Is Slothrop a ghost? Is gravity time travel? Is Joe Biden a fan of the show? What’s in The Zone? These questions and more will not be answered… yet.

Next time, Gravity’s Rainbow Episodes 3.1 and 3.2, or pp. 285-319 in the U.S. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. 

Support the show and get access to monthly bonus episodes at patreon.com/pynchonpals and follow us @pynchonpals.bsky.social. 

For the month of June’s Patreon-exclusive bonus episode we’re watching Robert Zemeckis’ Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988). 

Show Notes:

“Tantive IV” via Wookiepedia (https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Tantive_IV) 

Brian Daley’s website (https://brian-daley.com/BrianDaley-books.htm) 

“Gusev” by Anton Chekhov, translated by Constance Garnett, via Project Gutenberg (https://www.gutenberg.org/files/57333/57333-h/57333-h.htm#Jlink2H_4_0009) 

Joe Biden quotes Thomas Pynchon (https://youtu.be/u0zog-s3UBU) 

Orson Welles’ “Cuckoo Clock” monologue from The Third Man (https://youtu.be/cydkTy6GmFA)  

“Ya Got Trouble” from The Music Man (1962) (https://youtu.be/LI_Oe-jtgdI) 

“Tlön, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius,” by Jorge Luis Borges, .pdf via University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (http://faculty.las.illinois.edu/rrushing/242/ewExternalFiles/Borges.pdf) 

Content warnings: strong language, physical and sexual violence, racism, misogyny, genocide.

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Featuring Patrick Fiorilli, Andrew Tillett, and Duri Long.

Produced and edited by Patrick Fiorilli (www.patf.io and @patfio.bsky.social).

Our theme music is “Horology,” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license on the album Polygondwanaland.