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Thomas Pynchon “The craze for Gothic fiction after “The Castle of Otranto” was grounded, I suspect, in deep and religious yearnings for that earlier mythical time which had come to be known as the Age of Miracles. In ways more and less literal, folks in the 18th century believed that once upon a time all…
Your Emperor was answerable to Heaven,– here must we answer to the Market, day upon day unending, for ‘tis the inscrutable Power we serve, an invisible-Handed god without Mercy. Mason & Dixon – Thomas Pynchon (via dianebluegreen)
The Thomas Pynchon Novel for the Edward Snowden Era But ideas, not plot, have always been Pynchon’s main concern. The central preoccupation of Bleeding Edge is the nexus of technology and terror—not terrorism itself so much as our culture’s amorphous fears about the future. A topic statement arrives early in the novel, spoken by a…
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The bite of the brown recluse spider is upsetting, if not sometimes fatal to deadly, to some so toxic to such an umteenth and darkly chimerical degree that this arachnidal prick–even at dosages too tiny to see with the proverbial or empirical naked eye–oh my, well, it can blot your anatomical/spiritual sun (and we all…
The Straight Dope Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr was born to Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Sr. and Katherine Frances Bennett Pynchon on May 8, 1937 in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York. They moved to East Norwich when Thomas, Jr was just a child. His father became town supervisor of Oyster Bay and later an industrial surveyor.…