The Kirghiz Light - Thomas Pynchon Wiki | Gravity's Rainbow
WEBDec 10, 2006 · "Tchitcherine will reach the Kirghiz Light, but not his birth. He is no aqyn, and his heart was never ready. He will see It just before dawn [...] he will hardly be able to remember It.
Talk:The Kirghiz Light - Thomas Pynchon Wiki | Gravity's Rainbow
WEBOK, I asked the Kirghiz, she says there was some strange event involving a ray of light from heaven in the last couple of years, but absolutely nothing specifically Kirghiz about it, and certainly nothing historical.
I - Thomas Pynchon Wiki | Gravity's Rainbow
WEBApr 29, 2010 · The name Imipolex, in addition to being a pun (imitation pole), obviously stems from a combination of "imido" with a near-reversal of "explode", possibly in analogy with Igelit (IG Farben's PVC) and Igamid (IG Farben's nylon resin). IG Farben's polymers often had alphabetical suffixes (Buna S, Igelit G, Igamid A).
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WEBMay 9, 2010 · This mausoleum on the southern bank of the Yamuna (Jumna) River, outside Agra in India was built by the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan in memory of his wife, Arjumand Banu Begam, also called Mumtaz Mahal ("Chosen One of the Palace"), of which the name Taj Mahal is a corruption. It took 22 years to complete; 637.
K - Thomas Pynchon Wiki | Gravity's Rainbow
WEBMar 11, 2020 · Kirghiz "It was a land of drunken nostalgia for the cities, silent Kirghiz riding, endless tremors in the earth" 338; "Young and old Kirghiz came in from the plain, smelling of horses, sour milk and weed-smoke" 338; "Dzaqyp Qulan's father was killed during the 1916 rising [...] one of about 100 fleeing Kirghiz massacred one evening [...]
Earth in Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon Wiki
WEB"For the Kirghiz Light took my eyes/Now I sense all Earth like a baby." 358 " There's the smell of earth." 366 "Earth has turned over in its sleep, and the tropics are reversed...." 373 " But anything with Earth in it was politically safe--Earth, Soil, Folk...a code." 395 "'We'll all use it, someday, to leave the earth. To transcend.'" 400
Songs in Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon Wiki
WEBDec 10, 2011 · The aim of this page is to serve as a database to which interested readers can refer in their attempts to decipher Pynchon's songs, and ultimately to better understand his novels. If a connection to an existing song is made, that song can be listed directly following the Pynchon lyric.
Baseball - Thomas Pynchon Wiki | Gravity's Rainbow
WEBResponding to the Great Basebalk Controversy..... > In GR, Pynchon notes that two boobs off seeking the Kirghiz Light have the > same vulnerability to record-breakers as baseball, a sport also > well-spidered with white suggestions of the sinister."
All pages - Thomas Pynchon Wiki | Gravity's Rainbow
WEBThe Kirghiz Light; Thomas Pynchon; Tyrone Slothrop; U; Ursula; V; V. Squared; Von Braun's Epigram; W; Weaving the Web; Weisenburger's Companion, 2nd Edition; Weisenburger's Companion to Gravity's Rainbow; Weissmann's Tarot; William Slothrop; XYZ; Zipf's Principle of Least Effort
Difference between revisions of "Songs in Gravity's Rainbow"
WEBThe place of the black rock will find you. + + But if you would not be born, + Then stay with your warm red fire, +