I have read Gravity’s Rainbow once, and I am now reading it a second time. To me the book is highly underrated. What interests me, is how Pynchon refers to the Wizard of Oz in the third part: ""Toto, I fear, we're not in Kansas anymore ... " Does anyone else see a similar pattern of Slothrop and Dorothy? Both protagonists seem to be walking in a world in which they don't have a place (anymore). Dorothy is looking for a way back home, and Slothrop is looking for... a way out? How would you see this resemblance? And does anybody else see other resemblances? Like characters which look like characters in the Wizard of Oz? Or certain events on his path which feel like the Wizard of Oz?