pynchon

If this is a topic you find interesting, take a look at the Pynchon Gate [2].

People will be reading Pynchon 30 years from now, but they won't be reading Lynn Viehl.

In this way Pynchon creates a dreamy vivid world that's a plaything for the mind.

Reading Pynchon or DFWallace is a pretty similar emotional experience, in my book.

I find Pynchon a pleasure to read despite the lack of plot or clear narrative motion.

How many copies of his books did Pynchon (for example) sell?

I really wish Pynchon had written more essays (or have I simply missed them?).

I wish Pynchon had written more of these short critical lens essays.

Thomas Pynchon is everything that's wrong with postmodernism.

I've been reading his stuff since 1986 and he can be as innovative and experimental as Philip K Dick, JG Ballard, or Thomas Pynchon while still being fun and readable.

There exists what people call an 'information bubble' of the sort Pynchon predicted I had quoted - where the availability of the information in theory is overshadowed by the immediacy and digestibility of the information that is familiar.

> in any case low-latency low-bandwidth mixnet messaging is very hard versus nation-state adversaries with traffic correlation abilities Indeed, The Pynchon Gate[1] paper indicates that intersection attacks can break any mixnet, to include high-latency mixnet.

Right, because Joyce, Pynchon, and Nabokov would have benefited from being told to write "as little as possible".

Some of Pynchon's other, more approachable books have been interesting but not, for me, "wow that was truly incredible" interesting.

> Right, because Joyce, Pynchon, and Nabokov would have benefited from being told to write "as little as possible".

Thomas Pynchon riffed on this story extensively with his iconic (for geeks) 1974 novel "Gravity's Rainbow" in the tale of "Byron the Bulb".

This is a fascinating piece - especially concerning Pynchon's coverage of the class warfare aspect to machinery-as-capital.

Another of Pynchon's prescient fantasy creations that is breaking into reality, the sentient light bulbs are self aware and communicate with each other.

I've been reading Pynchon's Against The Day for the better part of a decade now.