23: In which meet die ganze kaputte Bande und/y la dotación enferma (Gravity’s Rainbow Episodes 3.6-3.10)

Well gang, we made it to our very own brennschluss point. Or at least we think we did? Join us for the thrilling first issue of *ROCKETMAN* and reencounter some old friends and some old, old friends.  Next time, *Gravity’s Rainbow* Episode 3.11, or pp. 403-440 in the U.S. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.  Support the show and get access to monthly bonus episodes at patreon.com/pynchonpals and follow us @pynchonpals.bsky.social.  For the month of July’s Patreon-exclusive bonus episode, we’re watching Merian C. Cooper’s *King Kong* (1933).  **Show Notes:** Explanation of Lucretius’ “swerve” by Simon Trépanier in the *Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy* (https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/lucretius/#Book2)  “Althusser’s Clinamen: Aleatory Materialism and Revolutionary Politics,” by Promise Li in *Meditations: Journal of the Marxist Literary Group* (https://mediationsjournal.org/articles/Aleatory\_Materialism)  “Scottish Commentary on the Worst Tackle in the History of Football by Boris Johnson - McKallaster,” via *YouTube* (https://youtu.be/0UYrLfxvfhM)  Excerpts from Roland Barthes’ *The Pleasure of the Text*, .pdf via The University of Pennsylvania (https://web.english.upenn.edu/~cavitch/pdf-library/Barthes\Pleasure\of\the\Text.pdf)  Content warnings: strong language, physical and sexual violence, racism, misogyny, antisemitism, xenophobia, genocide. \--- Featuring Patrick Fiorilli, Andrew Tillett, and Duri Long. Produced and edited by Patrick Fiorilli (www.patf.io and @patfio.bsky.social). Our theme music is “Horology,” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license on the album Polygondwanaland.