Booker, M. Keith, Techniques of Subversion in Modern Literature: Transgression, Abjection, and the Carnivalesque, University Press of Florida, 1991, ISBN 0-8130-1065-9 Knives Out' director Rian Johnson explains Daniel Craig's 'Gravity's Rainbow' joke". www.sfgate.com. 6 December 2019 . Retrieved 2020-02-26.

Do you think gravity causes problems, or is it useful? What would happen if we didn’t have gravity? Sissman, L. E. (1973) Hieronymus and Robert Bosch: The Art of Thomas Pynchon. The New Yorker 49, 19 May 1973, pp.138–40. Howard, Gerald (Summer 2005). "Pynchon from A to V: Gerald Howard on Gravity's Rainbow". Bookforum. Summer | 2005: 6–7. Part 4 begins shortly after August 6, 1945, and covers the period up to September 14 of that same year; the day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, with extended analepses to Easter/ April Fool's weekend of 1945 and culminating in a prolepsis to 1970. The simple epigraphical quotation, "What?" is attributed to Richard M. Nixon, and was added after the galleys of the novel had been printed to insinuate the President's involvement in the unfolding Watergate scandal. [12] The original quotation for this section (in the advance reading copies of the book) was an excerpt from the lyrics to the Joni Mitchell song "Cactus Tree" ("She has brought them to her senses/They have laughed inside her laughter/Now she rallies her defenses/For she fears that one will ask her/For eternity/And she’s so busy being free"), so the change in quotation jumped a large cultural divide.

Review of Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow – Richard Poirier 1973". thomaspynchon.com . Retrieved 2020-10-29. Three hotspots have been identified by East Riding Council's Safe Communities team after consulting with people living in the affected areas. In a bid to prevent antisocial behaviour, the authority is planning to have murals painted to cover up the graffiti in each location. Generally, street art is figurative and commissioned by an individual or collective, whilst graffiti is usually lettering and always illegal. Pöhlmann, Sascha. " Gravity's Rainbow". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 October 2006, accessed 17 March 2013. Beyond that—and there is so much more—I’ll let Pynchon himself do the work for me, from his (allegedly) self-written plot description of his 2006 novel Against the Day: Meanwhile, Thomas Pynchon is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they’re doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange and weird sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-fact occurrences occur. Maybe it’s not the world, but with a minor adjustment or two it’s what the world might be.

Throw ups’ (more intricate tags, often made up of two or more colours), ‘dubs’ (London style of graffiti completed in silver or chrome paint) and ‘wildstyles’ (more elaborate versions of throw ups) show the artist’s creative flair and artistic ability. I never really showed interest in art, it was something that I didn’t mind doing, but I wouldn’t have considered myself an ‘artist’. It was when I changed schools and I had to get on the overground everyday, that’s when I started noticing graffiti more. I had friends who’d started and one night I went with them. I put up one tag and next thing I knew, I was addicted,” he told us.a b Almansi, p. 226: " piu importante romanzo americano del secondo dopoguerra, Gravity's Rainbow di Thomas Pynchon (romanzo mai pubblicato in Italia, con grande vergogna dell'editoria nazionale)." English translation: "most important American novel of the second post-war, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (a novel never published in Italy, to the great shame of the national publishing industry)". Almansi's comment is from 1994. Gravity's Rainbow was translated and published in Italy in 1999. In 1999 a painting by the American artist Fred Tomaselli, inspired by the novel and titled Gravity's Rainbow (Large), was added to the permanent collection at the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City. [38] Film [ edit ] Pat Benatar released a 1993 album called Gravity's Rainbow after reading Thomas Pynchon's novel. [ citation needed] " Gravity's Rainbow" is a song by the British band Klaxons, from the album Myths of the Near Future (2007). In Newton's law, it is the proportionality constant connecting the gravitational force between two bodies with the product of their masses and the inverse square of their distance. In the Einstein field equations, it quantifies the relation between the geometry of spacetime and the energy–momentum tensor (also referred to as the stress–energy tensor).

Schwab, Gabriele, Subjects Without Selves: Transitional Texts in Modern Fiction, Harvard University Press,1994, ISBN 0-674-85381-4 Weisenburger, Steven, A Gravity's Rainbow Companion, University of Georgia Press, 1988, ISBN 0-8203-1026-3 This image of Wernher von Braun is referred to in the narrative, giving a quite exact timeframe for some events in the book. Style [ edit ] Reprinted in Mendelson, Edward (1986). "Gravity's Encyclopedia". In Bloom, Harold (ed.). Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow : Modern Critical Interpretations. New Haven: Chelsea House. pp.29–52.

The modern, urban graffiti we know today has spread to industrialised cities across the world since its emergence in 1960s Philadelphia. It is now a permanent feature on the surfaces of London, and is probably the art form we see most in day-to-day life. Traversing a wide range of knowledge, Gravity's Rainbow crosses boundaries between high and low culture, between literary propriety and profanity, and between science and speculative metaphysics. It shared the 1974 US National Book Award for Fiction with A Crown of Feathers and Other Stories by Isaac Bashevis Singer. [1] Although selected by the Pulitzer Prize jury on fiction for the 1974 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the Pulitzer Advisory Board was offended by its content, some of which was described as "'unreadable,' 'turgid,' 'overwritten' and in parts 'obscene' ". [2] No Pulitzer Prize was awarded for fiction that year. [2] [3] The novel was nominated for the 1973 Nebula Award for Best Novel. [4]