What is the rainbow in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow (1973)?

The rainbow in Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow is the arc a rocket makes from launch to target.

The novel is set in World War II Europe at the time German V-2 rockets were falling on London.

What does the Lone Ranger’s title Kemo Sabe really mean? As used by Tonto on the radio show "The Lone Ranger," Kemo Sabe was intended to mean "faithful friend." But in the Apache tongue it means "white shirt." In Navajo it means "soggy…
Where was Jay Gatsby supposed to have gone to school? Jay Gatsby was supposed to have gone to Oxford. In Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) the gangster Wolfsheim said Gatsby was an "Oggsford" man.
In what battle did Sir Philip Sidney suffer a mortal wound? Sir Philip Sidney suffered a mortal wound in The Battle of Zutphen in 1586. The author of Arcadia (1590) was fighting in the Netherlands against the Spanish. He was shot in the thigh…
When did John Berryman commit suicide? John Berryman commit suicide on January 7, 1972. He jumped off a bridge into the Mississippi River. He was fifty-eight.
What is Tess’s name before she becomes Tess of the d’Urbervilles? Tess's name before she becomes Tess of the d'Urbervilles is Tess Durbeyfield, daughter of Jack Durbeyfield, a carter. In the 1891 novel by Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, she eventually becomes the…
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