04.27: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we continue our discussion of Gravity’s Rainbow with a look at chapters 23, 24 and 25 of Book Three. Errata: For a while during this episode, Bo had a bad set-up that caused some extra noise in the recording.

04.26: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we continue our discussion of Gravity’s Rainbow with a look at chapters 20 and 21 of Book Three. Note: We intended to cover three chapters, as you’ll hear in the intro, but we only got to two due to time.

04.25: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we continue our discussion of Gravity’s Rainbow with a look at chapters 17, 18 and 19 of Book Three. Notes: Alan and Liam mention the philosopher Herbert Marcuse. Here’s some information about him.

04.24: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we continue our discussion of Gravity’s Rainbow with a look at chapters 14, 15 and 16 of Book Three.

04.23: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we continue our discussion of Gravity’s Rainbow with a look at chapters 12 and 13 of Book Three. As this episode covers the great Rossini/Beethoven debate that the novel has been hyping up for some time,

04.22: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we continue our discussion of Gravity’s Rainbow with a careful look at the second half of Book Three, Chapter Eleven – the Pökler chapter. Alan mentions The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse.

04.21: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we continue our discussion of Gravity’s Rainbow with a careful look at the first half of Book Three, Chapter Eleven – the Pökler chapter.  

04.20: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we continue our discussion of Book Three of Gravity’s Rainbow with a look at episodes eight through ten.

04.19: Gravity’s Rainbow In which we take a look at episodes six and seven of Book Three of Gravity’s Rainbow. The Tristan chord, which Alan mentions as the “magic chord” in Tristan und Isolde, is F, B, G#, and D#.

04.18: Gravity’s Rainbow In which, despite efforts by Them to stop us, we continue our work on Gravity’s Rainbow with a look at Book Three, episode five – the Tchitcherine episode. Notes: Here’s an example of Kyrgyz script.