The Zone

A visual companion to
Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

01

The Braid

Plotline intensities scored across seventy-three episodes.

Coming soon
02

Language

Foreign-language passages, vocabulary registers, and song segments.

Coming soon
03

Glossary

A reading dictionary for the rocket terms, foreign words, institutions, names, and recurring phrases I keep needing close at hand.

04

Scenes

Ten high-intensity episodes with modal and recurrence profiles.

Coming soon
05

Dissolution

Slothrop's textual presence across the second half.

Coming soon
06

Network

A co-presence map of named characters across episodes and the novel's four parts.

Coming soon

Seventy-three episodes by word count

Part 1Part 2Part 3Part 4

Each bar is one episode, scaled by word count. Hover, tap, or focus an episode bar for details.

Notes

  1. Episode boundaries follow the conventional section breaks in most editions. Word counts are derived from a normalised plain-text transcription.
  2. Work in progress. Structure subject to revision.