Two things to think about for the next week or two --
1. Your comment about the English Civil War vis a vis that great parody of Jacobean drama -- btw, you might enjoy watching Alex Cox's film of *The Revengers Tragedy* as a semi-version of what old Tom's thinking about -- makes me think of how invested almost all the novels are in an apocalyptic view of history. It's all about the come undone, as we wait just-before at the end of at least the first three novels. (Something may change with *Vineland* in this regard.) Worth trying to work through, esp for *GR*.
2. I also think you should spend a little time each week on the web, starting with thomaspynchon.com, & thinking about how these novels lend themselves to cyberculture. Oedipa's vision of the circuit always strikes me as a prophetic dream of the post-90s internet.
I also want you to find a good web image of the post-horn & add it to this site somewhere.
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