Showing posts with label Symbolism. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Symbolism. Show all posts

09 September 2010

If You Only Read One Trans-Genre, WWII, Science-Fact-tion, Literary Heavyweight, Conspiracy-Thriller this Year...

Gravity's Rainbow (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)Make sure it has poetry about a man freezing his junk off with liquid oxygen:

The was a young man from Decatur
Who slept with a LOX generator
His balls and his prick
Froze solid real quick
And his asshole a little bit later

-T. Pynchon

While browsing the annals of twitter this morning I came across a List of twenty-six good reasons to read, (or reasons why it is bad not to read for all my pessimist friends). I figured that list qualifies as good a reason as any to (finally) tackle a thick little novel called Gravity’s Rainbow