Gravity's Rainbow: Difference between revisions

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American GI Tyrone Slothrop is hunted by a wing of British Scientists, media men, military personnel and lunatics called The White Visitation, after it comes to light that every time he has sex with a British woman, a V2 rocket hits the house within days and that his erections may be able to predict V2 attacks on London. Slothrop, addled by justified paranoia, goes AWOL and, along with dozens of other characters, hunts for the truth behind a top secret German rocket known as the Schwarzgerät or '00000', while being sidetracked by movie producers, Berlin drug dealers, and an affair with a witch. Meanwhile a Russian marine sets off to hunt down and kill his black half-brother, who is currently leading his platoon around Europe towards a racial suicide, and various characters form an inept Counterforce to the novel's conspiracy networks, along with about thirty other subplots.

* [[Designated Hero]]: Slothrop who spends his entire quest on various sidetracks.

* [[Does This Remind You of Anything]]: The hunting of Dodos to extinction<ref>By Katje's great-something Grandfather</ref> and the <s>Nazi</s> Imperial German genocide of Hereros in <s>South Africa</s> Deutsch-Südwestafrika (now Namibia) are detailed instead of the Holocaust.

* [[Flash Forward]]: To [[The Seventies|1970s]] Hollywood.

* [[Freud Was Right]]: Barely a page goes by without a mention of penises, breasts, or vaginas, either symbolically or straight out.