15: In which a real live rocket launches (Gravity’s Rainbow Episodes 1.8-1.13)
Notes de l’épisode
Discussions of Pavlov bookend interdepartmental conspiracy and pseudo-domesticity. Meanwhile Slothrop, like Benny Profane and Herbert Stencil before him, ventures into the sewer. Makes you miss the alligators!
Next time—I misspoke in the episode!—Gravity’s Rainbow Episodes 1.14-1.16 (not through 1.17), or pp. 94-139 in the U.S. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.
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Show Notes:
“Lavarand,” the physical cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator I couldn’t remember in the episode. It’s lavalamps!
Related, “Generating Random Numbers With A Fish Tank,” by Tom Nardi via Hackaday.
Scans of “The Kenosha Kid,” by Forbes Parkhill via Archive.org.
Our previous episode on “Mondaugen’s Story” in V.
“How to pay for genocide: Namibian victims of German colonialism want a say,” by Shola Lawal via Al Jazeera.
“Namibia’s Blue Book of record: Part one,” by Catherine Sofianos via Mail & Guardian.
“Little Albert study,” entry by Ronna F. Dillon, PhD and Amber D. Dillon via Ebsco
Ariadne entry via the Encyclopedia Britannica
Content warnings: strong language, physical and sexual violence, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, genocide, animal abuse, pedophilia.
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