{"id":121,"date":"2004-12-07T09:50:59","date_gmt":"2004-12-07T09:50:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2004\/12\/07\/the-gravitys-rainbow-deathmarch\/"},"modified":"2004-12-07T09:50:59","modified_gmt":"2004-12-07T09:50:59","slug":"the-gravitys-rainbow-deathmarch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/capellman.com\/cecil1215b\/2004\/12\/07\/the-gravitys-rainbow-deathmarch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I was talking to one of my brothers last night, and we agreed that this Pynchon book<\/b><\/a> has bedeviled us long enough. Me, I’ve started Gravity’s Rainbow at least 3 times. And let’s just say I’m very familiar with the first 30 pages. OK, sentences. OK, consonants. Hell, I’ve never even finished The Crying of Lot 49 and that’s a damn pamphlet.
\nSo we made a pact. We made a death pact. You know, minus the death. 50 pages a week, starting the first week in January. No stopping till we reach the other side. Then we thought: hey! There must be other folks out there who’ve been similarly confounded. Let’s see if we can gather together a tribe of like-minded long-suffers and tackle this beast en masse. Thus was born The Gravity’s Rainbow Deathmarch<\/b>.
\nWe’d like to use this site as a forum, post an open thread once a week for shared thoughts, comfort. Mebbe I’ll even spring for some exciting incredibly cheap end-of-journey prizes for them what make it all the way through, and manage to check in each week, all depending on how many people are interested.
\nSo that’s the shpiel. All are welcome — friends, foes, strangers, passersby. If you’re reading this, and if you’re interested in joining, drop a comment here, or send me an email<\/b><\/a>. We’ll work out the details in the next couple of weeks.
\nI hear the clamor of boots, the clatter of coffee cups, the straightening of glasses. Today we order paperbacks and shuffle through dusty shelves for old unread college copies. For tomorrow we ride!
\n-Cecil
\nupdate: if you’re buying a copy, I’m told one handsome option is this swank Penguin edition<\/b><\/a>. That’s the one I’ll be picking up, fwiw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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