#gravitys rainbow

The closest person we have to being able to do Gravitys Rainbow on screen is Takashi Miike and I take no pride in saying this. But it's true.

Someone on Reddit said that Gravity’s Rainbow is an inverse grail myth and low key im in love with that. Like there are so many connections- the S-gerat as the inverse of the grail, the phallic spear, and the spear is what wounded the fisher king in the first place. The Tchitcherine-Enzian connection that mirrors the Parcival-Feirefiz connection (and also makes Slothrop a brother to them, since he too is a child of the Rocket in some ways and has his own associations with blackness). Slothrops constant run-ins with maidens like the classic grail myths. The general emphasis on Germanic folklore. But the religious angle of the Grail quest is shattered by the fact that everyone seems to have their own private God now (Pointsman’s Pavlov, Enzian’s Rocket, Slothrop’s Them). And Slothrop, rather than finding the Rocket, dissolves into total madness (although maybe that is finding the Rocket? Avoiding the Mammon of the Raketen-Stat by embracing detonation and dispersal?) IMO there’s a definite theme of constant, cyclical flow between opposites, a sort of dispersal-then-reformation that constantly occurs. A perpetual union of opposites that results in explosion. Temporary syzygy. Very Wasteland. Grrrr i love this book