of a toroid instead of a simple arc. Ie, its path already existed before it was fired, has always existed, and could have been observed at any point with the right observer.

I'm guessing Pynchon got a bit loose with the details, but the whole thing seems to be structured in that manner. A toroidal map of "time" which individual observers can only see or describe segmentally, even though they are attempting to move beyond those limits.

It's an actual "high concept" high-concept novel.

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The toroid is a great representation of the schematic of time itself.
Imagine going around one; you're in a circle, infinite in its degrees theoretically, the space between numbers, tilting right or left in any direction, able to revert back and forth in an infinite number of ways.

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so you haven't read it

Read the whole book recently.