Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Pynchon
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and nonfiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth8 March 1937
CityGlen Cove, NY
CountryUnited States of America
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
She would give them order. She would create constellations
She thought of a sunrise over the library slope at Cornell University that nobody out on it had seen because the slope faces west.
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.
A weapon based on Time . . ." mused Viktor Mulciber. "Well, why not? The one force no one knows how to defeat, resist, or reverse. It kills all forms of life sooner or later. With a Time-weapon you could become the most feared person in history." "I'd rather be loved," said Root. Mulciber shrugged. "You're young.
But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist.
Liebig himself seems to have occupied the role of a gate, or sorting-demon, such as his younger contemporary Clerk Maxwell once proposed, helping to concentrate energy into one favored room of the Creation at the expense of everything else.
There is nothing so loathsome as a sentimental surrealist.
Our history is an aggregate of last moments
For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross
Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.
Not me, paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.
Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.