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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Interface
"Halfway out now from under the covers, she hangs, between two worlds" 53
"the interface--the cortex of Dog Vanya's brain--is changing, in any number of ways" 79
"on through the awful interface of V-E Day" 80
"the spectrum between, trapped among frequencies of their own voices and words" 110
"hunting across the zero between waking and sleep" 119
"words are only an eye-twitch from the things they stand for" 100
"centuries passing like the empurpled clouds, darkening an infinitesimal layer of varnish between [Katje] and Pirate" 106
"caught in the spectrum between, trapped among frequencies of their own voices and words" 110
"Together they are a long skin interface" 121
Roger had "seen himself a point on a moving wavefront, propagating through sterile history [...] But Jessica was the breaking of the wave. Suddenly there was a beach [...] Past and future stopped at the beach" 126
"Kevin Spectro [...] saw the cortex as an interface organ" 141-142
"Pointsman ought to be seeking the answer at the interface [...] on the cortex of Lieutenant Slothrop" 144
"an interface between the worlds, a sensitive" 146
"Those souls across the interface, those we call the dead" 147
"Millions of us, changed to interface, to horn, and no feeling, and silence" 148
"we do have a home! [...] Not up at the interface. Back in the CNS!" 148
"the probity of men charged with acting as interface between what he is supposed to be and himself" 153
"How can you understanding them without treating both sides of the wall of death with the same scientific approach?" 153
The moment of assassination is the moment when power and the ignorance of power come together"164
"The interface between coal and steel is coal-tar" 166
" paper and plaster barriers, hard interfaces to be pierced, for [waterbugs/cockroaches] are agents of unification" 173
"floundering in the swamp between two worlds" 217; "among the stoneswept hair of the last white guardians at the lastp stepoff into the black, into the radiant" 218
"she has crossed a threshold, found a branching of the time" 219
"The great cusp--green equinox and turning" 236
"the specific shape whose center of gravity is the Brennschluss Point? [...] There's only one. It is most likely an interface between one order of things and another" 302
"the Brockengespenstphänomen is confined to dawn's slender interface" 331
"this transition from silk to bare skin to suspender" 396
"only pasteboard images of the Listening Enemy left between him and the wet sky" 433-34; "the boundary layer" 452, 736
"Right here, at the interface, the air will be rising [...] Does no one recognize what enslavement gravity is till he reaches the interface of the thunder?" 455
"the violet-bleeding interfaces of Double and Triple Protar" 484
"with pencil words on your page only delta-t from the things they stand for" 510
"Fungus Pygmies who breed in the tanks at the interface between fuel and water bottom [...] Not much fun for them down here at the Interface, competing with the bacteria" 523
"We can see the Interface from here. It's a long rainbow" 524
this awful branching: the two possibilities already beginning to fly apart" 524
"Could he have been the fork in the road America never took, the singular point she jumped the wrong way from?" 556
"the shore which is never quite sea nor quite sand" 567
"[Nora's] wheeling freaks, her seers, teleporters, astral travelers and tragic human interfaces all know of her visitation" 639
"Here is where the paths divided" 644
"cusp between scientific theory and fact," 652
"points of no return" 659
"a discontinuity in the curve of life [...] the delta-t across the point" 664
"the ruinous interface between the visible Lager and the invisible SS" 666
"A4. . .concealed behind an uncrossable wall that separated real pain and terror from summoned deliverer." 666
"As long as the Anubis kept moving, there was no need to choose" 667
"Isn't this an "interface" here? a meeting surface for two worlds [...] a screen of words between himself and the numinous" 668
"[Thanatz] has to see what it will take to get Blicero across the interface" 668
"a suspension forever at the hinge of doubt" 672
"It does annoy him that he can be so divided, so perfectly unable to come down on one sdide or another" 676-77
"Dungannon, Virginia, Bristol, Tennessee Asheville or Franklin, North Carolina, Apalachicola, Florida [...] Murdo Mackenzie, Kansas [...] all towns located on the borders of Time Zones" 695
"All the other towns along the interface are on Central [Time]. The western towns just read off are on Central, while the other towns along that interface are on Mountain" 696
"even below the outer layer of Imipolex, down at the interface with What lies just beneath" 700
"he's only real at the points of decision. The time between doesn't matter" 702
"glass surface-tension between the two levels" 729-30
"It may be possible to ride the interface, like gliding at the edge of a thunderstorm" 731
"gold-brown medium between you" 735
"[Ludwig & Thanatz] have crept away anyhow, to a piece of the interface" 737
