Abstract
At one point in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, Leni Pökier tells her husband that the relation of events to one another in time need not be seen in terms of linear cause and effect; instead, she tells him, “It all goes along together. Parallel, not series. Metaphor. Signs and symptoms. Mapping on to different coordinate systems, I don't know…” (Pynchon 159). Though her husband fails to appreciate her insight, Leni's intuition of an alternate, metaphorical paradigm for historical process is a revisioning of history—one to which Pynchon repeatedly returns in Gravity's Rainbow and one, I will argue in this essay, that other postmodernist novelists also embed in their fiction.
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