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Chris W.Es gibt sie, die guten Nachrichten aus den <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#USA</a> , ein neuer <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pynchon</a><a href="https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000265105/neuer-roman-von-us-autor-thomas-pynchon-erscheint-im-oktober" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000265105/neuer-roman-von-us-autor-thomas-pynchon-erscheint-im-oktober</a><a href="https://zirk.us/tags/bookstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a>

Susan Maxwell @ BdRI have been reading Pynchon's 'V'; difficult to read in short bursts, so I set aside a couple of hours for it this morning. Pig Bodine's fist has just been described as looking like a badger with pituitary trouble, so it's all good. <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/AmReading" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#AmReading</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#books</a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Pynchon</a>

Prentiss Riddle 🎛<a href="https://mastodon.social/@fesshole" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@fesshole</a> Is that anything like the subject of the "English Candy Drill" chapter in "Gravity's Rainbow"?<a href="http://bella.media.mit.edu/people/foner/Fun/gravity.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">http://bella.media.mit.edu/people/foner/Fun/gravity.html</a><a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pynchon</a> <a href="https://mstdn.io/tags/candy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#candy</a>

(((Cindy Weinstein)))Inherent Ice<a href="https://zirk.us/tags/SnowedOutMoviesAndShows" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#SnowedOutMoviesAndShows</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/HashTagGames" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#HashTagGames</a> <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pynchon</a>

Kevin Bowen :xfce:Took a slight detour while reading <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pynchon</a> 's V. to refresh my understanding of Benny Profane's schlemiel-ishness and wikipedia gifted me this gem:<a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/yiddish" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#yiddish</a>

Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈The UBI is from Vineland, <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pynchon</a>'s 4th novel.I remember reading a review when it came out, in 1990, by Salman <a href="https://c.im/tags/Rushdie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Rushdie</a>, before the fatwa was lifted & he was himself in hiding. Pynchon was famously reclusive. Rushdie wrote:"Like, I can dig it, man, but he ought to try it when it's not a voluntary choice." 😂<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59721.Vineland" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/59721.Vineland</a><a href="https://c.im/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/novels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#novels</a>

Darth Hideout 🏳️‍🌈Thomas <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pynchon</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.Even JRR <a href="https://c.im/tags/Tolkien" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Tolkien</a> spun a verse marveling at its wonders.One recipe to rule them all, One mortar to grind them, One ingredient to coat them all And in a casserole bind them.<a href="https://c.im/tags/food" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#food</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/humor" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#humor</a>

MikeDunnAuthorTatzelwurm. Or mountain dragon of the southern European mountains. Aka cat dragon. Referenced in Thomas Pynchons "Against The Day," when Reef Traverse is digging tunnels in Austria with an Albanian who is escaping a vendetta. <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pynchon</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#novel</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

craque sprung 🏳️‍🌈Ballard's Drowned World is 1962.So far it gives me strong Bradbury, Pynchon, and Delaney feels.Ray and JG were contemporary and I think it shows. In a good way!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.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.This is all probably somehow the fault of Paul Bowles.<a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstodon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/JGBallard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#JGBallard</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/DrownedWorld" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DrownedWorld</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pynchon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/GravitysRainbow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#GravitysRainbow</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Bradbury" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Bradbury</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PaulBowles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#PaulBowles</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday 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.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.<a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/guatemala" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#guatemala</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/genocide" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#genocide</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/indigenous" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#indigenous</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/communism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#communism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/socialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#socialism</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/arbenz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arbenz</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/torture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#torture</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/cia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#cia</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Revolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Revolution</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pynchon</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/garciamarquez" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#garciamarquez</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pabloneruda" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pabloneruda</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/poetry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#poetry</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/ficiton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ficiton</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/historicalfiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#historicalfiction</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/novels" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#novels</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/author" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#author</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/writer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#writer</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/bookstadon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@bookstadon</a>

