"Pynchon is a really interesting writer kind of coming out of the 60s, … the counterculture. And Gravity's Rainbow came out in 74, I believe. And it was this notoriously unreadable, long, unreadable kind of thing that's full of songs that people are supposed to sing. It has mathematical equations in it. And it's all about the blitz in London, the bombing of London in World War II. And it's wonderful."]]>