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, 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, a member of PISCES, is dismissed as a mere (*) Poisson distribution (10[1])by Roger Mexico. Those events create the “screaming across the sky” that opens this novel. For 10 points, V-2 rocket strike locations (0[1]-5[1])are correlated with Tyrone Slothrop’s sexual encounters in what Thomas Pynchon novel? (10[1])■END■ (10[1])

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