jesse jarnow<p>peter stampfel titled a 1989 album "people's republic of rock and roll," which thomas <a href="https://heads.social/tags/pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pynchon</span></a> used as a thing in "vineland" the next year. was he borrowing from stampfel?! can't find any earlier usages in google books or internet archive or the independent voices database of underground newspapers. <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span></p>
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BlairFor this week’s <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/ThursdayBooksandBeer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ThursdayBooksandBeer</a> I’m blowing my mind with the latest novel by Sergio De La Pava, Every Arc Bends its Radian. It’s a bonkers private detective tale set in Cali, Colombia with a strong Thomas Pynchon vibe. The dialogue has a wonderful aspect for those of us with a modicum of Spanish, with Colombian characters speaking in English using phrases like “for supposition” to mean “of course” as an attempt to translate the Spanish “por supuesto”. In the absence of a Colombian beer available at Redwood Tasting Room, I’ve gone with a ‘Demeter’ American Brown Ale from Hargreaves Hill as a nod to De La Pava’s American origins. “What had I accomplished, really? Close to half a century of litigating the trial of life and at best a deadlocked jury to show for it. Smart to get away from that.” <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/literature?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/reading?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#reading</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/colombia?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#colombia</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/craftbeer?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#craftbeer</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/pynchon?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pynchon</a>
The Virtual Memories Show<p>New newsletter, no new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/podcast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>podcast</span></a>, yes new <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pynchon</span></a>, & more, so GO READ <br><a href="https://buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/shadow-boxing/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">buttondown.com/vmspod/archive/</span><span class="invisible">shadow-boxing/</span></a></p>
Prentiss Riddle 🎛<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@fesshole" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fesshole</span></a></span> </p><p>Is that anything like the subject of the "English Candy Drill" chapter in "Gravity's Rainbow"?</p><p><a href="http://bella.media.mit.edu/people/foner/Fun/gravity.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://</span><span class="ellipsis">bella.media.mit.edu/people/fon</span><span class="invisible">er/Fun/gravity.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pynchon</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/candy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>candy</span></a></p>
(((Cindy Weinstein)))<p>Inherent Ice</p><p><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SnowedOutMoviesAndShows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SnowedOutMoviesAndShows</span></a><br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/HashTagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HashTagGames</span></a> <br><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pynchon</span></a></p>
Kevin Bowen :xfce:<p>Took a slight detour while reading <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pynchon</span></a> 's V. to refresh my understanding of Benny Profane's schlemiel-ishness and wikipedia gifted me this gem:</p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/yiddish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>yiddish</span></a></p>
Darth Hideout 🏳️🌈<p>Thomas <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pynchon</span></a> called it the UBI, the Universal Binding Ingredient. You know it as cream of mushroom soup, the primordial, mass-produced colloid like bleached cranberry sauce, with the blandness of a thousand white suburbs.</p><p>Even JRR <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tolkien</span></a> spun a verse marveling at its wonders.</p><p>One recipe to rule them all,<br>One mortar to grind them,<br>One ingredient to coat them all<br>And in a casserole bind them.</p><p><a href="https://c.im/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>food</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>humor</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Tatzelwurm. Or mountain dragon of the southern European mountains. Aka cat dragon. </p><p>Referenced in Thomas Pynchons "Against The Day," when Reef Traverse is digging tunnels in Austria with an Albanian who is escaping a vendetta. </p><p> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pynchon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>novel</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
craque is icumen in 🏳️🌈<p>Ballard's Drowned World is 1962.</p><p>So far it gives me strong Bradbury, Pynchon, and Delaney feels.</p><p>Ray and JG were contemporary and I think it shows. In a good way!</p><p>It reminds me a lot of Dhalgren (1975), which I may rereread next because I kept losing interest carting around an enormous paperback that has since disappeared. No gay sex yet tho.</p><p>I won't reread Gravity's Rainbow (1973) again (I think), there's others I want to cover. Still have that kilo of a tome.</p><p>This is all probably somehow the fault of Paul Bowles.</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstodon</span></a></span> <a href="https://c.im/tags/JGBallard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JGBallard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DrownedWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DrownedWorld</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pynchon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GravitysRainbow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GravitysRainbow</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bradbury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bradbury</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PaulBowles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PaulBowles</span></a></p>
