Template:RQ:Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow

1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN:

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Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Thomas Pynchon's work Gravity's Rainbow (1st US edition), published by Viking Press in 1973 in New York. Note that the subdivisions in this work are commonly called "episodes" rather than "chapters", but on this template they are called chapters. Also note that there are no actual number or text divisions for the episodes, rather, in the 1st edition they are separated by a series of 7 square sprockets, and in later editions they are separated by 1 sprocket. The episodes shall therefore be numbered sequentially, even though there's no such numbering in the book. The online version of this work is available at the Internet Archive:

• Gravity's Rainbow.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |chapter= - the number of the chapter quoted from.
• |2= or |page=; or |pages= - the page number(s) quoted from.
• |text= or |passage= - the passage to be quoted.

Examples

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Pynchon Gravity's Rainbow|page=155|passage="It's true," Vanya now, "look at the forms of capitalist expression. '''Pornographies''' of love, erotic love, Christian love, boy-and-his-dog, '''pornographies''' of sunsets, '''pornographies''' of killing, and '''pornographies''' of deduction — ahh, that sigh when we guess the murderer — all these novels, these films and songs and they lull us with, they're approaches, more comfortable and less so, to that Absolute Comfort." A pause to allow Rudi a quick and sour grin, "The self-induced orgasm."}}
• Result:
  • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 1: Beyond the Zero, page 155:

    "It's true," Vanya now, "look at the forms of capitalist expression. Pornographies of love, erotic love, Christian love, boy-and-his-dog, pornographies of sunsets, pornographies of killing, and pornographies of deduction — ahh, that sigh when we guess the murderer — all these novels, these films and songs and they lull us with, they're approaches, more comfortable and less so, to that Absolute Comfort." A pause to allow Rudi a quick and sour grin, "The self-induced orgasm."