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> [“Christmas Eve, 1955, Benny Profane, wearing black levis, suede jacket, sneakers and big cowboy hat, happened to pass through Norfolk, Virginia. Given to sentimental impulses, he thought he'd look in on the Sailor's Grave, his old tin can's tavern on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/christmas-eve-1955-benny-profane-wearing-black-levis-suede-jacket/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

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## More by Thomas Pynchon

> [“How strange tonight, this city. As if something trembled below its surface, waiting to burst through.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/how-strange-tonight-this-city-as-if-something-trembled-below-its/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“It was one of those great iron afternoons in London: the yellow sun being teased apart by a thoasand chimneys breathing, fawning upward without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/it-was-one-of-those-great-iron-afternoons-in-london-the-yellow-sun/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“Surely for as long as there have been nights as bad as this one---something to raise the possibility of another night that could actually,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/surely-for-as-long-as-there-have-been-nights-as-bad-as-this-one/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/death-glided-by-shadowless-among-the-empties-on-the-grass/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/people-read-what-news-they-wanted-to-and-each-accordingly-built-his/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“Out of that night and day of unconditional wrath, folks would've expected to see any city, if it survived, all newly reborn, purified by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/out-of-that-night-and-day-of-unconditional-wrath-folks-would-ve/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“As spread thighs are to the libertine...so was the letter V to young Stencil.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/as-spread-thighs-are-to-the-libertine-so-was-the-letter-v-to-young/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“Oedipa wondered whether, at the end of this (if it were supposed to end), she too might not be left with only compiled memories…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/oedipa-wondered-whether-at-the-end-of-this-if-it-were-supposed-to-end/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/if-they-can-get-you-asking-the-wrong-questions-they-don-t-have-to/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“remember didn't you sneak away from camp to have a moment alone with What you felt stirring across the land . . . it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/remember-didn-t-you-sneak-away-from-camp-to-have-a-moment-alone-with/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“Through rain...then through dreaming glass, green with the evening. And herself in chair, old-fashioned, bonneted, looking west over the deck of Earth, inferno red…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/through-rain-then-through-dreaming-glass-green-with-the-evening-and/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“She knew instinctively: he will be fine as the fraternity boy just out of an Ivy League school who knows he will never stop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/she-knew-instinctively-he-will-be-fine-as-the-fraternity-boy-just-out/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“Lovely morning, World War Two.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/lovely-morning-world-war-two/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [“Listen to anything and take it apart again. Spectrum analysis, in my head. I can break down chords, and timbres, and words too into…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/listen-to-anything-and-take-it-apart-again-spectrum-analysis-in-my/)

[Thomas Pynchon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-pynchon/)

> [A screaming comes across the sky.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-pynchon/a-screaming-comes-across-the-sky/)

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