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Now try Gravity’s Rainbow.
No one's read it. But a hell of a title.
Then as it turns out, a current tech challenge in astronomy concerning gravitational waves, is to parse them through a detector analogous to a prism, to break these waves up into component parts, not unlike a gravitational rainbow.
So it turns out to be not just a poetic flight of fancy, it may describe something that might actually exist. The Universe is always stranger and more wondrous that we can imagine at any given point in time.
I'm working through it right now and it has been a real slog. Although it's gotten easier around 1/3 of the way through.
I shall not mention "Feersum Endjinn" ¹ to them, because it exists and might hurt people. Oops.
¹ Iain M. Banks was in a funny mood. :)
Fuck that fucking book. Fucking love Banks, but fuck him for that fucking mind ripping thing.
Any Pynchon really. Or David Foster Wallace
"A screaming comes across the sky..."
Oh yeah, this is gonna be good!
"bananas [...] bananas [...] bananas [...] bananas [...]"
WTF?