Packet 1: Tossup 4

An epigraph in this novel originally consisted of lyrics from Joni Mitchell’s “Cactus Tree” before being changed at the last minute. In this novel, Geli Tripping ventures to the top of Brocken with another character to experience “Kirghiz Light.” (-5[1])That character scours continental Europe in search of the S-Gerät. In this novel, a discovery presented by Pointsman, a member of PISCES, is dismissed (15[1])as a mere (15[2])(*) Poisson (10[1])distribution (10[2])by Roger (10[2])Mexico. (10[4])Those events (10[2])create the “screaming across the sky” that (10[2])opens (10[2])this novel. (10[2]-5[1])For 10 points, (10[1])V-2 rocket strike (10[1])locations (10[2]0[1]-5[1])are correlated (10[1])with Tyrone (10[1])Slothrop’s sexual encounters in what Thomas Pynchon (10[3])novel? (10[2])■END■ (10[4]0[2])

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