A visual companion to
Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
An episode-by-episode braid of the novel, tracing how the strands cross, drop out, and return.
The novel's babel of foreign tongues, songs, and specialised registers, each belonging to someone.
Coming soonA reading dictionary for the rocket terms, foreign words, institutions, names, and recurring phrases I keep needing close at hand.
Twelve passages that readers carry out of the novel, each with a close reading.
Coming soonHow Slothrop's name, aliases, and companions thin out unevenly across the second half.
Coming soonA co-presence map of named characters across episodes and the novel's four parts.
Coming soonEach bar is one episode, scaled by word count. Hover, tap, or focus an episode bar for details. The novel's mass concentrates in the long episodes of Part 3, where Slothrop fragments and the Zone absorbs everything.
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