Discussions of Pavlov bookend interdepartmental conspiracy and pseudo-domesticity. Meanwhile Slothrop, like Benny Profane and Herbert Stencil before him, ventures into the sewer. Makes you miss the alligators!

Next time—I misspoke in the episode!—Gravity’s Rainbow Episodes 1.14-1.16 (not through 1.17), or pp. 94-139 in the U.S. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.

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Show Notes:

“Lavarand,” the physical cryptographically secure pseudorandom number generator I couldn’t remember in the episode. It’s lavalamps!

Related, “Generating Random Numbers With A Fish Tank,” by Tom Nardi via Hackaday.

Scans of “The Kenosha Kid,” by Forbes Parkhill via Archive.org.

Our previous episode on “Mondaugen’s Story” in V.

“How to pay for genocide: Namibian victims of German colonialism want a say,” by Shola Lawal via Al Jazeera.

“Namibia’s Blue Book of record: Part one,” by Catherine Sofianos via Mail & Guardian.

“Little Albert study,” entry by Ronna F. Dillon, PhD and Amber D. Dillon via Ebsco

Ariadne entry via the Encyclopedia Britannica

Content warnings: strong language, physical and sexual violence, racism, misogyny, xenophobia, genocide, animal abuse, pedophilia.

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Featuring Patrick Fiorilli, Andrew Tillett, and Duri Long.

Produced and edited by Patrick Fiorilli (www.patf.io and @patfio.bsky.social).

Our theme music is “Horology,” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license on the album Polygondwanaland.

Well, we’ve arrived at The Big One. Or, The First Big One, anyways. Join us -- again or for the first time -- as we puzzle out plots, diagram arcane organizational structures, and go long on bananas.

Next time, Gravity’s Rainbow Episodes 1.8-1.13, or pp. 48-94 in the U.S. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.

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Show Notes:

“Banana Breakfast,” by Tom Pynchon’s Liquor Cabinet

“There Will Be Bananas,” by NPR’s Throughline podcast

“Vintage Original Chiquita Banana 1940's Commercial Ads Complete Series!,” via YouTube

“Bananas Don’t Taste Like They Used To. Here’s Why,” by Brandon Summers-Miller via Epicurious

The Morrison shelter and other Battle of Britain era protections via the Royal Air Force Museum

“Some Things that ‘Happen’ (More or Less) in Gravity’s Rainbow,” by Michael Davitt Bell. The simplest and most useful quick reference for the goings on in Gravity’s Rainbow we’ve found so far. Spoiler warning, obviously, for things we and maybe you haven’t read yet—and, less obviously, for references to things that will be (but aren’t yet) important.

Content warnings: strong language, physical and sexual violence, racism, misogyny.

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Featuring Patrick Fiorilli, Andrew Tillett, and Duri Long.

Produced and edited by Patrick Fiorilli (www.patf.io and @patfio.bsky.social).

Our theme music is “Horology,” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license on the album Polygondwanaland.

Angels, dark and light, descend on Southern California, and we bid adieu to Arnold Snarb, I mean, Edna Mosh.

Next time, Gravity’s Rainbow sections 1.1 through 1.9, or pp. 1-60 in the U.S. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.

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Show Notes:

“The Simple Art of Murder,” by Raymond Chandler, online e-book via Faded Page.

Thomas Pyncon’s introduction to Richard Fariña’s Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, via pynchon.pomona.edu.

Content warnings: strong language, physical and sexual violence, misogyny, suicide, antisemitism, pedophilia.

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Featuring Patrick Fiorilli, Andrew Tillett, and Duri Long.

Produced and edited by Patrick Fiorilli (www.patf.io and @patfio.bsky.social).

Our theme music is “Horology,” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license on the album Polygondwanaland.