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1	* AwardSnub:
2	** The UsefulNotes/PulitzerPrize committee awarded the book a prize in 1974, but were overruled by the Pulitzer board, who called it "turgid and overwritten."
3	** Pynchon did this in reverse when he won the National Book Award, sending Irwin Corey to accept the award in his place.
4	* CrossesTheLineTwice: Many moments, such as the ToiletHumor odyssey where Slothrop dives down one and goes on a journey beyond, the many gross and taboo sexual acts - some of them PlayedForDrama! - and the rocket limericks.
5	-->''There was a young fellow named Hector,''\
6	''Who was fond of a launcher-erector.''\
7	''But the squishes and pops''
8	-->''Of acute pressure drops''
9	-->''Wrecked Hector's hydraulic connector.''
10	* DesignatedHero: Slothrop, who spends his entire quest on various sidetracks.
11	* FauxSymbolism: What Do You Mean That Comma on Page 642 Is Not Symbolic?: More in the case of the WildMassGuessing around elements of the book than the author himself.
12	* SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: "There's never much talk but touches and looks, smiles together, curses for parting. It is marginal, hungry, chilly — most times they're too paranoid to risk a fire — but it's something they want to keep, so much that to keep it they will take on more than propaganda has ever asked them for. They are in love. Fuck the war."
13	* IronWoobie: Bianca, who keeps her composure despite being surrounded by depravity and a mother who's lost her mind.
14	* {{Squick}}: Where to start? [[spoiler:Slothrop's adventures in a nightclub toilet bowl; the early sexual experiments on infant Slothrop involving Imipolex G; Pudding's coprophagia; Blicero's threesomes with Gottfried and Katje; the possibility that Franz's girl may be his long lost daughter; Gottfried being built into a rocket.]]
15	** Used ''Symbolically'', no less!
16	* TearJerker: The Franz Pokler subplot. Despite his [[ParentalIncest questionable feelings]] towards a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, Franz being manipulated by Weissmann/[[spoiler:Blicero]] into helping build the 00000 is a tragic situation.
17	** [[spoiler:The implied murder of Bianca]] is also disturbing and sad.
18	** The love triangle with Roger Mexico, Jessica, and Jeremy is a surprisingly profound one. It can pull at one's heartstrings to see Roger realizing he'll lose Jessica once the War is over, [[spoiler:and in the end he does.]]
19	* ViewersAreGeniuses: Arguably even more so than with Pynchon's other novels.

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