#thomas pynchon

[quotespile]

A screaming comes across the sky. It has happened before, but there is nothing to compare it to now.

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

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[litsnaps]

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[dark-but-just-a-game]

Martin Scorsese, to the New York Times, after they published an article shortly after Federico Fellini passed away calling his movies- and other 'foreign' movies of the same ilk- 'hard work'

#moodboard #martin scorsese #filmmaking #the new york times #90s film #federico fellini #not him calling out the shitty discourse around film all the way back to the 90s #ingmar bergman #andy warhol #james joyce #bernardo bertolucci #john cage #thomas pynchon #alain resnais

[dabiconcordia]

If you see a train this evening, Far away, against the sky, Lie down in your woolen blanket, Sleep and let the train go by.

Trains have called us, every midnight, From a thousand miles away, Trains that pass through empty cities, Trains that have no place to stay.

No one drives the locomotive, No one tends the staring light, Trains have never needed riders, Trains belong to bitter night.

Railway stations stand deserted, Rights-of-way lie clear and cold, What we left them, trains inherit, Trains go on, and we grow old.

Let them cry like cheated lovers, Let their cries find only wind, Trains are meant for night and ruin, And we are meant for song and sin.” ― Thomas Pynchon

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[sivavakkiyar]

Gravity’s Rainbow

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[fuckyeahthomaspynchon]

"Kekule dreams the Great Serpent holding its own tail in its mouth, the dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World. But the meanness, the cynicism with which this dream is to be used. The Serpent that announces, "The World is a closed thing, cyclical, resonant, eternally-returning," is to be delivered in too a system whose only aim is to violate the Cycle. Taking and not giving back, demanding that "productivity" and "earnings" keep on increasing with time, the System removing from the rest of the World these vast quantities of energy to keep its own tiny desperate fraction showing a profit: and not only most of humanity - most of the World, animal, vegetable, and mineral, is laid waste in the process. The System may or may not understand that it's only buying time. And that time is an artificial resource to begin with, of no value to anyone or anything but the System, which sooner or later must crash to its death, when its addiction to energy has become more than the rest of the World can supply, dragging with it innocent souls all along the chain of life. "

-Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

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[haveyoureadthisbook-poll]

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[gormengeist]

Gormengeist's official top 10 Gravity's Rainbow covers, from least (top) to beast (bottom)

#gravitys rainbow #thomas pynchon

[kieselguhrkid]

Shasta Fay Hepworth || INHERENT VICE (2014) Yet here she was now, same getup, same carefree attitude, as if she still hadn't even met Mickey Wolfmann, as if some stereo needle had been lifted and set back down on some other sentimental oldie on the compilation LP of history.

#filmedit #inherent vice #paul thomas anderson #thomas pynchon #shasta fay hepworth #katherine waterston #g #偷图死妈 看电影賊编因为偷图全家已经推进焚化炉

[saint-daimon]

“What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.” -Thomas Pynchon, Inherent Vice

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[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Thomas Pynchon - V. - Bantam - 1968

#witches #v.s #occult #vintage #v. #bantam books #thomas pynchon #profanes #owlglasses #stencils #1968

[quotespile]

In recent weeks, in true messianic style, it has come clear to her that her real identity is, literally, the Force of Gravity. I am Gravity, I am That against which the Rocket must struggle, to which the prehistoric wastes submit and are transmuted to the very substance of History.

Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

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[addictivecontradiction]

Inherent vice, 2014

#comedy #crime #drama #inherent vice #paul thomas anderson #thomas pynchon #joaquin phoenix #josh brolin #solidarity

[figcatlists]

Metaphysical detective stories (and other literary mysteries)

A list of books classified as metaphysical detective fiction, as well as other unusual literary mysteries that play with or subvert crime genre conventions. See the full list on my website for more than 90 titles in this vein, each with links to Goodreads and Wikipedia.

#book recs #book recommendations #reading list #book list #detective fiction #mystery #paul auster #umberto eco #thomas pynchon #alain robbe grillet #jorge luis borges #haruki murakami

[gravity-rainbow]

When times are hard, and we feel at the mercy of forces many times more powerful, don't we, in seeking some equalizer, turn, if only in imagination, in wish, to the Badass -the djinn, the golem, the hulk, the superhero- who will resist what otherwise would overwhelm us? Thomas Pynchon

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[philosophybitmaps]

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