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Happy Pynchon In Public Day (Thomas Pynchon born 5/8/1937)!

"Fickt nicht mit dem Raketenmensch!"

#UnofficialDiaryDates #PynchonInPublic #ThomasPynchon

Thomas Pynchon on ‚Liberty‘

„Unfortunately, young people,“ recalls the Revd, „the word Liberty, unreflectively sacred to us today, was taken in those Times to encompass even the darkest of Men’s rights,— to injure whomever we might wish,— unto extermination, were it possible,— Free of Royal advice or Proclamation Lines and such. This being, indeed and alas, one of the Liberties our late War was fought to secure.“
Thomas Pynchon
Mason & Dixon, p. 307

#ThomasPynchon #MasonAndDixon #liberty #usa

Zettel 2900

Thomas Pynchon: Der Anzug paßte ihm wie Gary Grant, und er schien sich vor nicht einmal einer Stunde rasiert zu haben und trug eine rosafarbene tropische Blume im Knopfloch. Allerdings roch er immer noch wie die hinteren Regale für Herrenkosmetik in einer Drogerie, und sein Haarschnitt stammte von einem Friseur, der offensichtlich gerade dabei war, sich das Rauchen abzugewöhnen. – Vineland

#vendredilecture en terrain incertain dans tous les sens du terme – vague, ambivalent, confus, trompeur. Trente ans après l’œuvre principale « One flew over the cuckoo’s nest » #KenKesey sortait son dernier roman : « Sailor Song », récit d’anticipation d’encore trente ans au futur – les années 20 du 21e siècle. Situé dans un port de pêche aux confins d’Alaska, il met en scène le conflit entre civilisation et nature à bord d’une véritable nef des fous : ancien écoterroriste se bat contre l’équipage d’un navire plein de cinéastes sous la direction d’un albino méchant – référence intertextuelle au Cpt. Weissmann dans « Gravity’s Rainbow » de #ThomasPynchon...

Filmy i seriale:
»Lista laureatów 98. gali wręczenia Oscarów«

Amerykańska Akademia Sztuki i Wiedzy Filmowej ogłosiła listę filmów, aktorów i twórców nagrodzonych za swoją pracę w 2025 rok.

https://www.fahrenheit.net.pl/film/lista-laureatow-98-gali-wreczenia-oscarow/

#Fahrenheit_zin #Vineland #MrNobodyagainstPutin #AudreyNuna #EricSaindon #Avatar #ThomasPynchon #DavidBorenstein #ReiAmi #DanielBarrett #MichaelBJordan #Hamnet #PavelTalankin #GwendolynYatesWhittle #RyanCoogler #SeanPenn #Wszystkiepustepokoje #JuanPeralta #LudwigGoransson #Wartośćsentymentalna #AlltheEmptyRooms #AlNelson #JessieBuckley #SentimentalValue #JoshuaSeftel #GarethJohn #Frankenstein #JoachimTrier #ŚpiewacyTheSingers #GaryARizzo #Grzesznicy #Kpopowełowczyniedemonów #JackPiatt #F1Film #Sinners #KPopDemonHunters #SamADavis #F1 #AutumnDuraldArkapaw #ChrisAppelhans #Dwieosobywymieniającesięśliną #KateHawley #Weapons #MaggieKang #TwoPeopleExchangingSaliva #MikeHill #AvatarOgieńipopiół #MichelleWong #AlexandreSingh #JordanSamueliClionaFurey #AvatarFireandAsh #TheGirlWhoCriedPearls #NatalieMusteata #TamaraDeverell #Jednabitwapodrugiej #ChrisLavis #AndyJurgensen #ShaneVieau #OneBattleafterAnother #MaciekSzczerbowski #Golden #JoeLetteri #PaulThomasAnderson #PanNiktkontraPutin #EJAE #RichardBaneham

Thomas Pynchon, „Gravity’s Rainbow“, 1973

„Vergiss nicht, dass das eigentliche Geschäft des Krieges das Kaufen und Verkaufen ist. Das Töten und die Gewalt regeln sich von selbst und können Laien anvertraut werden.“

https://www.cocosse.com/2026/03/days-entrust-thomas-pynchon-1973/

Thomas Pynchon, „Gravity’s Rainbow“, 1973

„Vergiss nicht, dass das eigentliche Geschäft des Krieges das Kaufen und Verkaufen ist. Das Töten und die Gewalt regeln sich von selbst und können Laien anvertraut werden.“

https://www.cocosse.com/2026/03/days-entrust-thomas-pynchon-1973/

Thomas Pynchon, „Gravity’s Rainbow“, 1973

„Vergiss nicht, dass das eigentliche Geschäft des Krieges das Kaufen und Verkaufen ist. Das Töten und die Gewalt regeln sich von selbst und können Laien anvertraut werden.“

https://www.cocosse.com/2026/03/days-entrust-thomas-pynchon-1973/

Thomas Pynchon, „Gravity’s Rainbow“, 1973

„Vergiss nicht, dass das eigentliche Geschäft des Krieges das Kaufen und Verkaufen ist. Das Töten und die Gewalt regeln sich von selbst und können Laien anvertraut werden.“

https://www.cocosse.com/2026/03/days-entrust-thomas-pynchon-1973/

»He has the heart of a punk rock singer, but the blood of a protestant New Yorker subscriber.«

