“It is spring, and French thyme blossoms in amazing white lacework across the cape of green that now hides and softens the true shape of the old rubble"

Radio Free Lemuria: Episode 4 - Gravity's Rainbow 1.2 (2/2) - Proto-Marxists and Ur-Fascists On adenoids, Narodniks, proto-fascists, Eastern European borders, and postmodernism (with David Patrick Gallagher)

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The Curious Case of Thomas Pynchon With the release of "Shadow Ticket," his first novel in 12 years, and the "Vineland"-inspired "One Battle After Another," only one thing is for sure: the author won’t be in evidence.

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Thomas Pynchon has always been writing nonfiction.

““Hadn’t you heard?” They all looked at her. Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass.”

The Crying of Lot 49 — Thomas Pynchon

“It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.”
― Thomas Pynchon

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The 'Bleeding Edge' bleeds into 2026 Jason Dick and Sean Carswell discuss Thomas Pynchon’s 2013 novel “Bleeding Edge,” and how its story about the dot-com bubble and 9/11 applies to the present day, with politics and society dominated by...

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I’m basically copying Thomas Pynchon with my writing style

something like this happens every 50 pages in almost all thomas pynchon novels

Thomas Pynchon Saw American Fascism Coming The elusive author of paranoid, absurdist novels looks more and more prescient these days.

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

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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.”

The world’s ‘most dangerous’ cheese | CNN It’s illegal to buy and sell, but casu marzu, a maggot-infested sheep milk cheese is a revered delicacy on the Italian island of Sardinia. Locals hope their unusual dairy product can shed its hazardou...

“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)