Recommendation for college protestors feeling a little schizoid: drop out, enlist in military for 2 yr, return to school and finish degree, work in tech or defense industry for 2 yr then quit, hide, write novels. Angels might listen.

#Pynchon
„My other car is a Pynchon novel“
#Pynchon InPublic • May 8th ⚠️

eXy (female twink) I have bought out every single Pynchon and interesting history book at Annie’s in Worcester and that’s basically it. The city council is actively evil and geriatric and I can’t believe there’s zero young people advising on how to actually culturally renovate the city

watching Big Lebowski: wonder if they read Vineland, why Pynchon derived so much of Inherent Vice from it, why PTA is effectively remaking it for the second time....

'I am not familiar with the works of (Thomas Pynchon).'

Vladimir Nabokov born on this day, 125 years ago in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Pynchon’s Dantean city

Getting into Thomas Pynchon and Aqua Teen Hunger Force in the same week. Duality of man

I just finished reading Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon.

Great Novel — both words are capitalized — I won't say anything else now

Thank You mr. Pynchon! 🖤

and thanx to everyone who worked on the translation

Reasons NOT to read Gravity's Rainbow:

You might get trapped in an embarrassing cycle of abuse with Rilke's spirit on the internet: impulsively bully him (angelophobia + Balthus), feel remorseful, reconcile by admitting his genius, feel ashamed, calm, repeat...

“…because all investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.”

— Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day

Si vous voulez tout savoir sur Thomas Pynchon, ses meilleurs exégèses sont ici : fricfracclub.com/dossier-pyncho…

An excuse to quote this bravura passage from Lot 49, which is always the Pynchon to start with.

hypothetically speaking (and I don't wanna even talk about choosing a book rn) if i were to try and get a lil once a week or so book club together to read some Pynchon over the summer, would anybody be down?

On ThomasPynchonWiki we learn that Thomas Pynchon, for the Chums of Chance in his book Against the day, was inspired by “The Explorigator”, a comic writed by Harry Grant Dart in 1908.

Esoteric American masterpiece:

“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.”

― Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

icb i never noticed how this entire film is under some pynchon spell

Kirkdale Bookshop A friend drunk at a party trying to remember the name of a Pynchon book. 'Y'know the one I mean, 'Gravy's Rainbow'.'

lauren i want to preempt the thomas pynchon truthers in 400 years. yes, he was real, he was on the simpsons. they wouldnt lie.

There is no real direction here, neither lines of power nor cooperation. Decisions are never really made – at best they manage to emerge, from a chaos of peeves, whims, hallucinations and all around assholery.
-Thomas Pynchon

Kenneth Josephson 1988

I've said it before, but there has never been a better time to read Gravity's Rainbow for the first time.