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reading gravity's rainbow, i really enjoy it. a fair bit of the references go over my head, i want to avoid using the pynchonwiki regardless. i really like pynchon's style of writing, takes you through very diverse images and scenes while still creating a cohesive whole. the

adenoid
scene was really cool, though i had trouble slotting it into a general purpose. i could not tell if it was an elaborate way of describing an actual event in the story (unlikely), a fictional event to illustrate pirate prentice's work (more likely), or if it doesn't really matter and it's just there for the fun of it. the cover of the edition i have reminds me of the cover of green day's album dookie, which i listened to a lot in middleschool. a good passage from the banana breakfast:

Now there grows among all the rooms, replacing the night's old smoke, alcohol and sweat, the fragile, musaceous odor of Breakfast: flowery, permeating, surprising, more than the colour of winter sunlight, taking over not so much through any brute pungency or volume as by the high intricacy to the weaving of its molecules, sharing the conjuror's secret by which - though it is not often Death is told so clearly to fuck off - the living genetic chains prove even labyrinthine enough to preserve some human face down ten or twenty generations... so the same assertion-through-structure allows this war morning's banana fragrance to meander, repossess, prevail.

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