hierophanies
“As things developed, she [Oedipa Maas] was to have all manner of revelations,” we are told in the first chapter of...
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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...
post and courier
People who know almost nothing else about Pynchon know that The Crying of Lot 49 is concerned with the possible...
Pynchon, entropy, cybernetics
American Society for Cybernetics A great deal of learning underpins Pynchon’s fiction, and if you’re not...
Pynchon, Henry Adams, and the twentieth century
I mentioned in a previous post Pynchon’s interest in The Education of Henry Adams, and I think that interest...
V.2: the progression towards inanimateness
Picking up where we left off: In the scenes we looked at last time, we saw certain structurally similar ideas being...
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...
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...
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...
the unbought grace of the human self
Returning to Edward Mendelson’s essay “In the Depths of the Digital Age”: an essay about technology, some might...