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The modern notation of Newton's law involving G was introduced in the 1890s by C. V. Boys. The first implicit measurement with an accuracy within about 1% is attributed to Henry Cavendish in a 1798 experiment. [b] Definition [ edit ]

Gravity's Rainbow carries the dedication "For Richard Fariña". Pynchon had been a good friend of Fariña, a folk singer and novelist, since they had attended Cornell University together. Fariña had died in a motorcycle accident in 1966. It follows complaints from residents about the graffiti at Monkey Bridge and Kingsway Bridge, in Goole, which saw the council hire a street artist to paint bright murals honouring the Humber and nature respectively. Since they were introduced, there has been a significant drop-off in callouts for graffiti removal in the area.

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Levine, George Lewis, Mindful pleasures: essays on Thomas Pynchon, Boston: Little, Brown, 1976, ISBN 0-316-52230-9 Whilst graffiti is an appreciated art form, it is also considered a criminal act under the Criminal Damage Act 1971. If caught, offenders can be punished with an unlimited fine or even imprisonment.

Part 4 begins shortly after August 6, 1945, and covers the period up to September 14 of that same year; the day of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross, with extended analepses to Easter/ April Fool's weekend of 1945 and culminating in a prolepsis to 1970. The simple epigraphical quotation, "What?" is attributed to Richard M. Nixon, and was added after the galleys of the novel had been printed to insinuate the President's involvement in the unfolding Watergate scandal. [12] The original quotation for this section (in the advance reading copies of the book) was an excerpt from the lyrics to the Joni Mitchell song "Cactus Tree" ("She has brought them to her senses/They have laughed inside her laughter/Now she rallies her defenses/For she fears that one will ask her/For eternity/And she’s so busy being free"), so the change in quotation jumped a large cultural divide. To sit and read a long, complex novel from a half century ago, set in a period three additional decades earlier than that, written by a straight white dude with an abrasive intellectual flare, all of it strewn with arcane technical nomenclature and uber-hipster bonafides… well, to do all that is to do something deeply un-2023. Knives Out' director Rian Johnson explains Daniel Craig's 'Gravity's Rainbow' joke". www.sfgate.com. 6 December 2019 . Retrieved 2020-02-26. It’s no coincidence that an age rife with conspiracy theories is also a time when an unsettling amount of people willingly consent to authoritarianism. This is what Pynchon saw: in the absence of formerly monolithic institutions and belief systems, people will not only accept reasons supplied by Them, but they will actively seek them out, and embrace them like long lost loved ones. THESE MORTALS Reprinted in Mendelson, Edward (1986). "Gravity's Encyclopedia". In Bloom, Harold (ed.). Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow : Modern Critical Interpretations. New Haven: Chelsea House. pp.29–52.a b Almansi, p. 226: " piu importante romanzo americano del secondo dopoguerra, Gravity's Rainbow di Thomas Pynchon (romanzo mai pubblicato in Italia, con grande vergogna dell'editoria nazionale)." English translation: "most important American novel of the second post-war, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon (a novel never published in Italy, to the great shame of the national publishing industry)". Almansi's comment is from 1994. Gravity's Rainbow was translated and published in Italy in 1999. Mendelson, Edward (1976). "Gravity's Encyclopedia". In Levine, George; David Leverenz (eds.). Mindful Pleasures: Essays on Thomas Pynchon. Little, Brown. pp.161–95. In the many, many books and articles and essays on Gravity’s Rainbow, adjectives like comprehensive, encyclopedic, vast, all-encompassing, and exhaustive (also exhaust-ing) are regularly employed. “There is evidence,” the English critic Tony Tanner writes in his monograph on Pynchon, “of a whole range of knowledge of contemporary ‘specialised’ expertises—from mathematics, chemistry and ballistics, to classical music theory, film and comic strips.” Such an eclectic selection of subjects is itself impressive, but the way Pynchon feels at ease with them all is unusual. Casual and second-natured, like all true experts, he does not seem to flout his erudition, but merely to involuntarily reflect it. Pynchon didn’t simply research these topics; he commands them.