“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 has always been writing nonfiction.

““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

“You hide, They seek” Part of Pynchon’s “Proverb for Paranoids”

Oppenheimer.

You? Never. Did the Kenosha kid?

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...

Tom McMillan (original marker courtesy of Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon)

your moment of calm

My first DNF of the year, now that I’m finally allowing myself to do this! (I actually would have also DNF’ed Jane Austen’s Persuasion last weekend if it wasn’t for a book group.) I’m on fire!

I’m curious whether anyone can point me to any fictitious film- makers with an equally fictitious filmography. I’m only familiar with two: James O Incandenza (DFW’s Infinite Jest) and Max Castle (Theodore Roszak’s Flicker). Drawing a blank regarding others.

"What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song"

Ignorance is not just a blank space on a person’s mental map. It has contours and coherence, and for all I know rules of operation as well. So as a corollary to writing about what we know, maybe we should add getting familiar with our ignorance, and the possibilities therein for ruining a good story

"What goes around may come around, but it never ends up exactly the same place, you ever notice? Like a record on a turntable, all it takes is one groove's difference and the universe can be on into a whole 'nother song."

I despise Thomas Pynchon with every fiber of my being so I got triggered there for a minute lol

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, re the creation of the New Turkic Alphabet: "On sidewalks and walls the very first printed slogans start to show up, the first Central Asian fuck you signs, the first kill-the-police-commissioner signs ...

“There is also the story about Tyrone Slothrop, who was sent into the Zone to be present as his own assembley…The plan went wrong. He is being broken down…and being scattered. His cards have been laid down, Celtic style…they point only to a long and scuffling future, to mediocrity.”

That friend actually told me the other day: "Last year, I read got sober. And I read GRAVITY'S RAINBOW. And my dad died. And I had my first kid. And honestly the Pynchon was the hardest part."