The Momentum of Pynchon's Secret Formula: Gravity’s Rainbow’s Second Equation between Archival Sources and Fiction
Thomas Pynchon’s novel Gravity’s Rainbow (1973) sports three equations in mathematical notation, and the second of these has puzzled readers for 45 years: is Pynchon’s Second Equation real or made up? And what role does it have for interpretations of Gravity’s Rainbow? In this paper, we draw on scie...
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Open Library of Humanities
2018-02-01
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| Series: | Orbit: A Journal of American Literature |
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| Online Access: | https://orbit.openlibhums.org/article/id/486/ |