Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

Don't miss this amazing video about Gravity's Rainbow winning the National Book Award, including a recording of Professor Irwin Corey's hilarious acceptance speech.

Read Professor Irwin Corey's acceptance speech for Pynchon's 1974 National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow.

Also, have a look at Douglas Kløvedal Lannark's exhaustive documenting of "love" in Gravity's Rainbow.

Rotwang's Promise

From Fritz Lang's Metropolis

"I have created a machine in the image of man, that never tires or makes a mistake."

"Isn't it worth the loss of a hand to have created the workers of the future — the machine men?"

"Give me another 24 hours and I'll bring you a machine which no one will be able to tell from a human being."

- Rotwang, the Inventor