Byron - A Reading from Gravity's Rainbow (1973), T. Pynchon

[Anfernee3000]

Byron the Bulb is immortal!

[derspringer]

Thanks again ... these readings are areal treat.

[ThrowbackTheHomebo]

Your readings have spurred me to dig out my tattered copy of the book - open randomly, and... it's the Rathenau seance with Peter Sachsa as medium.

Look out, here comes my 1st reading ;)

[luisabebe2]

one of my favorite fragments too :) thank you for posting, it's nice to see there are other Pynchon lovers out there- you read very well too... by the way- for Thomas Pynchon if you ever read this :) you are a GENIUS -guess you already knew that must be heavenly to have soooo much imagination always going on and on and on...a perpetual state of dreaming a perpetual challenge - I can't even dream that well //just got my diploma -it's about absence and plenitude and Blake and GR.

[FunnyDigestion]

What I think makes his narrative style so unique is how his imagination is always scrounging around the REAL, observable, inhabited human world for stuff to use. He takes real things from the world-- places, historical events, scientific concepts-- and sets them loose in the fiction. Anything in the world can come into the story at anytime. And you can see it with every sentence.