I'm almost sorry to return to Gravity's Rainbow after reading Underworld, but I wanted to follow up on something we were discussing in class. Could the collective search for the rocket be a universal quest for agency or an analogy for the arms race? Support for this hinges somewhat on the Herero situation. The most significant decision in their history is their determination to end the continuation of a history altogether, part of this is searching for the rocket, to bring the opposing sides together. I interpreted the suicide as a final and last-resort method of regaining agency, finding the rocket then, is part of attempting to find agency. In the world today, countries such as North Korea and Iran would perhaps consider nuclear knowledge and arms, "rockets," to be a way of regaining control over their fate in the international arena, a way to avoid Western manipulation, a way to recovering agency, sovereignty.