Happy Peter Pinguid Day, commemorating the fateful confrontation of March 9, 1864!

"Attack, retaliation, both projectiles deep-sixed forever and the Pacific rolls on."

–O–<|]

Inherent Ice

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Thomas #Pynchon called it the UBI, the Universal Binding Ingredient. You know it as cream of mushroom soup, the primordial, mass-produced colloid like bleached cranberry sauce, with the blandness of a thousand white suburbs.

Even JRR #Tolkien spun a verse marveling at its wonders.

One recipe to rule them all,
One mortar to grind them,
One ingredient to coat them all
And in a casserole bind them.

Ballard's Drowned World is 1962.

So far it gives me strong Bradbury, Pynchon, and Delaney feels.

Ray and JG were contemporary and I think it shows. In a good way!

It reminds me a lot of Dhalgren (1975), which I may rereread next because I kept losing interest carting around an enormous paperback that has since disappeared. No gay sex yet tho.

I won't reread Gravity's Rainbow (1973) again (I think), there's others I want to cover. Still have that kilo of a tome.

This is all probably somehow the fault of Paul Bowles.

@bookstodon #JGBallard #DrownedWorld #Pynchon #GravitysRainbow #Bradbury #PaulBowles

Been re-reading Gravity’s Rainbow again after many years. In the meantime I have read all of #Pynchon ‘s other books. I must say I had forgotten how much work it is. While it has some of his best writing, it is also overall his most disjointed. #bookstodon #fiction

WRT the mildly disappointing Knives Out; can anyone help me parse the odd Pynchon ref? The film’s more like Lot 49 than Gravity’s Rainbow. #Pynchon #KnivesOut #gratuitousPoMoRef