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La subasta del lote 49 (The Crying of Lot 49 en inglés) es una novela escrita por el autor estadounidense Thomas Pynchon y que fue publicada en 1966. Siendo el trabajo más corto de Pynchon, relata la historia de una mujer, Oedipa Maas, quien indaga sobre una antigua agencia de correos, Tristero, supuestamente extinta, pero que al parecer opera en la clandestinidad, para beneficio de todos aquellos que se oponen al sistema de distribución convencional. La novela es frecuentemente citada como ejemplo de ficción postmoderna. La revista TIME selecciono La subasta del lote 49 como una de las mejores novelas de habla inglesa de 1923 a 2005.

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In which we discuss the final chapter of The Crying of Lot 49.

Oedipa, with the help of a Warfinger scholar, digs into the history of the Trystero. As the people and things in her life gradually fall away, she finds herself in a fugue. The last bit of her former lover, Pierce, who set her upon this quest, goes up for auction. It is there that she faces the crying of lot 49.

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“Mike Fallopian cannot be a real character’s name.”

–protests one reviewer (via whorevidal)

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In Golden Gate Park she came on a circle of children in their nightclothes, who told her they were dreaming the gathering. But that the dream was really no different from being awake, because in the mornings when they got up they felt tired, as if they’d been up most of the night. When their mothers thought they were out playing they were really curled in cupboards of neighbors’ houses, in platforms up in trees, in secretly-hollowed nests inside hedges, sleeping, making up for these hours. The night was empty of all terror for them, they had inside their circle an imaginary fire, and needed nothing but their own unpenetrated sense of community.

From The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon (via hush-syrup)

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In which we wrap up chapter five of The Crying of Lot 49.

After a night spent wandering the streets of San Narciso and seeing the post-horn at nearly every turn, Oedipa encounters an old sailor who asks her to drop a letter into W.A.S.T.E. for him. She tails a deliveryman for a while, and then heads back to Kinneret…where things are certainly in a much different state than when she left.

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Shall I project a world?

Thomas Pynchon, from The Crying of Lot 49 (via filthiestlaugh)

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A copy of The Crying of Lot 49 with a dedication from someone very special.

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In which we talk about the first half of Chapter 5 of The Crying of Lot 49.

Chapter 5 begins with Oedipa visiting John Nefastis and his homemade Maxwell’s Demon device. Afterward, she begins a night of peregrination, wandering from place to place, point to point, the muted post-horn always seeming to follow – or perhaps precede – her.

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To the Editor: In a recent letter to the editor, Romain Gary asserts that I took the name “Genghis Cohen” from a novel of his to use in a novel of mine, The Crying of Lot 49. Mr. Gary is totally in error. I took the name Genghis Cohen from the name of Genghis Khan (1162-1227), the well-known Mongol warrior and statesman. If Mr. Gary really believes himself to be the only writer at present able to arrive at a play on words this trivial, that is another problem entirely, perhaps more psychiatric than literary, and I certainly hope he works it out. Thomas Pynchon, New York City.

The New York Times Book Review 17 July 1966, pp. 24, 26 (via afronaut)

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Entropy

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Addressing chapter four of The Crying of Lot 49 with a brand-new panelist. Welcome, Blake!

Chapter 4 finds Oedipa first at a stockholders’ meeting of Yoyodyne, after which she finds a young man seemingly hip to the W.A.S.T.E. system. In a code-heavy conversation, he mentions the last of the true inventors, John Nefastis, who created a real, live Maxwell’s Demon that will work with the aid of a psychic sensitive. Later, she finds an edition of The Courier’s Tragedy with notably differing text, uncover a bit more about the Tristero’s possible involvement in early American postal services, and talk to eminent philatelist Genghis Cohen.

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Today is Pynchon in Public Day. Pictured here is Editorial Assistant Elizabeth Bruce with her totally rad tattoo of the muted post horn made famous in The Crying of Lot 49, awkwardly resting on a copy of Mason & Dixon in order to get enough light from the window. If I weren’t cowardly, I’d have a matching one as well. Maybe later.

Oedipa stood in the living room, stared at by the greenish dead eye of the TV tube, spoke the name of God, tried to feel as drunk as possible.

Go forth, readers. Discuss your post-modern lit theory, scribble your post horns and Kilroys, hide from cameras, collect stamps, listen to rock and roll, read Pynchon in public.

(Quote is from Lot 49, second sentence).

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To her left appeared a prolonged scatter of wide, pink buildings, surrounded by miles of fence topped with barbed wire and interrupted now and then by guard towers: soon an entrance whizzed by, two sixty-foot missiles on either side and the named Yoyodyne lettered conservatively on each nose cone.

Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49 (via talesofpassingtime)

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In which we continue our analysis of The Crying of Lot 49…with our analysis of The Courier’s Tragedy.

The Courier’s Tragedy is a Pynchon-invented play within the novel modeled on the revenge tragedies of seventeenth century England. It’s wildly violent and hugely entertaining…but what’s the point? How might it work within the novel? And what of Oepida’s encounter with the play’s director? We might just have some answers for you; then again, we might just have more questions.

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The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon