20: In which Patrick uncovers the Pynchon-Star Wars connection (Gravity’s Rainbow Episodes 2.6-2.8)
Show notes
Is Slothrop a ghost? Is gravity time travel? Is Joe Biden a fan of the show? What’s in The Zone? These questions and more will not be answered… yet.
Next time, Gravity’s Rainbow Episodes 3.1 and 3.2, or pp. 285-319 in the U.S. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.
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For the month of June’s Patreon-exclusive bonus episode we’re watching Robert Zemeckis’ Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).
Show Notes:
“Tantive IV” via Wookiepedia (https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Tantive_IV)
Brian Daley’s website (https://brian-daley.com/BrianDaley-books.htm)
“Gusev” by Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, via Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/57333/57333-h/57333-h.htm#Jlink2H_4_0009)
Joe Biden quotes Thomas Pynchon (https://youtu.be/u0zog-s3UBU)
Orson Welles’ “Cuckoo Clock” monologue from The Third Man (https://youtu.be/cydkTy6GmFA)
“Ya Got Trouble” from The Music Man (1962) (https://youtu.be/LI_Oe-jtgdI)
“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” by Jorge Luis Borges, .pdf via University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (http://faculty.las.illinois.edu/rrushing/242/ewExternalFiles/Borges.pdf)
Content warnings: strong language, physical and sexual violence, racism, misogyny, genocide.
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Featuring Patrick Fiorilli, Andrew Tillett, and Duri Long.
Produced and edited by Patrick Fiorilli (www.patf.io and @patfio.bsky.social).
Our theme music is “Horology,” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license on the album Polygondwanaland.