A pie fight between a hot air balloon and an airplane
The main character keeps a map of London with stars over the places he’s recently had sex. This map just so happens to perfectly match a map of where V2 rockets have dropped. The strange thing is that he has sex before the rockets fall. No one, including him, can figure out why this is happening
A mysterious rocket with serial number 00000, and the search for it (which is the central plot of the novel)
A history of the extinction of the Dodo bird by colonizers
The main character is shot out of a cannon while wearing a pig costume
Later, people are looking for the main character and plan on castrating him. Another character has stolen and is wearing the pig costume.
Things in Gravity’s Rainbow