Well, one never knows but, while surfing around the Web, I stumbled upon Paul Mackin's page wherein he displays images from an August 1931 comic containing a novella called The Kenosha Kid, by Forbes Parkhill. Here's the extract:
"Hatred and dread hung over the town like a pall. Pard turned against pard; every man suspected his neighbor. And to solve that mystery, The Kenosha Kid — Robinhood of straights and flushes — plays his most thrilling game for a desperation jackpot."
Pards and paranoia ... seems a pretty sure bet, for what it's worth.
Welcome to the Searchable Web-Guide to Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (ISBN: 0140188592). Tim Ware is the curator. If you would like to contribute in any way, please get in touch. What's missing will eventually be there, although, sure enough, completeness will remain completely out of reach.
Read Professor Irwin Corey'sacceptance speech for Pynchon's 1974 National Book Award for Gravity's Rainbow.
Also, have a look at Douglas Kløvedal Lannark's exhaustive documenting of "love" in Gravity's Rainbow.
An excellent resource for Gravity's Rainbow is Steve Weisenburger's A Gravity's Rainbow Companion and, of the many excellent books of criticism, you'll find Thomas Moore's The Style of Connectedness: Gravity's Rainbow and Thomas Pynchon and Kathryn Hume's Pynchon's Mythology well worth reading. If you can locate Richard Sasuly's IG Farben, long out of print, you'll find that it fills in much about that monster-concern as his book is considered to have been a major source of the IG-Farben-related information in GR. Enjoy.
At the Whitney
Pynchon-inspired Artwork at the Whitney -- March 11-May 30, 2004. Whitney Biennial, NYC. Zak Smith's "Pictures Showing What Happens on Each Page Of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow" on exhibit.
The page numbers refer to the original Viking editions (1973), paperback and hardback, and to the Penguin edition (1987). To get the Bantam edition (1974) page numbers, multiply the page numbers by 1.15 for the first third of the book, 1.16 for the second third, and 1.17 for the last third. This is approximate but should work.
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