the Rathenau seance
The most distinctive element of Thomas Pynchon’s account of modernity, and the element that makes it so vital, is its...
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listening, then transmitting
“It is always a hidden place, the way into it is not obvious, the geography is as much spiritual as physical. If you...
Tolkien’s riddles
The Riddles of the Hobbit is a riddling book about a riddling writer, a philological exercise concerning the works of a...
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...