I love the discussion of the Black Hole of Calcutta and how it distorts history. It's a discussion of relativity in 18th century language.
― Frederik B, Friday, 27 September 2013 11:16 (ten years ago) link
He returned to quite a few themes in ATD - perhaps most memorably the hollow-earth theory - but I think they got fairly distinct treatments. ATD is rangier, more flippantly-written, more overtly psychedelic, more revolutionary in tone. M&D is very technical, subtly-detailed and elusive. It's almost an acknowledgement that America will always escape itself - that too much has been staked.
Oh - there were numerous astonishing sentences. Cherrycoke on History and its uses springs to mind (in fact, every Cherrycoke extract was incredible really, ditto Tox). There's one paragraph, spoken by an Indian to 'defecates-with-pigeons', that is one of the most haunting paragraphs I've read
― C/3 Jenks kakling Neu! military£ absinthe snkkt! pckls Özil JTCF njhtdgs (imago), Friday, 27 September 2013 11:18 (ten years ago) link
You could not be the Giants of long ago, who would simply have wip'd us away, and for less
― C/3 Jenks kakling Neu! military£ absinthe snkkt! pckls Özil JTCF njhtdgs (imago), Friday, 27 September 2013 11:21 (ten years ago) link
"Coprophagously-agrin" is the phrase that sticks in my head,
― Matt DC, Friday, 27 September 2013 11:24 (ten years ago) link
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fart_Proudly
― j., Thursday, 20 November 2014 15:32 (nine years ago) link
#pynchoninpublic remembering my favorite Pynchon in that special day pic.twitter.com/ME4YXKH9cP— David Tena (@Davirutena79) May 8, 2022
― mark s, Sunday, 8 May 2022 12:59 (one year ago) link
(adding: dr vick's brother once played me "sailing to philadelphia" on the ukelele)
(attn real hedz: we larfed non-stop)
― mark s, Sunday, 8 May 2022 13:01 (one year ago) link