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Jewmanji posted:I'm about 200 pages into Gravity's Rainbow, which also happens to be my first Pynchon. I was startled to realize just how nakedly Infinite Jest borrows from Gravity's Rainbow in style, form, aesthetics, scope, ambition. I thought Infinite Jest was a little more... sui generis I guess. But it's much clearer to me now that it had at least one major antecedent. How far into GR are you now? There is a scene in “in the zone” that seems to have a pretty direct analogue in IJ.
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Jewmanji posted:I got a few sections into Section 2 (The Herman Goering Casino) and then gave up. I haven't stopped thinking about it though, I think I just needed a few weeks off and will dive back in. It definitely feels a bit like homework. I bounced off it a few times too. It’s definitely a grind to get through in places, but it was definitely worth it to me to finish it finally. I did a hybrid ‘read’ on it — I’d listen to the audiobook for some of it and then read some of it myself. Good luck!
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