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<div id="field">368/407 - '''the field-of-two Rachel and Profane had set up'''</div> | <div id="field">368/407 - '''the field-of-two Rachel and Profane had set up'''</div> | ||
:"A courageous scientific imagination was needed to realize that not the behavior of bodies, but the behavior of something between them, that is, the field, may be essential for ordering and understanding events." - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein Albert Einstein] | :"A courageous scientific imagination was needed to realize that not the behavior of bodies, but the behavior of something between them, that is, the field, may be essential for ordering and understanding events." - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein Albert Einstein] | ||
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| + | The social scientist Kurt Lewin is famous for the concept of field theory in human relations. "The most fundamental construct for Lewin is, of course, | ||
| + | that of "field". All behavior (including action, thinking, wishing, striving, valuing, achieving, etc.) is conceived of as a change of some state of a field in a given unit of time (dx/dt). In treating individual | ||
| + | psychology, the field with which the scientist must deal is the "life space" of the individual. [p.xi, Foreword, ''Field Theory of Social Science'', Kurt Lewin, Harper Torchbooks, 1951.]<br> | ||
| + | dt will resonate with all readers of ''Gravity's Rainbow'', of course. | ||
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| + | <div id="radiation">377/418 - '''Hiroshima'''</div> | ||
| + | Hiroshima is the largest city on the Honshu island of Japan. It was the first city to be hit with a nuclear weapon. This occurred on August 6, 1945 at 8:15 am. The character Hiroshima tells Pig about radiation. | ||
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| + | 380 - '''you always hurt the one you love'''<br /> | ||
| + | "You Always Hurt the One You Love", words by Allan Roberts, words by Doris Fisher, first recorded by the Mills Brothers in 1944. | ||
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| + | 385 - '''Bad boys rape our young girls behind victory garden walls (or "but Violet gives willingly").'''<br /> | ||
| + | Vulgar mnemonic for colors encoding digits: Black (0), Brown (1), Red (2), Orange (3), Yellow (4), Green (5), Blue (6), Violet (7), Gray (8), White (9). | ||
<div id="venusberg">379/420 - '''the Venusbergs'''</div> | <div id="venusberg">379/420 - '''the Venusbergs'''</div> | ||
Venusberg is the Germanic name for the underground abode of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_%28mythology%29 Venus], the goddess of love. Venus attained great prominence in the Middle Ages as the pagan, earthly power opposed to the spiritual power of the Church. The knight [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannh%C3%A4user Tannhäuser] spent a year there worshipping Venus. | Venusberg is the Germanic name for the underground abode of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venus_%28mythology%29 Venus], the goddess of love. Venus attained great prominence in the Middle Ages as the pagan, earthly power opposed to the spiritual power of the Church. The knight [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tannh%C3%A4user Tannhäuser] spent a year there worshipping Venus. | ||
| + | <div id="Profane appeared and hung his nose over the edge of the roof">???/433 - '''Profane appeared and hung his nose over the edge of the roof'''</div> | ||
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| + | Profane looks just like Kilroy here. Later in the novel Kilroy will be described as a schlemiel (484) making a comparison between Kilroy and Profane. | ||
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Latest revision as of 11:05, 17 March 2021
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- "A courageous scientific imagination was needed to realize that not the behavior of bodies, but the behavior of something between them, that is, the field, may be essential for ordering and understanding events." - Albert Einstein
The social scientist Kurt Lewin is famous for the concept of field theory in human relations. "The most fundamental construct for Lewin is, of course,
that of "field". All behavior (including action, thinking, wishing, striving, valuing, achieving, etc.) is conceived of as a change of some state of a field in a given unit of time (dx/dt). In treating individual
psychology, the field with which the scientist must deal is the "life space" of the individual. [p.xi, Foreword, Field Theory of Social Science, Kurt Lewin, Harper Torchbooks, 1951.]
dt will resonate with all readers of Gravity's Rainbow, of course.
Hiroshima is the largest city on the Honshu island of Japan. It was the first city to be hit with a nuclear weapon. This occurred on August 6, 1945 at 8:15 am. The character Hiroshima tells Pig about radiation.
380 - you always hurt the one you love
"You Always Hurt the One You Love", words by Allan Roberts, words by Doris Fisher, first recorded by the Mills Brothers in 1944.
385 - Bad boys rape our young girls behind victory garden walls (or "but Violet gives willingly").
Vulgar mnemonic for colors encoding digits: Black (0), Brown (1), Red (2), Orange (3), Yellow (4), Green (5), Blue (6), Violet (7), Gray (8), White (9).
Venusberg is the Germanic name for the underground abode of Venus, the goddess of love. Venus attained great prominence in the Middle Ages as the pagan, earthly power opposed to the spiritual power of the Church. The knight Tannhäuser spent a year there worshipping Venus.
Profane looks just like Kilroy here. Later in the novel Kilroy will be described as a schlemiel (484) making a comparison between Kilroy and Profane.
| Chapter 1 In which Benny Profane, a schlemihl and human yo-yo, gets to an apocheir 9/1 |
Chapter 2 The Whole Sick Crew 44/39 |
Chapter 3 In which Stencil, a quick-change artist, does eight impersonations 61/59 |
Chapter 4 In which Esther gets a nose job 95/97 |
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| Chapter 5 In which Stencil nearly goes West with an alligator 111/115 |
Chapter 6 In which Profane returns to street level 134/141 |
Chapter 7 She hangs on the western wall 152/161 |
Chapter 8 In which Rachel gets her yo-yo back, Roony sings a song, and Stencil calls on Bloody Chiclitz 213/229 |
| Chapter 9 Mondaugen's story 229/247 |
Chapter 10 In which various sets of young people get together 280/305 |
Chapter 11 Confessions of Fausto Maijstral 304/333 |
Chapter 12 In which things are not so amusing 347/385 |
| Chapter 13 In which the yo-yo string is revealed as a state of mind 367/407 |
Chapter 14 V. in love 393/437 |
Chapter 15 Sahha 415/461 |
Chapter 16 Valletta 424/471 |
| Epilogue, 1919 456/507 |
