No worries from me on the slower pace. The only thing I'd say about it is to acknowledge that it's a fairly long-term commitment we're making here... at this rate we'll finish... a long time from now.
Maybe you can take it easier on yourself. These posts (including this one) are excellently written and really thoughtful. Maybe for some of the future chapters you can summarize the bare minimum information that a first time reader would need to know: who's narrating the section, what their current situation is in terms of time and place, and any extratextual references mentioned in Weisenburger or the Pynchon wiki that you find to be particularly salient?
So to be completely honest, I still will probably manage to hit one every week or two (already have next week's ready) - though with the length and complexity of future chapters, I may just break it down into slightly shorter chunks like I did with this one or I may just, like you said, lower the intensity overall. I hope to maintain this level of depth, but yeah, if I do begin slowing down enough to where it's only one per month (which, again, I don't foresee happening unless something goes down in my life) then I will likely do as you suggest.
Much appreciated. I'm mostly trying to give myself leeway in case something happens. I do believe they will still come out in a 1-2 week time frame though!
Lol. Well I write 2-3k words every week with a full time job so it's not like I can cover every single aspect of Gravity's Rainbow. This isn't a scholarly work meant to elucidate everything. You could say "I'm surprised you don't mention ___" about any topic in the work that you find most interest in. I just write about where my interests lie.
“Shit, money, and the Word” linked by paper and mapped (bottom -> top) to parts of the human body (anus, hands, mouth). Burroughs’ Asshole Who Could Talk taking on some new resonance for me.
No worries from me on the slower pace. The only thing I'd say about it is to acknowledge that it's a fairly long-term commitment we're making here... at this rate we'll finish... a long time from now.
Maybe you can take it easier on yourself. These posts (including this one) are excellently written and really thoughtful. Maybe for some of the future chapters you can summarize the bare minimum information that a first time reader would need to know: who's narrating the section, what their current situation is in terms of time and place, and any extratextual references mentioned in Weisenburger or the Pynchon wiki that you find to be particularly salient?
So to be completely honest, I still will probably manage to hit one every week or two (already have next week's ready) - though with the length and complexity of future chapters, I may just break it down into slightly shorter chunks like I did with this one or I may just, like you said, lower the intensity overall. I hope to maintain this level of depth, but yeah, if I do begin slowing down enough to where it's only one per month (which, again, I don't foresee happening unless something goes down in my life) then I will likely do as you suggest.
Thanks for the kind word!
I just appreciate this project, so thank you 👍 I'm happy to take the posts as they come 👍
Much appreciated. I'm mostly trying to give myself leeway in case something happens. I do believe they will still come out in a 1-2 week time frame though!
The constant to variable thing is a calculus joke. When you integrate a constant, you get a variable.
Right but I do think even his jokes (most of them, probably not all of them) have some meaning/purpose.
idk integration shows up constantly throughout the book. From what I can tell it's a metaphor for some kind of mystical process
very surprised that you don't mention mysticism or thermodynamics in your series
Lol. Well I write 2-3k words every week with a full time job so it's not like I can cover every single aspect of Gravity's Rainbow. This isn't a scholarly work meant to elucidate everything. You could say "I'm surprised you don't mention ___" about any topic in the work that you find most interest in. I just write about where my interests lie.
“Shit, money, and the Word” linked by paper and mapped (bottom -> top) to parts of the human body (anus, hands, mouth). Burroughs’ Asshole Who Could Talk taking on some new resonance for me.
Here’s a little piece of Pynchon family history I found recently, not super relevant thematically but interesting nonetheless— https://www.berfrois.com/2013/04/the-black-dog-w-h-c-pynchon/