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...mystery genre often seems an anachronism in twentieth century literature. We are not used to seeing all the pieces fit into place, all the ambiguities resolved, all the motivations defined. Even in such a vast, intertwining maze as Thomas Pynchon's new novel Gravity's Rainbow, we find dozens of false leads mixed among all the character recurrences and evolving relationships...
...swagging numbles and a skin so gouged by fissures, cracks and graffiti that it is on the verge of turning into a landscape. The hierarchy of human to animal to vegetable to mineral is abolished; the popeyed homunculi who scurry like moles through his landscapes or rear up, delicately rainbow-tinted like decaying fungi, in paintings such as Extravagant Lady, 1954 (opposite), are mere coalescences in human form. They are not people but slices of life, and in this perversely microscopic sense Dubuffet is a realist painter. The flat "absurdity" of his gaze on the fallen objects of this world...
Competing with an Earth Day Rally at the other side of the Common, union spokesmen described what they called the "hazardous safety conditions in Shell refineries which cause air pollution and "rainbow lung"--a lung disorder caused by chemicals that affects workers in the refineries...
...Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon...
...keep him in booze and food for another three months in the hills. But I once ran into him by the Post Office on Mt. Auburn Street, and he was real nice, even remembering how I'd gotten him to autograph a copy of Wrong End of the Rainbow so I could give it to a friend. He also sat still to let me take some pictures. Tom Rush sings other people's songs well, and I sure can't fault him for that. Because it's just enough to keep him in booze, food, and New Hampshire, an unbeatable...