Pynchon,Thomas

Pynchon, Thomas R. Introduction to Chemical Physics. 3d rev. ed. Philadelphia Van Nostrand, 1881. 

Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity s Rainbow. New York Viking, 1974. 

Pynchon, Thomas. 1973. Gravity s Rainbow. The Viking Press, N.Y. Pp. 760. XP... 

Dodge, Jim. Stone junction an alchemical pot-boiler with an introduction by Thomas Pynchon. Rebel Inc, 1997. 

In this sense a supermolecule is defined as a large entity composed of molecular subunits which could be applied equally to a covalently linked polymer as to an assembly held together by weaker interactions. It is in this context that Thomas Pynchon used the word metaphorically in 1973 when describing a character in Gravity s Rainbow as ... 

Richard Sasuly, ig Farben (New York, 1947), p. 216. Sasuly s book had a curious afterlife. Thomas Pynchon quoted passages from it virtually word for word in his novel of 1973, Gravity s Rainbow. 

Beck, U. 1992, Risk Society Towards a New Modernity, trans. M. Ritter, Sage, London. Black, J.D. 1980, Probing a post-Romantic palaeontology Thomas Pynchon s Gravity s Rainbow , Boundary, 2, 8ii, p. 233. 

Seed, D. 1988, The Fictional Labyrinths of Thomas Pynchon, Macmillan, Basingstoke. 

The first was a novel published in 1973 by Thomas Pynchon, Gravity s rainbow, which I read shortly after it was published and from which I get part of the title for my talk this afternoon. Even those who have read the book may well have forgotten the general story, so I will go over that very briefly. 

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