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“Events seem to be ordered into an ominous logic.”

History Events Logic Patterns Etc Paranoia Pattern Recognition Thomas Pynchon William Gibson

Book:V.

Source: V.

“...At the moment I am in LA, or possibly only think I am, and who knows for how long... later, Pyn~chon~”

Letters 1965 Thomas Pynchon Dear Los Angeles

Author:Thomas Pynchon

“What chance has a lonely surfer boy For the love of a surfer chick, With all these Humbert Humbert cats Coming on so big and sick? For me, my baby was a woman. For him she’s just another nymphet.”

Surfing Surfer Lolita Thomas Pynchon Humbert Humbert Nabakov Nymphet The Crying Of Lot 49 The Paranoids

Book:The Crying of Lot 49

Source: The Crying of Lot 49

“I pick up the list of Benji's five favorite books because we've got work to do: "Gravity's Rainbow" by Thomas Pynchon. He's a pretentious fuck and a liar. "Underworld" by Don DeLillo. He's a snob. "On the Road" by Jack Kerouac. He's a spoiled passport-carrying fuck stunted in eighth grade. "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men" by David Foster Wallace. Enough already. "The Red Badge of Courage" by Stephen Crane. He's got Mayflowers in his blood.”

Humor Pretension Pretentiousness Jack Kerouac Favorite Books David Foster Wallace Don Delillo Thomas Pynchon Stephen Crane

Book:You

Source: You

“But as we all know, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever.”

Life Education Rock And Roll Introduction Thomas Pynchon Henry Adams Slow Learner Slow Learner Early Stories

Book:Slow Learner

Source: Slow Learner

“No hotel can be recommended as first-class that is not satisfactory in its sanitary arrangements, which should include an abundant flush of water and a supply of proper toilette paper.”

Travel Imperialism Tourism V Thomas Pynchon Jg Ballard Casual Imperialism Conrad Graham Greene Serious Imperialism

Author:Karl Baedeker

“Riot was her element, as surely as this dark room almost creeping with amassed objects. The street and the hothouse; in V. were resolved, by some magic, the two extremes. She frightened him.”

Extremes Etc Frightening Street Thomas Pynchon William Gibson Brontë Hothouse

Book:V.

Source: V.

“girls had turned overnight into whooping, hollering brides of the multitude.”

Thomas Pynchon Against The Day

Book:Against the Day

Source: Against the Day

“What is a village without village idiots ?”

Thomas Pynchon Mason Dixon

Book:Mason & Dixon

Source: Mason & Dixon

“Stargazing in those parts was a young man's term for masturbating”

Thomas Pynchon Mason Dixon

Book:Mason & Dixon

Source: Mason & Dixon

“A Loony Bin with homework. Basically.”

Thomas Pynchon Bleeding Edge

Book:Bleeding Edge

Source: Bleeding Edge

“Everyone has an Antarctica. On one level or another, we all come here for answers. Not just for science, for the climate, but to discover what lies inside ourselves - and others.”

Travel Antarctica Thomas Pynchon

Book:The Dark

Source: The Dark