For 10 points identify this 1973 novel which famously begins "
One subplot in this novel is octogenarian Brigadier General Pudding's illicit passion for being defecated on by a woman dressed up as Lady Death; another concerns the medium Carroll Eventyr's astral quest to learn about a seraph who appeared in the sky fighting Luftwaffe with a flaming sword. The Soviet Purkyevitch trades the pedophilic Pavlovian Dr. Pointsman a giant semi- intelligent (*) octopus named Grigori. Major figures include Katja, a Dutch Resistance fighter who nevertheless sold Jews to the SS and wants redemption, and American statistician Roger Mexico who longs to find meaning in the Poisson Distribution. Its hero is Tyrone Slothrop, who somehow predicts rocket trajectories by getting an erection. For 10 points identify this 1973 novel which famously begins "A screaming comes across the sky," a work of Thomas Pynchon.
One subplot in this novel is octogenarian Brigadier General Pudding's illicit passion for being defecated on by a woman dressed up as Lady Death; another concerns the medium Carroll Eventyr's astral quest to learn about a seraph who appeared in the sky fighting Luftwaffe with a flaming sword.
{Gravity’s Rainbow}