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Layers of mess on Slothrop’s desk pg 18-19 echo the chaotic enumeration of the junk drawer in Ulysses. Pg 26 gives the best line since the first sentence: the one Word that rips apart the day, and pg 30 spectacularly compares church steeples to launching rockets. #gravitysrainbow #thomaspynchon
November 19, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Layers of mess on Slothrop’s desk pg 18-19 echo the chaotic enumeration of the junk drawer in Ulysses. Pg 26 gives the best line since the first sentence: the one Word that rips apart the day, and pg 30 spectacularly compares church steeples to launching rockets. #gravitysrainbow #thomaspynchon
Bananas despite rations and the explosion of banana-based food is a joke on 3+ levels: reinforcing questions of war and imperialism, echoing manna/quail in Exodus & Numbers, double/triple entendres linking the banana, the rocket, and Priapus, pg 9, 11 #gravitysrainbow #pynchon
November 18, 2025 at 5:25 AM
Bananas despite rations and the explosion of banana-based food is a joke on 3+ levels: reinforcing questions of war and imperialism, echoing manna/quail in Exodus & Numbers, double/triple entendres linking the banana, the rocket, and Priapus, pg 9, 11 #gravitysrainbow #pynchon
Her own life was as cold as an attic with a north-facing window, and boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart. (1.7)
The list of qualities Emma imagines in her former classmates’ husbands is one of these webs. #flauberttogether
The list of qualities Emma imagines in her former classmates’ husbands is one of these webs. #flauberttogether
July 23, 2025 at 4:53 AM
Her own life was as cold as an attic with a north-facing window, and boredom, that silent spider, was spinning its web in the darkness in every corner of her heart. (1.7)
The list of qualities Emma imagines in her former classmates’ husbands is one of these webs. #flauberttogether
The list of qualities Emma imagines in her former classmates’ husbands is one of these webs. #flauberttogether
“She could not convince herself that the calm life she was living was the happiness of which she had dreamed.” Brutal contrast between Emma’s perception of their marriage/life vs the ardent sensations for Charles: “the universe did not extend beyond her silky underskirt.” 1.5-1.6 #flauberttogether
July 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
“She could not convince herself that the calm life she was living was the happiness of which she had dreamed.” Brutal contrast between Emma’s perception of their marriage/life vs the ardent sensations for Charles: “the universe did not extend beyond her silky underskirt.” 1.5-1.6 #flauberttogether
“Shirts bulged from the chest like breastplates,” at the wedding, one of many brilliant images, along with the detail of gentlemen unhitching carriages.
Shade from our narrator: “Charles was not a wit by nature, he had not been brilliant during the wedding festivities.” (I.4) #flauberttogether
Shade from our narrator: “Charles was not a wit by nature, he had not been brilliant during the wedding festivities.” (I.4) #flauberttogether
July 20, 2025 at 9:23 PM
“Shirts bulged from the chest like breastplates,” at the wedding, one of many brilliant images, along with the detail of gentlemen unhitching carriages.
Shade from our narrator: “Charles was not a wit by nature, he had not been brilliant during the wedding festivities.” (I.4) #flauberttogether
Shade from our narrator: “Charles was not a wit by nature, he had not been brilliant during the wedding festivities.” (I.4) #flauberttogether
Emma Rouault before she marries Bovary: “sometimes half closing her lids, her gaze drowned in boredom, her thoughts wandering.” (Davis, pg 20)
Will marriage to the doctor provide her with a different outlet from life on the farm? I.3 #flauberttogether
Will marriage to the doctor provide her with a different outlet from life on the farm? I.3 #flauberttogether
July 19, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Emma Rouault before she marries Bovary: “sometimes half closing her lids, her gaze drowned in boredom, her thoughts wandering.” (Davis, pg 20)
Will marriage to the doctor provide her with a different outlet from life on the farm? I.3 #flauberttogether
Will marriage to the doctor provide her with a different outlet from life on the farm? I.3 #flauberttogether
Could Charles Bovary’s daydream of doubling memories on the ride to Les Bertaux have been an explicit influence on Proust?
Emma’s imperfections are introduced alongside her beauty: “Yet her hand was not beautiful . . . too long and without soft inflections in its contours.” #flauberttogether
Emma’s imperfections are introduced alongside her beauty: “Yet her hand was not beautiful . . . too long and without soft inflections in its contours.” #flauberttogether
July 19, 2025 at 3:17 AM
Could Charles Bovary’s daydream of doubling memories on the ride to Les Bertaux have been an explicit influence on Proust?
Emma’s imperfections are introduced alongside her beauty: “Yet her hand was not beautiful . . . too long and without soft inflections in its contours.” #flauberttogether
Emma’s imperfections are introduced alongside her beauty: “Yet her hand was not beautiful . . . too long and without soft inflections in its contours.” #flauberttogether
Charles Bovary discovering a “precious assertion of his freedom” and “access to forbidden pleasures” in tavern dominoes and “a joy that was almost sensual” in the tavern doorknob is marvelous foreshadowing. An opening from repression in the first few pages! I.1 #flauberttogether
July 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM
Charles Bovary discovering a “precious assertion of his freedom” and “access to forbidden pleasures” in tavern dominoes and “a joy that was almost sensual” in the tavern doorknob is marvelous foreshadowing. An opening from repression in the first few pages! I.1 #flauberttogether