1. T. Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, New York, 1975, 76.
2. Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1975. The quotes are from pages 18, 17, 76, and 77 respectively.
3. Sex and death in the rational world of defense intellectuals;Cohn;Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society,1987
4. Apart from pointing to the obvious fact that most defense intellectuals are men, she argues that their research and analysis is at every turn coloured by masculinism. Katz in his study of the OSS begins to try to find the almost exclusively female producers of ‘4000 cubic feet of typescript … [whose] only archival trace were [their] … initials at the bottom left hand corner’. B. Katz, Foreign Intelligence: Research and Analysis in the Office of Strategic Services 1942–1945, Cambridge, MA, 1989, 25. Mechtild Rössler, however, says that women at OSS were not confined to the typing pool, suggesting that up to 25% of the research force was female, and often engaged in espionage because they were less likely to be caught. M. Rössler, Geographers and social scientists in the office for strategic services (OSS) 1941–45, in: V. Berdoulay and J.A. van Ginkel (Eds), Nederlandse Geografische Studies 206: Geography and Professional Practice, Utrecht, 1996, 75–85.
5. Geography, cartography and military intelligence: the Royal Geographical Society and the First World War;Heffernan;Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers,1996