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A note scrawled into the legal pad I keep on my desk, where I write work tasks, movies to see, grocery lists, etc:
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW IS NOT A BOOK ABOUT WW2. It's a book about how one generation sold & fucked & bombed & looted their own children.
It's there in Slothrop (which I won't spoil), in Katje who seems not to have any personal agency whatsoever, in Bianca and Gottfried, in Enzian's genocide childhood, in Jessica's childlike inability to remember the world before the war, in all the many it ...more
GRAVITY'S RAINBOW IS NOT A BOOK ABOUT WW2. It's a book about how one generation sold & fucked & bombed & looted their own children.
It's there in Slothrop (which I won't spoil), in Katje who seems not to have any personal agency whatsoever, in Bianca and Gottfried, in Enzian's genocide childhood, in Jessica's childlike inability to remember the world before the war, in all the many it ...more
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