“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"
Thomas Pynchon
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American novelist noted for dense and complex novels Parody?
““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
I’m basically copying Thomas Pynchon with my writing style
something like this happens every 50 pages in almost all thomas pynchon novels
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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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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.”
“Does cheese, considered as a living entity, also possess consciousness?” www.cnn.com/travel/artic...
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...
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Tom McMillan (original marker courtesy of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon)
