Gravity's Rainbow is also a tribute to Richard Fariña's "Been Down So Long It Looks Like up To Me". Pynchon and Richard Fariña were friends. The two are very li

Gravity's Rainbow is also a tribute to Richard Fariña's "Been Down So Long It Looks Like up To Me". Pynchon and Richard Fariña were friends. The two are very linked conceptually. BDSLILLUTM is decidedly about paranoia. Beware girls with green knee socks.