Thomas Pynchon

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Finished Shadow Ticket.

Fuck the reviewers.

This is Pynchon playing jazz late into the night after the last patron has left the club; maybe there's no home to go to, but with nowhere particular to be, either.

When the human tendency to detect patterns goes too far | Psyche Ideas ‘Apophenia’ is reflected in pleasant and troubling experiences alike – from seeing faces in clouds to conspiracy beliefs

Apophenia, seeing far-fetched connections. Pareidolia, seeing faces in things. Pynchon mentions them in SHADOW TICKET. At a metalevel, I'm having apophenia with his work. Like he's specifically writing about recondite thing I've thought about. "Message to you, Rudy." psyche.co/ideas/when-t...

Looks like Pynchon is having a moment. #pynchon #lot49 #iykyk

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Thomas Pynchon's first novel V. (1963) features an AI named SHROUD who immediately starts talking about death and suicide. Gotta say Pynchon called that one!

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Playing a 5 hour noir ambiance white noise video on YouTube while reading the new Pynchon only to realise that it's already it's dark, gloomy, and raining outside my window.

“Through the machineries of greed, pettiness, and the abuse of power, love occurs.”
Thomas Pynchon

Shout out to the frankly deranged bookstore clerk involved in this conversation I just overheard:

Customer: “I’m looking for a recommendation for my dad. He’s a big fan of John Steinbeck…”

Clerk: “OK, has he read any Thomas Pynchon?”

Underneath Impact-font text reading NORTH CAROLINA MENTIONED, an anime girl wearing a North Carolina hat and a UNC Tar Heels sweatshirt holds aloft a box of Bojangles chicken and a bottle of Cheerwine. A cardinal swoops behind her amidst a lush autumn forest.

It's live! Listen to Pynchon Pals Episode 03: In which Andrew uncovers a conspiracy and North Carolina is mentioned (V. Chs. 5-6). redcircle.com/shows/3c4720...

Thomas Pynchon was in my dream last night.
We were in Mexico. And we were happy

"Nothin' meaner than an old hippie that's gone sour."

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All the animals, the plants, the minerals, even other kinds of men, are being broken and reassembled every day, to preserve an elite few, who are the loudest to theorize on freedom, but the least free of all.

― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow
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Gravity’s Rainbow

Thomas Pynchon 🙄

Picked mine up before I got on the plane from Cleveland to Detroit to Paris to Budapest

“As long as American life is something to be escaped from, the cartel will always be assured a bottomless pool of new customers”

GitHub - Yasuna-Ide/Gravitys_Readme: A digital homage to Thomas Pynchon’s monumental novel Gravity’s Rainbow — a postmodern scripture of paranoia, entropy, and code. A digital homage to Thomas Pynchon’s monumental novel Gravity’s Rainbow — a postmodern scripture of paranoia, entropy, and code. - Yasuna-Ide/Gravitys_Readme

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“There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.”

It’s prurient I know, but when the Pynchon archives are released eventually I do want to know which of his hippie girlfriends left him for a fed/real estate magnate/whatever iteration of “the man” it was. I understand that’s it’s his shorthand for the 60s counterculture crashing out in the 70s but

One more stray Pynchon thought: since he was friends with Richard Fariña, and presumably also Mimi (Baez) Fariña, it’s remotely possible that there’s a Pynchon/Baez/Dylan photo hidden out there somewhere

Louvre Heist is my favourite Thomas Pynchon character name

That is!

I’m all out

William Gibson, Lisa Simpson and More on Their Favorite Pinch of Pynchon

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Is Thomas Pynchon the last novelist who won’t write about himself? Shadow Ticket will surely be the 88-year-old author’s final book. But reviewers seem to be annoyed that he still refuses to follow the trend of making fiction autobiographical

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Pynchon’s Farewell to America’s Vanishing Dream Thomas Pynchon’s Shadow Ticket whisks us way back to 1932 amid shantytowns and lindy-hopping in the end times of prohibition as fascist creeps creep into

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The moment in Gravity's Rainbow where Pynchon straight up name drops Ishmael Reed- is my favorite "game recognize game" moment in, like, all literature. So this rules.

“I don’t know why Against the Day hasn’t been banned” | Ishmael Reed on Thomas Pynchon I don’t know why Against the Day hasn’t been banned. In one of the most remarkable scenes penned by an American writer, Pynchon cites events that the anti-woke crowd would want deleted. Referring t…

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Part 2 - Chapter 31: The Act of Killing Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 2 - Chapter 31: Something Wrong, The Restless Bee, the Paxton Boys, Coffeeshop Gossip, LeSpark's Excuses, Mason's Lesson on History

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