Author: Thomas Pynchon
Novel: Gravity's Rainbow
Mr. Mystery, the great Thomas Pynchon. Just because your paranoid doesn’t mean they’re not after you, obviously.
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Reading more Thomas Pynchon. This one is fun. The Crying of Lot 49
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'Set in 1984, the novel saw Pynchon reckoning with the profound, premeditated wounding of countercultural beliefs that took place in between Nixon and Reagan, paving the way for authoritarianism to swoop in and undermine civil liberties at every level.'
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Mason & Dixon is a beast. Literary Arts is running a Delve seminar starting Feb 23 to dissect Pynchon’s take on Enlightenment surveying. High density for the deep readers. literary-arts.org/event/thomas-pynchon-mason-dixon/ #Pynchon #Literature
#Pynchon: Jetzt saß er in der Waschmaschine, die ihm voriges Jahr als Raumkapsel gedient hatte, lauschte dem Regen, begann sich vorzustellen, wie es sein mußte, wenn man älter wurde, und schließlich alt und immer noch älter, brach den Gedanken ab, eher sich in einen an den Tod verwandelte
Thomas #Pynchon Saw American #Fascism Coming - The elusive author of paranoid, absurdist novels looks more and more prescient these days. www.currentaffairs.org/news/thomas-...
Chapter 11 of the new #Pynchon includes reference to "a full-scale attack of the Fee Bee jeebies." Not just full of warnings about national socialism, the story is set in the 30s to leave no room for misinterpretation
“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.” - Thomas #Pynchon
Looking forward to this. Was given it for Christmas and working up to it. Opening pages look great. #pynchon
#Pynchon Many have speculated that Sortilège is an incarnation of Doc's mind and intuition, providing him with a platonic sisterly quality he does not get from his relationships with other women in the age of free love. She is an oracle for the decaying era of counter culture.
"Inmitten all dieser Zufälle, die in den letzten Tagen, wohin sie auch blickte, aus dem Boden geschossen waren wie Pilze, hatte sie nur einen Klang, ein Wort im Ohr, um sie alle zusammenzuhalten: Trystero."
Aus: Die Versteigerung von No. 49, Thomas #Pynchon.
Erstes #Buch 2026: Shadow Ticket von Thomas #Pynchon. Sehr gemocht, auch aus nostalgischen Gründe, weil das praktisch ein Prequel zu Gravity's Rainbow ist. (Vermutlich auch sein letzter Roman. Der Mann ist schließlich fast 90.)
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Collage of a hypothetical cover of Thomas Pynchon's hypothetical novel "The Godzilla Adjuster" (which may or may not exist). Godzilla destroys buildings. In a circle, a silhouette of the adjuster wearing a fedora hat. In his background, a tax return.
Thomas Pynchon’s new novel is…not the one about the insurance adjuster sent to assess the damage done by Godzilla. #Pynchon #art #collage #books
so thomas #pynchon just writes novels as elaborate delivery vehicles for all the character names, right? (complimentary) #books
Im neuen #pynchon treffen wir auf amerikanische Nazis, Uboote im Lake Michigan und Molkerei-Kriege und Käse, dem von verborgenen Kultisten ein eigenes Bewusstsein attestiert wird. Parallelen zur amerikanischen Gegenwart drängen sich, äh, auf. #literatur
"In Pynchon’s detective books, the form becomes a kind of laboratory for testing what is left to us when information has replaced knowledge and where the logic of detection, the very idea of a solvable mystery, has itself decayed."
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"Spar dir die Tränen, Mutter, ich nehme lieber K.O.-Tropfen."
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Just finished V., the first novel of Thomas Pynchon. Amazing how much the preoccupations and bold voice of Pynchon are already here in 1963. It’s a wild ride, and at times I wondered what it was aiming at, but I can’t deny how impressive it is for a first novel. #reading #booksky #pynchon #novel
Today’s episode is an audio journal of my attempt to read Thomas Pynchon’s 1100-page metahistorical explosion of a novel, “Against the Day.” Join me on this intimate journey of struggle, joy and self-discovery.
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Bananas despite rations and the explosion of banana-based food is a joke on 3+ levels: reinforcing questions of war and imperialism, echoing manna/quail in Exodus & Numbers, double/triple entendres linking the banana, the rocket, and Priapus, pg 9, 11 #gravitysrainbow #pynchon
Der neue #Pynchon. Es ist so schön. Die Syntax!!!
This #Pynchon quote tho 🔥
“Don’t forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals…. The true war is a celebration of markets.”
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Thanks to modern medicine, all pregnancy tests are now open book!
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📚 Just finished Shadow Ticket, and wow, what a trip!
➡️ Up next: Tom’s Crossing
Shadow ticket is classic Pynchon chaos, and he’s clearly just having fun. It's a jazzy, Depression-era detective fever dream that’s as playfully strange as it is eerily relevant.
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New post! On the #chemistry of #purple, my favourite colour💜
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This tale winds its way past sea snails and togas 🏛️, coal tar and dream snakes 🐍, industrial conglomerates and chemical theory ⌬ ⟷ ⏣, to flow […]
I'm a big fan of Thomas #Pynchon, but his new book, Shadow Ticket, didn't do it for me. On the small scale he's still brilliant: snappy writing, intelligent observations, lovely details. But one feels one has seen it all before, and it doesn't cohere into a bigger whole. I totally agree with the […]
