From: Lane
Category: Amis
Date: 9/2/99
Time: 11:41:45 PM
Remote Name: 24.48.53.48
from the first page i flipped to in 49:
She walked in on soft, elegant chaos, an impression of emanations, mutually interfering, from the sub-antennas of everybody's exposed nerve endings...She couldn't stop watching his eyes. They were bright black, surrounded by an incredible maze for studying intelligence in tears (77).
I've often thought that MA was well-schooled, and mightily maddened by Pynchon's sentence level prose and slicing syntax, even though he has denied being familiar w/Pynchon. Gravity's Rainbow is one of the only literary endeavors which one could read, for sheer enjoyment, by random sentence extraction--others: LF, Success, Lot 49, Ulysses, White Noise--it's def. a seperate breed of novel.