donutage (Bill Cole)Happy Peter Pinguid Day!
"What happened on the night of the 9th March, 1864, a day now held sacred by all Peter Pinguid Society members, is not too clear.… Attack, retaliation, both projectiles deep-sixed forever and the Pacific rolls on."
Darth Hideout 🏳️🌈Tyrone Slothrop arrested by London Police for stalking women.
Chris W.»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
EP 5: Use Your Allusion (W/Prof. David Cowart) by Slow Learners
We wrap the first part of Gravity's Rainbow (chapters 18-21), which sees Pointsman getting lucky, Slothrop shipped off to the Riviera, and Roger and Jessica checking out a cheeky Christmas panto. In this episode, we're joined by David Cowart, author of Thomas Pynchon and the Dark Passages of History and Thomas Pynchon: The Art of Allusion, to talk about the history of the postmodern novel, and how Gravity's Rainbow defines the form. Other topics include: Chaucer, Joyce, Christmas Parties, if the British put a moratorium on German art during WWII, meta-narratives, Jerry Garcia, Weimar Germany, Marxists, the cult of the rocket, poster pasting, probability, the mechanical model of the human mind, Newtonian reality vs. Heisenbergian reality, entropy. Read Proverbs For Paranoids, John's guide to Gravity's Rainbow. E-mail us your questions, queries, and crackpot theories: slowlearnerspod@gmail.com And/or... Leave us a voicemail by calling (609) 353-6873.
"Pynchon’s clear doubts about whether America can overcome its attraction to fascism are bearing unwanted fruit in 2025. The doubts have been proven right. Pynchon’s view of the American right is plainly and perversely stated in Shadow Ticket when one character says to another, of youth described as “Hitlerboys” in a changing Hamburg, “I want to believe they’re only being obnoxious but I think it’s worse than that.” The response is curt: “It’s worse.”"
https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/thomas-pynchon-saw-american-fascism-coming
AngryGirlKRereading #Pynchon and Finn doesn’t seem to be a fan. Can’t win em all, I suppose. 🐈⬛📚
#catstodon #bookstodon
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grantpotter“a theremin of uneasiness, sliding around a narrow band of notes, in which it’s said you may come to hear repeated melodies, themes and variations, which is when you know you’re going bughouse, with only a very short period of grace to try and escape before it no longer matters." #pynchon https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/thomas-pynchon-saw-american-fascism-coming
Dirk Haun"You might consider us an encapsulated volume of pre-Facist space-time, forever on the move"
Ich habe jetzt den aktuellen #Pynchon Shadow Ticket endlich durch. Und leider auf Deutsch gelesen.
Wie schon bei Mason & Dixon glaube ich, dass die beiden Übersetzer einfach nicht so gut sind (wie Wulf Teichmann bei Crying oder Elfriede Jelinek bei Gravity’s Rainbow), auch wenn sie den Hardboiled-Noir-Ton meist okay treffen. Aber die vielen Wortspiele kriegen sie nicht hin.
Hörtipp:
Mapping the Zone: A Thomas Pynchon discussion podcast: Shadow Ticket https://rss.com/podcasts/mapping-the-zone/2295259
"(...) an evil moron, dangerous not for his intellect, what there may be of it, but for the power that his ill-deserved wealth allows him to exert, which his admirers pretend is will, though it never amounts to more than the stubborness of a child ..."