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>They took her down to the Four Corners and put her so one of her knees was in Utah, one in Colorado, one elbow in Arizona and the other in New Mexico—with the point of insertion exactly above the mythical crosshairs itself. Then rotated her all four different ways. Her small features pressed into the dirt, the blood-red dirt.

>They took her down to the Four Corners and put her so one of her knees was in Utah, one in Colorado, one elbow in Arizona and the other in New Mexico—with the point of insertion exactly above the mythical crosshairs itself. Then rotated her all four different ways. Her small features pressed into the dirt, the blood-red dirt.
Do you think he's ever written pseudonymous internet smut?

there's this guy called thomas pynchon, you probably haven't heard of him :)

700 pages into this, I think I've smiled or laughed at every chapter so far

>>13283942
>riffing on quaternions
I always felt like the pynchmeister was his true heir

well there's this guy I think they call him tommy pinecone

Cyprian.

SPOILERS AHEAD

There's a completely absurd amount of coincidental meetings. Is P just a hack when it comes to plot or should we make something out of it?

What was the point of the harmonica (CoC musical school) interlude? The bit when they return to their original identities is great in any case...

Is Pynchon a luddite? Some sort of anarcho-primitivist? The man lives in NY, perhaps the least primitivistic place in the world, yet the thesis of the book is extremely anti-city. There's the bit out "each regards the other" that suggests some sort of middle ground.

Book argues plenty "against the day", but not enough for the night. Pretty clearly has some sort of nostalgia for the "old west", but come on. Is it intended to be convincing or is there something else going on?

Are we seriously supposed to believe that genius mathematician, adventurer, world traveler, BDSM enthusiast Yashmeen is happy living like a fucking hermit in the middle of nowhere?

What's the angle on the time theme?

How do the themes of time-light-lines connect? Relativity ties together light and time? Lines are space. Spacetime? How does that relate to the rest of the book, how is it "against the day"?

Connection to M&D: this is for engineering what M&D was for science? This vanishing of the invisible stuff... ? But this is also an alternate parallel world (biloc!), not so much for M&D,

The oncoming war starts appearing when Kit is going over to Europe. Is this an implication that WWI was somehow the fault of Americans?

Loses its way a bit with all the BDSM and the spying stuff, no? Disconnected thematically and narratively. Some hints with the "primitive" Balcan people and the railway but...

What's the deal with the winds? Bora, Sirocco, Mistral, etc. their names come up over and over.

Why did Vibe change his mind on the Traverses after seemingly making peace?

How does it compare with Mason & Dixon and Gravity's Rainbow?

How is this?

>>5006434
This fucker will be the death of me.
This has been a year of postmodern door-stoppers for me, as I've also read IJ and 2666. This book on the other hand feels so much larger than those other two, chiefly cause when I read it I feel as if this is a snapshot of something so much larger than anything, if anything it feels like it's holding back, like Pynchon described an entire alternative universe to a tee and this is the greatest hits of what he wrote.

Still as much as I like elements of it like this there's no denying the quality of passages, and the characters, is a mixed bag from great to shit.

Any of you guys read this? What did you think? Would recommend?

Why is this book considered to be worse than M&D, GR, COL49, and V?