Fantastic Podcast for my first read of Thomas Pynchons #GravitysRainbow :

Slow Learners: EP 5: Use Your Allusion (W/Prof. David Cowart)

Webseite der Episode: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ian-scuffling/episodes/EP-5-Use-Your-Allusion-WProf--David-Cowart-e2a74eg

#Pynchon #ThomasPynchon

»He has the heart of a punk rock singer, but the blood of a protestant New Yorker subscriber.«

Fantastic Podcast for my first read of Thomas Pynchons #GravitysRainbow :

Slow Learners: EP 5: Use Your Allusion (W/Prof. David Cowart)

Webseite der Episode: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ian-scuffling/episodes/EP-5-Use-Your-Allusion-WProf--David-Cowart-e2a74eg

#Pynchon #ThomasPynchon

»He has the heart of a punk rock singer, but the blood of a protestant New Yorker subscriber.«

Fantastic Podcast for my first read of Thomas Pynchons #GravitysRainbow :

Slow Learners: EP 5: Use Your Allusion (W/Prof. David Cowart)

Webseite der Episode: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ian-scuffling/episodes/EP-5-Use-Your-Allusion-WProf--David-Cowart-e2a74eg

#Pynchon #ThomasPynchon

https://www.europesays.com/es/411510/ Premios Bafta: ‘Una batalla tras otra’ triunfa con seis premios y Óliver Laxe se va de vacío | Cultura #actores #AdaptacionesCine #CríticaCine #Cultura #Entertainment #Entretenimiento #ES #España #londres #PaulThomasAnderson #Películas #PremiosBafta #PremiosCine #PremiosOscar #Spain #ThomasPynchon #WilliamShakespeare

Best movies of 2025 in the US: No 1 – One Battle After Another https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/dec/19/best-movies-of-2025-in-the-us-no-1-one-battle-after-another #PaulThomasAnderson #LeonardoDiCaprio #BeniciodelToro #JonnyGreenwood #ThomasPynchon #SeanPenn #Culture #Film

#EdwardAbbey war Pionier der Öko-Anarchismus-Gegenkultur. Von seinen ca. 25 Büchern (Romanen, Essays, Briefen, Gedichten) gibt grad mal 3 auf Deutschm u.a. den Kultroman »The Monkey Wrench Gang« (1975; Dt. 1987/2010 mit Illustrationen von #RobertCrumb). Eins meiner Lieblingsbücher. Kann ich allen empfehlen, die auch #ThomasPynchon oder »Armageddon Rock« von #GRRMartin mögen.
Schön, dass es nun immerhin bei #ArteDE eine neue Dokumentation über ihn bei uns gibt.

https://www.arte.tv/de/videos/123999-000-A/von-natur-aus-subversiv/

🚨 Ah, another literary analysis masquerading as a book review. Apparently, Thomas Pynchon's latest hero is a spaghetti-twirling, bomb-dodging, amiable behemoth. 🙄 Who knew solving mysteries involved so much pasta? 🍝👏
https://www.bookforum.com/print/3202/if-the-gumshoe-fits-62416 #literaryanalysis #bookreview #ThomasPynchon #spaghetti #mysteryhumor #pasta #HackerNews #ngated

“Una battaglia dopo l’altra”: il neocolonialismo come distopia

https://codice-rosso.net/una-battaglia-dopo-laltra-il-neocolonialismo-come-distopia/

“Una battaglia dopo l’altra”: il neocolonialismo come distopia

https://codice-rosso.net/una-battaglia-dopo-laltra-il-neocolonialismo-come-distopia/

“Una battaglia dopo l’altra”: il neocolonialismo come distopia

https://codice-rosso.net/una-battaglia-dopo-laltra-il-neocolonialismo-come-distopia/

“Una battaglia dopo l’altra”: il neocolonialismo come distopia

https://codice-rosso.net/una-battaglia-dopo-laltra-il-neocolonialismo-come-distopia/

"And other grandfolks could be heard arguing the perennial question of whether the United States still lingered in a prefascist twilight, or whether that darkness had fallen long stupefied years ago, and the light they thought they saw was coming only from millions of Tubes all showing the same bright-colored shadows."

Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, 371

#onebattleafteranother #paulthomasanderson #LeonardoDiCaprio #SeanPenn
#ThomasPynchon #Vineland #literature #novel #us #usa #fascism #television

A cosmic alignment of the planets will occur on October 7, which will see the publication of two important new books:

Graham St John's *Strange Attractor: The Hallucinatory Life of Terence McKenna* https://www.edgecentral.net/terence-mckenna-biography

and the long-awaited new Thomas Pynchon novel, *Shadow Ticket* https://thomaspynchon.com/an-october-surprise-thomas-pynchons-new-novel-shadow-ticket-oct-7-2025/ #TerenceMcKenna #ErikDavis #psychedelic #ThomasPynchon

One Battle After Another review – Paul Thomas Anderson’s thrillingly helter-skelter counterculture caper https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/17/one-battle-after-another-review-paul-thomas-andersons-thrillingly-helter-skelter-counter-culture-caper #PaulThomasAnderson #LeonardoDiCaprio #BeniciodelToro #JonnyGreenwood #ThomasPynchon #Radiohead #SeanPenn #Culture #Books #Music #Film

“I’m also surprised in retrospect that I didn’t pick what’s often referred to as a ‘ #systemsnovel,’ by which I mean the work of authors like #WilliamGaddis, #DonDeLillo, #ThomasPynchon and #DavidFosterWallace - #writers who deal with vast and complex systems..” fivebooks.com/best-books/b...

The Best 20th-Century American...

2025 book nineteen: Thomas Pynchon: Vineland ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

#bookstodon #bookstagram #fiction #2025books #books #ThomasPynchon #vineland #paperback

„Once the technical means of control have reached a certain size, a certain degree of being connected one to another, the chances for freedom are over for good. The word has ceased to have meaning."
Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow p.548
#ThomasPynchon #GravitysRainbow

„Once the technical means of control have reached a certain size, a certain degree of being connected one to another, the chances for freedom are over for good. The word has ceased to have meaning."
Thomas Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow p.548
#ThomasPynchon #GravitysRainbow

#ThomasPynchon #Postmodern #PostModernLiterature

A great video analysis of #GravitysRainbow

The video essay has a slightly too obvious title. However, the essay itself has things to say beyond the synopsis of a book most won't read or of being an introduction to the same experience.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdOCNEJYtOM

"And other grandfolks could be heard arguing the perennial question of whether the United States still lingered in a prefascist twilight, or whether that darkness had fallen long stupefied years ago, and the light they thought they saw was coming only from millions of Tubes all showing the same bright-colored shadows."

Thomas Pynchon, Vineland, 371

#ThomasPynchon #Vineland #literature #fascism #television #ard #zdf

The favorite authors meme @bookstodon

#7AuthorsToKnowMe

#JimDodge
#ThomasPynchon
#KatherineDunn
#CormacMccarthy
#WilliamFaulkner
#HarukiMurakami
#NeilGaiman

https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/04/05/the-machine-all-of-us-created-together/
Just some sci fi geek rambling about what "the machine" is and what role AI and humans have to play in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF34N4gJAKE
#Technology, #AI, #Artificial Intelligence, #Bonobo, #Computers, #Consciousness, #Cyriak, #GravitysRainbow, #JohnnyRebeck, #JohnnyVerbeck, #Machine, #MIA, #RyeRye, #SausageMachine, #ThomasPynchon, #Pynchon

Ninth-fifteenth: MASON & DIXON, THE STAND, GRIMMISH, NEGATIVE SPACE, HOUSE OF LEAVES, A SCENT OF NEW-MOWN HAY and A TALE OF TWO CITIES.

https://captainfez.com/2023/03/14/book-reviews-six-or-so-no-its-six/

#noxp #books2023 #books #kindle #fiction #bookstodon #thomaspynchon #masonanddixon #michaelwinkler #grimmish #bryeager #negativespace #houseofleaves #markzdanielewski #ascentofnewmownhay #johnblackburn #charlesdickens #ataleoftwocities

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 present.
@[email protected] for @[email protected]

#ThomasPynchon #Pynchon #GravitysRainbow #novel #bookstodon

https://www.wired.com/story/living-under-gravitys-rainbow-thomas-pynchon/

#7Books - #novels - to know me:
#Ulysses - #JamesJoyce
#MansFate / #LaConditionHumaine - #AndréMalraux
#AnotherCountry - #JamesBaldwin
#MrsDalloway - #VirginiaWoolf
#TheMasterAndMargarita - #MikhailBulgakov
#GravitysRainbow - #ThomasPynchon
#TheDispossessed - #UrsulaKLeGuin
If you asked me tomorrow, this would change. #7bookstoknowme #novels #literature #LitStudies @litstudies

OK #Bookstodon, so it is time for #7books that made a difference in my life, restricted to books that I have not [yet] read in full.

1. "Naked Lunch" by #WilliamSewardBurroughs

2. "Gravity's Rainbow" by #ThomasPynchon, obsession of my 20s! Note I technically read to the final page of this book the third time I tried reading it, but there are vast portions of the book are terra incognita for me.

3. "Regeneration Through Violence" by #RichardSlotkin

/1

#Books and me:

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail of '72 - #HunterSThompson
Snow Crash - #NealStephenson
I Am Legend - #RichardMatheson
The Baroque Cycle - #NealStephenson
Perdido Street Station - #ChinaMiéville
Under The Banner of Heaven - #JonKrakauer
Blood Meridian or the Evening Redness in the West - #CormacMcCarthy
Slaughterhouse-Five - #KurtVonnegutJr
The Crying of Lot 49 - #ThomasPynchon
If He Hollers Let Him Go - #ChesterHimes

I could go on and on....