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Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow (Paperback, 2006, Penguin Classics)

Tyrone Slothrop, a GI in London in 1944, has a big problem. Whenever he gets …

Don’t tell anyone, but I’m starting to believe that my bookmark rubs off on the novel I’m reading. I’ve had a ticket of the „Joachim Ringelnatz Museum Cuxhaven“, which I visited on my last summer vacation, in my copy of Pynchon’s „Gravity’s Rainbow“ for a few weeks, and now, about 600 pages into the text, some of the action takes place in Cuxhaven. A coincidence? It gets even stranger: from the beginning there were some funny little poems in it, too. By the way, one of the main themes of the novel is paranoia... 🤔