V2 rocket program.

Gravity's Rainbow by  Thomas Pynchon .

A novel inspired by a single concept. That sprawled into an entire web of stories.

All coming from one human, timeless value: fear .

The  ICBM will take less than half an hour. It will arrive with no sound. It's probably better if...

When he entered the  cafe , it was shadowed. Not dark, the  sun 's light made its way, filtered, to the main area where people were seated.

People were conversing, in hushed tones, now that the music was off. The person at the counter couldn't buy their coffee . The  barista...

On the morning ride, I hardly ever kept my eyes closed.

There was this weird thing about morning, where my mind didn't meander. Leaving me wanting more. Just sitting there on the bus, I felt like my thoughts were good enough.

In the evening I'd always be curious about what other people...

For years all he wanted out of life was to be able to afford  groceries . Everybody around him wanted to  hustle and become big shot CEOs or  lifestyle business owners that the internet looked up to. But all he wanted was to be able to go to the grocery...

Man drank pure  water and it became his  blood .

Sometimes he and another man would get into an argument over water. And he would hit the other man with a rock and blood would flow out of the other man.

The first time man killed he felt invincible. By the...

They went to a swanky bistro where everything was high quality. The wood and velvet and leather that draped the well to do diners during their care free conversations. The quality of ingredients. The thick, textured paper of the menus. The wax of the burning candles.
The only thing...

The sky would descend on them any moment. Of this he was certain. He was trying to warn the others, they were walking together in a group of four, but he didn't want to spook them. How to let them know that soon the sky would be down here, where...

By the time he walked into the menagerie of 10AM at the office, he was calm about everything. He knew he'd get out of this. He'd gotten himself into worse situations before. Plus now that he thought about it, his wife catching him  cheating wasn't the biggest of his worries.

Even...

The thought of returning home felt unwise. Although he spent all day dreaming up sales copy that could convince bozos into buying almost anything, Dempsey couldn't imagine a plausible explanation, a believable story as to why he had been gone all night.

It painted too perfect a picture: the cheating husband....

Man saw that every time urine left his body he would soon die...

if it were not for water . Pure, clear water that he could drink so that he would not run out of blood .

The earth provided so much water. It seemed an endless supply. Man would urinate in...