Gravity's Rainbow

My 5 highlights

• The floor is filthy lino, there are no windows: the electric light is yellow, cheap, merciless.

• exhausted women with more children than it seems could belong to anyone,

• Pirate in the lavatory stands pissing, without a thought in his head.

• ACHTUNG is Allied Clearing House, Technical Units, Northern Germany.

• “Cherokee” comes wailing up from the dance floor below, over the hi-hat, the string bass, the thousand sets of feet where moving rose lights suggest not pale Harvard boys and their dates, but a lotta dolled-up redskins. The song playing is one more lie about white crimes.