JohnGravity'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!<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/literature" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#literature</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pynchon</a>

icasticoBeen 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pynchon</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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#bookstodon</a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/fiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fiction</a>

Toby SteinerVisiting my partner in Greifswald, her uni work place, for a couple of days ... 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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pynchon</a>

dana hilliotChien qui parle (Pynchon)“Un petit groupe bruyant d’Élégants, de Gandins ou de Lunariens, – il est difficile de se prononcer là-dessus, – s’est frayé un chemin dans la ruelle et arrive à portée de voix. Derrière plusieurs carreaux on distingue une bougie qui progresse. Des valets d’écurie se retournent, renfrognés, sur des paillasses. Des porte-lanternes en maraude scrutent l’intérieur, pour voir s’ils peuvent jeter quelque lumière à propos. De sa tête, le Chien pousse la jambe de Mason. « Nous n’aurons peut-être pas d’autre occasion de converser, même à brûle-pourpoint. – Je dois m’assurer d’une chose, murmure Mason d’une voix rauque, sur le ton d’un amant tourmenté par le doute. As-tu une âme, enfin, es-tu un Esprit humain, réincarné en chien ? » Le C.S.A. cligne de l’œil, frissonne, hoche la tête d’un air résigné. « Vous n’êtes pas le premier à poser la question. Des voyageurs rentrés des Archipels du Levant évoquent certaines Énigmes religieuses connues sous le nom de Koan, dont la plus connue sans doute concerne justement votre question, – à savoir si un chien a la nature du Bouddha divin. Une réponse apportée par un certain Maître très-sage est : “Mu !” – “Mu”, répète Mason, songeur. – Celui qui cherche doit de toute nécessité méditer sur le Koan jusqu’à se retrouver dans un état de Folie sacrée, – ce que je vous recommande en particulier. Mais de grâce n’allez point consulter le Chien Savant Anglais si vous aspirez à quelque Réconfort religieux. Il se peut que je sois extraordinaire, mais je ne suis en rien surnaturel. Nous sommes à l’Époque des Lumières, rrrhuf ? Il y a toujours une explication à tout, et les chiens qui parlent n’existent pas, – les chiens qui parlent sont comme les Dragons et les Licornes. En revanche, il existe des réserves qui permettent de survivre dans un monde moins prodigieux. « Je m’explique. – Jadis, la seule raison pour laquelle les hommes gardaient les chiens, c’était pour se nourrir. Ayant remarqué que parmi les hommes aucun Crime n’était aussi abhorré que celui qui consistait à manger la Chair d’un autre homme, le chien apprit rapidement à se comporter de la façon la plus humaine qui soit, – et à transmettre cette Faculté à ses chiots. Aussi savons-nous à présent comment susciter en vous, les hommes, au jour le jour, au moins assez de compassion pour survivre une journée de plus. Néanmoins, si policées soient-elles, nos Existences ne sont jamais sans risque, – nous allons telles des Shéhérazade qui agitent la queue, toujours à un pas de la terrible Palme, repoussant chaque Nuit les lames de nos maîtres en leur rapportant les Récits de leur humanité. Je ne suis qu’une expression extrême de cette Évolution… – Non mais, un chien empalmé, quel galimatias, commente l’un des Lunariens. Vraiment, beaucoup trop sensible, non, sans blague, chien ? A palme ? Les Êtres civilisés ont mieux à faire que de baver après un chien empalmé ou je ne sais quoi, n’est-ce pas Algernon ? – Pourriez-vous, je vous prie, demande le Terrier, la tête penchée d’un air contrarié, cesser de répéter cela ? Moi, je ne dis pas des choses comme “Macaronis à l’italienne”, ce me semble, ou “Fricassée de fats”… – Dis donc, sale petite bestiole… – Grrrr ! et votre usage délibéré de “baver”, Monsieur, est vil. » Le Lunarien porte la main à son couteau. « Peut-être pouvons-nous régler l’affaire sur-le-champ, Monsieur. – Derek ! Tu parles à un chien ? – Bien que votre arme me mette dans une posture quelque peu désavantageuse, fait remarquer le Chien, pour être juste, je me dois de mentionner ma récente Aversion pour l’Eau. Laquelle, vous ne l’ignorez point, marque le début de l’Hydrophobie. Oui ! La fameuse H. Et quand je réussirais à esquiver votre lame et à m’adonner à quelques plaisantes morsures, allant jusqu’à entamer votre Cuir, – ma foi, vous aurez vitement contracté la même chose, non ? » Il se crée aussitôt autour du Chien un cercle d’Absence, d’un rayon d’une brasse environ, dont les deux Astronomes se souviendront plus tard comme étant d’une forme remarquablement régulière. « Gentil, le chien !(Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon, Ch.3, traduction Claro & Brice Matthieussent) Le fameux et cultissime chien qui parle (et dont les cousins ne sont pas rares dans l’œuvre de Pynchon, voir par exemple dans Against the Day (Contre-jour))Pour tous les fans de Pynchon (mais s'ils sont fans, ils le savent déjà !), il existe un fabuleux WIKI décortiquant les plus grands livres de l'auteur. Par exemple pour Mason & Dixon : <a href="https://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://masondixon.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page</a> et pour Against the day :<a href="https://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page</a><a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pynchon</a> <a href="https://climatejustice.social/tags/DogsTalking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DogsTalking</a>