MikeDunnAuthor<p>Today in Labor History October 19, 1944: A coup was launched against dictator Juan Federico Ponce Vaides, beginning the ten-year Guatemalan Revolution, which led to the rise of democratically elected President Jacobo Árbenz, and the only years that representative democracy existed in Guatemala from 1930 until the end of the civil war in 1996. Arbenz won the presidency in 1950, promising to transform the nation from a feudal economy into a modern, capitalist state. He led the implementation of social, political and agrarian reforms that were influential across Latin America. However, the reform that most angered the wealthy elite, and the leaders of United Fruit, were his agrarian reform policies, including the immediate transfer of all uncultivated land from large landowners to their poverty-stricken laborers.</p><p>United Fruit was the largest corporation operating in Guatemala. They controlled vast territories and transportation networks throughout Central America, Colombia, and the West Indies, and maintained a virtual monopoly in the so-called banana republics of Costa Rica, Honduras, and Guatemala. At the bequest of United Fruit, CIA-director Allan Dulles, who was also a board member of United Fruit, orchestrated a coup that overthrew Arbenz in 1954, leading to decades of genocide against the Indigenous Peoples of Guatemala, as well as the torture and murder of thousands of Communists, Socialists, labor leaders, clergy and activists. In the 1980s, United Fruit officially became Chiquita. Their violence and corruption were described in the works of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Thomas Pynchon, O. Henry, and Pablo Neruda.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>workingclass</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LaborHistory</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/guatemala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>guatemala</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>genocide</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>indigenous</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>communism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>socialism</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/arbenz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>arbenz</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>torture</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cia</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Revolution</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pynchon</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/garciamarquez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>garciamarquez</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pabloneruda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pabloneruda</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>poetry</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ficiton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ficiton</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/historicalfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>historicalfiction</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>novels</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>author</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>writer</span></a> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bookstadon</span></a></span></p>
John<p>Gravity's Rainbow may be the most difficult book I've ever read. I'm about 150 pages in and really enjoying it, although I wouldn't say I'm having fun. And there are paragraphs 4 pages long!</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>books</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>literature</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pynchon</span></a></p>
icastico<p>Been re-reading Gravity’s Rainbow again after many years. In the meantime I have read all of <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pynchon</span></a> ‘s other books. I must say I had forgotten how much work it is. While it has some of his best writing, it is also overall his most disjointed. <a href="https://c.im/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bookstodon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fiction</span></a></p>
Toby Steiner<p>Visiting my partner in Greifswald, her uni work place, for a couple of days ... </p><p>And today, we're out and about, retracing Gravity's Rainbow hero Tyrone Slothrop's footsteps in the Greifswald - Peenemünde - Swinemünde area ... 😄 <a href="https://hcommons.social/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pynchon</span></a></p>
penny (raccoon)<p>cory doctorow's ( <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>pluralistic</span></a></span> ) latest post is a review of Kelly Link's "Book of Love": apparently there is a character named Bogomil;</p><p>Bogomilism being a 10th century gnostic dualist movement, because <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/gnosticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>gnosticism</span></a> is so hot right now (at least for me);</p><p>other literary references to Bogomilism in particular from Eco's Foucault's Pendulum (1988) and <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>pynchon</span></a>'s Against the Day (2006)</p><p>anyway this one sounds like an intriguing read</p>
Mr. Completely<p>The Kirghiz Light feat. Tchitcherine, by Reddit user /u/Easy_Albatross_3538</p><p>One of a long series of drawings by this artist based on scenes from Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow. I love how his use of embedded geometric forms in the landscape and sky suggests latent ambiguous meaning in the image, as if the earth and sky are trying to tell the viewer something. That feeling is very evocative of this iconic scene from the novel.</p><p><a href="https://heads.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MastoArt</span></a> <a href="https://heads.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Books</span></a> <a href="https://heads.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>illustration</span></a> <a href="https://heads.social/tags/drawing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>drawing</span></a> <a href="https://heads.social/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>comics</span></a> <a href="https://heads.social/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pynchon</span></a></p>
Jim Bliss<p>Happy birthday to the great Thomas Pynchon!!</p><p>Nobody else manages to imbue such dark, thought-provoking satire with that amount of joyful absurdity. And without any bitterness or nihilism. His books can be pessimistic, but still life-affirming somehow. I dig the cognitive dissonance almost as much as the luscious prose.</p><p>Without wishing to get morbid though, the dude is 86 today... could he please get a move on with the next book?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/ThomasPynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ThomasPynchon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Pynchon</span></a></p>
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@MostlyHarmless Books aimed at children aren’t necessarily simplistic. Astrid Lindgren? Erich Kästner (for the Germans)? They cover difficult themes like death and poverty in ways that let anyone empathize.
On closer inspection, the distinction between “children” and “adult” books becomes suspiciously slippery.
I’m currently taking a short break from a Thomas #Pynchon book by reading #Pratchett’s Wee Free Men. It’s wonderful 
Gravity’s Rainbow is 50! Read this brilliant appreciation, even if you never read the novel. But go on, read the novel too. Thinking I might go in again… book club, anyone? https://theconversation.com/join-the-counterforce-thomas-pynchons-postmodern-epic-gravitys-rainbow-at-50-196657
The ConversationJoin the Counterforce: Thomas Pynchon's postmodern epic Gravity's Rainbow at 50Short-circuiting the language of literary value, permanently wrongfooting the custodians of taste, Gravity’s Rainbow proposes a new way of thinking about what we treasure most.
I've been listening to a couple of podcasts on Thomas #Pynchon's work.
Strikingly, none of the ~five hosts I listened to had actually read more than three of his books, and none of them very thoroughly.
If the bar for competency is so low, I should probably review the material from both my introductory Python courses, and launch a programming podcast. 
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If you haven’t read #Pynchon:
He’s the kind of writer who will happily take you through three pages of build-up only to drop a joke that consists of rhyming “ejaculate” with “immaculate”.
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