Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
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Read Professor Irwin Corey's acceptance speech for Pynchon's 1974 National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow.
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The Fool
"[T]he Bicycle Rider in the Sky [...] In the Tarot he is known as The Fool, but around the Zone here they call him Slick." (p.501)
"The scene itself must be read as a card: what is to come. Whatever has happened since to the figures in it [...] it is preserved, though it has no name, and, like The Fool, no agreed assignment in the deck." (p.724)
