Throsp, Corydon

Corydon Throsp is a minor character in Gravity's Rainbow who was responsible for the erection of the maisonette where Teddy Bloat and Pirate Prentice live.

Weisenburger sources the etymology to André Gide, Corydon, (1924), a text arguing that homosexuality is a sign of an advanced civilisation, but also to the work of Theocritus whose central character bears the same name.1

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part and episode listing

Beyond the Zero: [1], [2]

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page numbers

5, 9

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references

  1. ^Weisenburger, Steven, A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel (Athens and London: University of Georgia Press, 1988), p. 19

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