penny (raccoon)cory doctorow's ( <a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a> ) latest post is a review of Kelly Link's "Book of Love": apparently there is a character named Bogomil;Bogomilism being a 10th century gnostic dualist movement, because <a href="https://icosahedron.website/tags/gnosticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gnosticism</a> is so hot right now (at least for me);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 noreferrer" target="_blank">#pynchon</a>'s Against the Day (2006)anyway this one sounds like an intriguing read

Chanders“From the shore they will hear Milkmaids quarreling and cowbells a-clank, and dogs, and Babies old and new, —Hammers upon Nails, Wives upon Husbands, the ring of Pot-lids, the jingling of Draft-chains, a rifle-shot from a stretch of Woods, lengthily crackling tree to tree and across the water . . . An animal will come to a Headland, and stand, regarding them with narrowly set Eyes that glow a Moment. Its Face slowly turning as they pass. America.” -Thomas Pynchon <a href="https://sciences.social/tags/pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pynchon</a>

(((Cindy Weinstein)))It was wonderful talking to and with Professor Gonzalez-Rivas's class about <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Poe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Poe</a>'s poetry. We focused on "The Bells" and "Dream-Land," and the students were thoroughly engaged and their knowledge broad. Lots of other authors came up, including <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Ginsberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Ginsberg</a>, <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pynchon</a>, and <a href="https://zirk.us/tags/morrison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#morrison</a> There seems to be a tradition -- a lovely one -- in Europe, and perhaps elsewhere (though not in the US) of giving speakers certificates like this.

EH LuptonOk so I found out this week that Thurn und Taxis is a real family and they were really involved in the postal service in 16th c. Europe. I'm unreasonably surprised by this. <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#books</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/WASTE" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#WASTE</a> <a href="https://romancelandia.club/tags/pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#pynchon</a>

Archarzel<a href="https://dice.camp/tags/thecryingoflot49" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#thecryingoflot49</a> <a href="https://dice.camp/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pynchon</a>

Mr. CompletelyThe Kirghiz Light feat. Tchitcherine, by Reddit user /u/Easy_Albatross_3538One 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.<a href="https://heads.social/tags/MastoArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#MastoArt</a> <a href="https://heads.social/tags/Books" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Books</a> <a href="https://heads.social/tags/illustration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#illustration</a> <a href="https://heads.social/tags/drawing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#drawing</a> <a href="https://heads.social/tags/comics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#comics</a> <a href="https://heads.social/tags/Pynchon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Pynchon</a>

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