04.31: Gravity’s Rainbow

In which be begin the final section of Gravity’s Rainbow – The Counterforce! This episode covers the first two chapters of Book Four.

Alan offers an explanation of the musical concept called the tone row here’s the Wikipedia article. If you would like a little more detail, .

If you want to listen to Joni Mitchell’s “Cactus Tree,” lines from which were in the original Gravity’s Rainbow galleys as the epigraph for The Counterforce, you can do that here.