Thomas Pynchon

“You hide, They seek”
Part of Pynchon’s “Proverb for Paranoids”

A blue and yellow tie fighter facing off several Star Wars Dreadnought class spaceships with blue and red colors.

With His “Disrespectful” Remix of Pynchon’s Vineland, PTA Mastered the Art of Adaptation Adapted Screenplay. It’s often an afterthought: an extra category on the Oscar ballot, an edge in your betting pool. Unlike the rest of the Academy, screenwriters get two shots at an award: one for…

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Oppenheimer.

You? Never. Did the Kenosha kid?

So I have given my students a grammar exercise and there is Pynchon in it.

“Budapest, like love in Paris or greed in New York, would be somehow more authentic.”

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“Does cheese, considered as a living entity, also possess consciousness?”

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Tom McMillan (original marker courtesy of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon)

your moment of calm

My first DNF of the year, now that I’m finally allowing myself to do this! (I actually would have also DNF’ed Jane Austen’s Persuasion last weekend if it wasn’t for a book group.) I’m on fire!

I’m curious whether anyone can point me to any fictitious film- makers with an equally fictitious filmography. I’m only familiar with two: James O Incandenza (DFW’s Infinite Jest) and Max Castle (Theodore Roszak’s Flicker). Drawing a blank regarding others.

"What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song"

A partial glossary for Thomas Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow The October 1980 issue of Esquire ran a piece titled “What to Think about Gravity’s Rainbow” by the poet Terrill Shepard Soules. It’s not really a what to think piece, thoug…

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Some movie by PT Anderson…

Ignorance is not just a blank space on a person’s mental map. It has contours and coherence, and for all I know rules of operation as well. So as a corollary to writing about what we know, maybe we should add getting familiar with our ignorance, and the possibilities therein for ruining a good story