Pynchonoia

V. , The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Slow Learner, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, Inherent Vice, Bleeding Edge . . .

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This one was thoroughly enjoyable to draw! Some great books and nice colours. Get a print of your own fave books here

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Inherent vice, 2014

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Thomas Pynchon sells his archive

Thomas Pynchon sells his archive

At The New York Times, Jennifer Schuessler reports that Thomas Pynchon has sold his archive to Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California. The article notes that the “archive includes 48 boxes — 70 linear feet, in archivist-speak — of material dating from the late 1950s to the 2020s” and includes :typescripts and drafts of all his published books”  to date as…

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A corner of a new commission.

Is it finally time for me to read the copy of Swann’s Way that has been on my shelf since 2006??

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“Taking and not giving back, demanding that ‘productivity’ and 'earnings’ keep on increasing with time, the System removing from the rest of the World these vast quantities of energy to keep its own tiny desperate fraction showing a profit: and not only most of humanity — most of the World, animal, vegetable, and mineral, is laid waste in the process. The System may or may not understand that it’s only buying time. And that time is an artificial resource to begin with, of no value to anyone or anything but the System, which must sooner or later crash to its death, when its addiction to energy has become more than the rest of the World can supply, dragging with it innocent souls all along the chain of life. Living inside the System is like riding across the country in a bus driven by a maniac bent on suicide…”

— Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

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It means this War was never political at all, the politics was all theatre, all just to keep the people distracted…secretly, it was being dictated instead by the needs of technology…by a conspiracy between human beings and techniques, by something that needed the energy-burst of war, crying, “Money be damned, the very life of [insert name of Nation] is at stake,” but meaning, most likely, dawn is nearly here, I need my night’s blood, my funding, funding, ahh more, more…The real crises were crises of allocation and priority, not among firms—it was only staged to look that way—but among the different Technologies, Plastics, Electronics, Aircraft, and their needs which are understood only by the ruling elite…

-Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow

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We’re All Living Under Gravity’s Rainbow

Looming apocalypse. Paranoid conspiracies. Rocket-obsessed oligarchs. As Thomas Pynchon’s novel turns 50, its world feels unnervingly presen

Gee, uh, don't I kn-know it.

"Say, Doc, you ever use ChatGPT?"

"Does it know where I can score?"

*Cue Porky Pig's Loony Tunes outro.

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1965

[elveepee]

Are you okay, brother?

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"If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers."

- Thomas Pynchon

[davidhudson]

Happy 85th, Thomas Pynchon.

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Inherent vice, 2014

[fuckyeahthomaspynchon]

Can't say it often enough - change your hair, change your life.

Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice