Not much of a story, I'm afraid. I read Gravity's Rainbow when I was 19 or 20 and it made a devastating impression on me. It gave me such a thrashing that I just couldn't look at anything with the same sense of cold detachment that I was used to, everything felt so overburdened with history and dual meanings and misunderstandings and an absolute "correctness". I felt like I had just been woken up, I suppose. Anyway, Tyrone Slothrop plays a number of rather important roles in the novel, and I always felt terribly connected to the poor guy, for better or worse. Usually, I go with SlothropAnAbreaction because in a way, that's what it was, an abreaction, plus, I never wanted to simply take the name alone, but here I figured, what the hell, I'll try wearing the nose cone of a rocket as a hat and an old rug as a cape.
Probably makes it easier for people to read anyway.
Not much of a story, I'm afraid. I read Gravity's Rainbow when I was 19 or 20 and it made a devastating impression on me. It gave me such a thrashing that I just couldn't look at anything with the same sense of cold detachment that I was used to, everything felt so overburdened with history and dual meanings and misunderstandings and an absolute "correctness". I felt like I had just been woken up, I suppose. Anyway, Tyrone Slothrop plays a number of rather important roles in the novel, and I always felt terribly connected to the poor guy, for better or worse. Usually, I go with SlothropAnAbreaction because in a way, that's what it was, an abreaction, plus, I never wanted to simply take the name alone, but here I figured, what the hell, I'll try wearing the nose cone of a rocket as a hat and an old rug as a cape.
Probably makes it easier for people to read anyway.