TheBookchemist | Pynchon Fatigue? - Gravity's Rainbow #3 @TheBookchemist | Uploaded October 2018 | Updated October 2024, 4 hours ago.
The study on trauma mentioned in the video is Alan Gibbs' Contemporary American Trauma Narratives. You'll find it in the library of a college close to you, or you can get it on The Book Depository (yep I'm an affiliate):
bookdepository.com/book/9780748694075/?a_aid=TheBookchemist
The passages I quote in the video - pages are given from the Vintage 2013 edition; other editions will probably have to subtract a handful of pages.
p. 249:
But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice—guessed and refused to believe—that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chances, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the Rainbow, and they its children. . . .
pp. 284-5:
If any of the young engineers saw correspondence between the deep conservatism of Feedback and the kinds of lives they were coming to lead in the very process of embracing it, it got lost, or disguised [...]
p. 297:
The target property most often seemed to be strength—first among Plasticity's virtuous triad of Strength, Stability and Whiteness (Kraft, Standfestigkeit, Weiße: how often these were taken for Nazi graffiti, and indeed how indistinguishable they commonly were on the rain-brightened walls [...]
READING PROJECT'S SCHEDULE
All of these breaks, when they are not marked by the end of one of the novel's four parts, correspond to the last line or first line of a sub-chapter, so it shouldn't be too hard to locate them.
The page number on which each section ends is given. The letters close to the number indicate different editions.
VN: 2013 Vintage edition with multicolor silhouettes of rockets on the cover and red spine.
This edition has the SAME page layout as the 2000 Vintage edition with all the tiny characters and items drawn on the cover over a white field.
O: 1995 Vintage edition with collage of pin-ups, rockets and explosions on the cover.
This edition has the SAME page layout as the original 1973 Viking edition of the novel.
PD: 2005 Penguin Deluxe edition, black and white cover with the silhouette of a rocket.
Thanks to Richard and Hunter for the help with the page numbers!
- September 6th: Introduction.
- September 20th: 1/8: Frontispiece to "Their footprints filled with ice, and a little later they were taken out to sea." Page: VN 109; O 92; PD 94.
- October 4th: 2/8: From "In silence, hidden from her" to the end of part 1. Page: VN 211; O 177; PD 181.
- October 18th: 3/8: The entire part 2, Un Perm' au Casino Herman Goering. Page: VN 331; O 278; PD 283.
- November 1st: 4/8: From the beginning of part 3 to "hovering coyly over the pit of death..." Page: VN 455; O 383; PD 389.
- November 15th: 5/8: From "A soft night" to "So somebody has to tell you." Page: VN 561; O 472; PD 480.
- November 29th: 6/8: From "Halfway up the ladder" to the end of part 3. Page: VN 730; O 616; PD 629.
- December 13th: 7/8: From the beginning of Part 4 to "Streets." Page: VN 821; O 692; PD 706.
- December 27th: 8/8: From "Streets" to end of the book. Page: VN 902; O 760; PD 776.
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The study on trauma mentioned in the video is Alan Gibbs' Contemporary American Trauma Narratives. You'll find it in the library of a college close to you, or you can get it on The Book Depository (yep I'm an affiliate):
bookdepository.com/book/9780748694075/?a_aid=TheBookchemist
The passages I quote in the video - pages are given from the Vintage 2013 edition; other editions will probably have to subtract a handful of pages.
p. 249:
But it is a curve each of them feels, unmistakably. It is the parabola. They must have guessed, once or twice—guessed and refused to believe—that everything, always, collectively, had been moving toward that purified shape latent in the sky, that shape of no surprise, no second chances, no return. Yet they do move forever under it, reserved for its own black-and-white bad news certainly as if it were the Rainbow, and they its children. . . .
pp. 284-5:
If any of the young engineers saw correspondence between the deep conservatism of Feedback and the kinds of lives they were coming to lead in the very process of embracing it, it got lost, or disguised [...]
p. 297:
The target property most often seemed to be strength—first among Plasticity's virtuous triad of Strength, Stability and Whiteness (Kraft, Standfestigkeit, Weiße: how often these were taken for Nazi graffiti, and indeed how indistinguishable they commonly were on the rain-brightened walls [...]
READING PROJECT'S SCHEDULE
All of these breaks, when they are not marked by the end of one of the novel's four parts, correspond to the last line or first line of a sub-chapter, so it shouldn't be too hard to locate them.
The page number on which each section ends is given. The letters close to the number indicate different editions.
VN: 2013 Vintage edition with multicolor silhouettes of rockets on the cover and red spine.
This edition has the SAME page layout as the 2000 Vintage edition with all the tiny characters and items drawn on the cover over a white field.
O: 1995 Vintage edition with collage of pin-ups, rockets and explosions on the cover.
This edition has the SAME page layout as the original 1973 Viking edition of the novel.
PD: 2005 Penguin Deluxe edition, black and white cover with the silhouette of a rocket.
Thanks to Richard and Hunter for the help with the page numbers!
- September 6th: Introduction.
- September 20th: 1/8: Frontispiece to "Their footprints filled with ice, and a little later they were taken out to sea." Page: VN 109; O 92; PD 94.
- October 4th: 2/8: From "In silence, hidden from her" to the end of part 1. Page: VN 211; O 177; PD 181.
- October 18th: 3/8: The entire part 2, Un Perm' au Casino Herman Goering. Page: VN 331; O 278; PD 283.
- November 1st: 4/8: From the beginning of part 3 to "hovering coyly over the pit of death..." Page: VN 455; O 383; PD 389.
- November 15th: 5/8: From "A soft night" to "So somebody has to tell you." Page: VN 561; O 472; PD 480.
- November 29th: 6/8: From "Halfway up the ladder" to the end of part 3. Page: VN 730; O 616; PD 629.
- December 13th: 7/8: From the beginning of Part 4 to "Streets." Page: VN 821; O 692; PD 706.
- December 27th: 8/8: From "Streets" to end of the book. Page: VN 902; O 760; PD 776.
If you enjoy my reviews consider supporting the channel on Patreon:
patreon.com/TheBookchemist
Follow me on GoodReads!
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