Round 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, (15[1])Geli Tripping ventures to the top of Brocken with another character to experience “Kirghiz Light”; that character scours continental Europe in search of the S-Gerät. In this novel, a discovery presented by Pointsman, (15[1]-5[1])a member of PISCES, is dismissed as a mere (*) Poisson distribution by Roger (10[1])Mexico. (10[4])Those events create the “screaming across the sky” that opens this novel. (10[1])For 10 points, V-2 rocket strike locations are correlated with Tyrone Slothrop’s sexual encounters in what Thomas Pynchon novel? ■END■

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