There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made-at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.

Thomas Pynchon

Gravity's Rainbow

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Management Decisions and choices

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Thomas Pynchon

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Gravity's Rainbow

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Novel

Language

English

Time

1973 1970s 20th century

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Novelist Writer

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United States

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Pynchon, Thomas. Gravity's Rainbow. Viking Press, 1973.

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