Tag: Thomas Pynchon

22 Results

| December 23, 2016

hierophanies

“As things developed, she [Oedipa Maas] was to have all manner of revelations,” we are told in the first chapter of...

| December 22, 2016

the tragedy of couriers

What is the real tragedy of the courier? That he should be the bearer, the transmitter, of messages which he neither...

| December 21, 2016

post and courier

People who know almost nothing else about Pynchon know that The Crying of Lot 49 is concerned with the possible...

| December 12, 2016

what I’m doing here

Just a quick post here to note that this ongoing orgy of Pynchoniana will be neither systematic nor scholarly, but...

| December 12, 2016

V.1

In the first pages of V. Benny Profane falls in love with Rachel Owlglass, who at that point in the story seems to love...

| December 9, 2016

The Big Pynchon Re-Read

As regular readers of this blog will know, I’ve spent a good bit of time over the past couple of years thinking...