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Here it is, the definitive answer to "I'm new to Pynchon, where should I start?"4 stars. Fast, funny, frequently witty and occasionally wise. Much more linear and much less dense than his other works (except Lot 49 which come to think is actually whe ...more "
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"There's a lot to love but my favorite joke is the shoe salesmen call Hicks "Zoomer," short for "Montezuma," because his shoes are Triple-E." — Mar 08, 2026 10:04AM
"There's a lot to love but my favorite joke is the shoe salesmen call Hicks "Zoomer," short for "Montezuma," because his shoes are Triple-E." — Mar 08, 2026 10:04AM
now what if we—all right, say we are supposed to be the Kabbalists out here, say that’s our real Destiny, to be the scholar-magicians of the Zone, with somewhere in it a Text, to be picked to pieces, annotated, explicated, and masturbated
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THESIS PT 1
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“You come in all clammed up, defences in depth, alibi-systems long established, delusions full-blown. In order to have a chance of staying sober, or rather of staying dry and becoming sober, you've got to change. Nobody likes to change. What you really want, when you come into hospital, even for the second or third or ninth time, is to stay just who you are and not drink. That's not possible, of course. Jack-Who-Drinks has got to alter into Jack-Who-Does-Not-Drink-And-Likes-It.”
― Recovery
― Recovery
“It's not years nor days, but the mind, that determines that we've lived enough.”
― How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
― How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
“(and your grandfather said, 'Suffer little children to come unto Me': and what did He mean by that? how, if He meant that little children should need to be suffered to approach Him, what sort of earth had He created; that if they had to suffer in order to approach Him, what sort of Heaven did He have?)”
― Absalom, Absalom!
― Absalom, Absalom!
“The approach of a man's life out of the past is history, and the approach of time out of the future is mystery. Their meeting is the present, and it is consciousness, the only time life is alive.”
― Recollected Essays, 1965-1980
― Recollected Essays, 1965-1980
“If you could take one ride in a time machine, which way would you go? The future or the past? Sally forth or turn back?...Do you prefer the costumed pageant of history or the techno-marvels to come? It seems there are two kinds of people. Both camps have their optimists as well as their pessimists. Disease is a worry. Time traveling while black or female poses special hazards. Then again, some people see ways to make money at lotteries, stock markets, and racetracks. Some just want to relive past loves. Many back travelers are driven by regret—mistakes made, opportunities lost.”
― Time Travel: A History
― Time Travel: A History
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