Tag: Milton Gloaming

• Sherry

  

  No one thus far has drunk sherry in a Pynchon novel that I have noticed. But sherry’s ghost does linger by a window during the Rathenau séance early in Gravity’s Rainbow. Milton Gloaming is telling Jessica about his statistical analysis of the paranormal investigations; Jessica’s “mad young gentleman” Roger is off in another room with […]

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  September 27, 2020

  Gravity’s Rainbow, Wine

  Fortified wine, Jessica Swanlake, Milton Gloaming, Pirate Prentice, Roger Mexico, Spain