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This spiritualist, this statistician, what are you anyway?

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Thomas Pynchon
Age: 87
Born: 1937
Born: May 8
Essayist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Glen Cove
New York
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon
Spiritualist
Statistician
Anyway

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Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished light is the worst. Light in his dreams, was always hope: the basic, moral hope. As the contacts break helically away, hope turns to darkness, and the glassblower wakes sharply tonight crying, Who? Who?
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My mother is the war,' declares Roger Mexico, leaning over to open the door.
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Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?
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I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It’s the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart.
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[Oedipa Maas] awoke at last to find herself getting laid.
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Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of Godel's Theorem.
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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.
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Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.
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But as with Maxwell's Demon, so now. Either she could not communicate, or he did not exist.
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What’s this? What are the antagonists doing here – infiltrating their own audience? Well, they’re not really. It’s somebody else’s audience at the moment, and these nightly spectacles are an appreciable part of the darkside hours of life of the rocket capital. The chances for any paradox here, really, are less than you think.
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I dream that I have found us both again, With spring so many strangers' lives away, And we, so free, Out walking by the sea, With someone else's paper words to say.... They took us at the gates of green return, Too lost by then to stop, and ask them why- Do children meet again? Does any trace remain, Along the superhighways of July?
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Ills are many, blessings few, but dreams tonight will shelter you.
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The anarchist is dressed all in black. In the dark you can only see his eyes. It dates from the 1930's. Porky Pig is a little boy. The children told me that he has a nephew now, Cicero. Do you remember, during the war, when Porky worked in a defense plant? He and Bugs Bunny. That was a good one too.
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All variables are independent.
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Danger's over, Banana Breakfast is saved.
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Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.
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If America was a person, and it sat down, Lancaster town would be plunged into a Darkness unbreathable.
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Some of us are afraid of dying others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.
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Can't say it often enough — change your hair, change your life.
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It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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