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Now try Gravity’s Rainbow.
No one's read it. But a hell of a title.
Then as it turns out, a current tech challenge in astronomy concerning gravitational waves, is to parse them through a detector analogous to a prism, to break these waves up into component parts, not unlike a gravitational rainbow.
So it turns out to be not just a poetic flight of fancy, it may describe something that might actually exist. The Universe is always stranger and more wondrous that we can imagine at any given point in time.
I shall not mention "Feersum Endjinn" ¹ to them, because it exists and might hurt people. Oops.
¹ Iain M. Banks was in a funny mood. :)
Fuck that fucking book. Fucking love Banks, but fuck him for that fucking mind ripping thing.
I'm working through it right now and it has been a real slog. Although it's gotten easier around 1/3 of the way through.
Any Pynchon really. Or David Foster Wallace
"A screaming comes across the sky..."
Oh yeah, this is gonna be good!
"bananas [...] bananas [...] bananas [...] bananas [...]"
WTF?