Empire! Torture! Manipulation! Control! Quite the book, and quite the episode.

David and Seth return for another episode on Gravity’s Rainbow and ‘knot’ into some of the many concepts Pynchon plays with to uncover what this strange novel is about.

How does one read this groundbreaking postmodern novel Thomas Pynchon? How does one read it twice? Or thrice? David and guest Pynchonite, Seth, share some ideas.

Unusual narrative techniques, metaphysical implications, symbolic deaths, co-existing interpretations, and a fall from grace.