Tolkien’s riddles
The Riddles of the Hobbit is a riddling book about a riddling writer, a philological exercise concerning the works of a...
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Pynchon’s riddles
In the opening chapters of Against the Day Pynchon hints at certain oddities in the space/time continuum of the book....
fear and loathing in recent American history
It’s been said — I wish I knew who said it first — that fantasy is always about disenchantment, about the...
growth and form
In my previous post I explored some of the biological contexts of the idea of morphosis, form-changing, in Pynchon’s...
morphosis
Here’s a passage from my review of Adam Roberts’s edition of Coleridge’s Biographia Literaria: As the culmination...
brief Pynchon update
Well … I know I said I was going to stop blogging my way through Pynchon, but I am grateful for the comments...
does Pynchon write good novels?
(the other two I’m reading digitally) Reading Pynchon — especially in the large quantities I am ingesting this...
a change of plan
Re-reading Gravity’s Rainbow — for the first time in decades — has been a remarkable experience. Among other...
hierophanies
“As things developed, she [Oedipa Maas] was to have all manner of revelations,” we are told in the first chapter of...
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...