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An extremely quiet and brutally devastating final moments at Putzi's between Slothrop, Ilse and Bodine. It has truly never been more Tyrover Slothrover for my guy

Rocket Noon.

when the homie finally succumbs to the invisible Machine of wickedness and corruption which has been following him since birth <<<

Tyrone Slothrop. Rocketman. Simply a character I think about all of the time and a character that I will think about forever. An incredible literary creation

the scene in APOCALYPSE NOW when the soldier tells Colonel Kilgore “someday this war *is* gonna end” and then the camera lingers on Kilgore’s melancholic and longing face for an extra second as he process that information. I think ab that scene a lot when reading this book

Part 2: Un Perm' au Casino Hermann Goering ✅

Tyrone Slothrop's state-appointed Southern European sojourn leading up to and post VE Day. While the surrounding world celebrates a return to normalcy and a peacetime existence, Pynhcon paints a more awkward and anxious reality for his characters participating in his "True War" of markets.

I am beginning to think this siesta into the French Riviera will not end well for our dear pal Tyrone Slothrop

Part One: Beyond the Zero ✅

The last half of this section between Roger and Jessica moved me nearly to tears and features some of the most raw, beautiful and heartbreaking passages I have ever read. Pynchon was really one of America's greatest yearners.

“Gwenhidwhy inside his fluffy beard never as impassive as he might have wished, Spectro hurrying away with a syringe for his Fox, when nothing can really stop the Abreaction of the Lord of the Night unless the Blitz stops, rockets dismantle, the entire film runs backward: faired skin back to sheet steel back to pigs to white incandescence to ore; to Earth”

how do you just write these words.

Accidentally enrolling yourself in a course>>>

*guy very seriously opining to a brick wall*

I am choosing to believe that PTA got the title for his forthcoming, Pynchon adaptation from the "Celebration of Markets" passage & Katje's interrogation.

Nobody is better at one specific thing than Thomas Pynchon is at naming characters. There is a man in this book named Kevin Spectro and hes not even a podium finisher

can i finish this book before the events play out irl lets see

It was always ever leading to this

Joan starting a sentence “I tell you this…” is the literary equivalent of Lebron stopping and staring at his right hand before hitting a dagger three ball

Not even the edition that I am reading but I had no choice to switch to this one on here bc of how much aura this cover has

Her conviction that François Truffaut wasn't actually deaf in his left ear is an extremely good bit.

Julia Phillips indiscriminately taking a verbal machete to an entire generation of Hollywood and it rocks so hard that the only person she has no smoke for is Joan Didion. That's really my goat

(John Gregory Dunne was not so lucky unfort)

*dapping up my 291 year old blind octopedal alien homie*

"whats up slime"

chasing the thoroughly researched historical document about mankind's wayward, decaying soul with a work of pure fiction about the world and its institutions altruistically working together amidst adversity 😀👍