The traditional BLCKDGRD Bigass Holy Day Pynchon's Birthday post, he is 88 today: I wouldn't be me without his novels, especially Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and double especially Against the Day. Here, pages 606-608 Bantam mass market 1974 edition Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon's main theme: But, if I'm riding through it, the Real Text, right now, if this is it... or if I passed it today somewhere in the devastation of Hamburg, breathing the ash-dust, missing it completely... if that the IG built on this site were not at all the final shape of it, but only an arrangement of fetishes, come-ons to call down special tools in the form of 8th AF bombers yes the "Allied" planes all would have been, ultimately, IG-built, by way of Director Krupp, through his English interlocks - the bombing was the exact industrial process of conversion, each release of energy placed exactly in space and time. each shockwave plotted in advance to bring precisely tonight's wreck into being thus decoding…
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