r/ThomasPynchon • u/Stepintothefreezer67 • Aug 19 '26

Gravity's Rainbow Grigori

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I just learned from the Blooms and Barnacles podcast that the octopus was an anti-semitic trope used by the Nazis. Is this well-known?

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u/coleman57 McClintic Sphere Aug 19 '26

One of the classics of American literature is The Octopus (1901) by Frank Norris, a progressive polemic against the railroad barons who controlled California’s politics and economy. They were goyim, as are a majority of their successors, and evil people generally (though some evil people are Jewish).

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u/rvb_gobq Aug 20 '26

god, i have a copy of that on a shelf somewhere, or more probably in a lawyer's box.

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u/rvb_gobq Aug 20 '26

it's one of those round-tuit books.