“The Telescope, the Flaxions, the inventions of Logarithms and the frenzy of multiplication, often for its own sake, that follow'd have for… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“At the ukulele workshop that summer. He lectured on the four-note chord in the context of timelessness, and described himself then as… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“San Narciso was a name; an incident among our climatic records of dreams and what dreams became among our accumulated daylight, a… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
She may know a little, may think of herself, face and body, as ‘pretty’…but he could never tell her all the rest,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“It took me till I was lying among the Rats and Vermin, upon the freezing edge of a Future invisible, to understand… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“The row ostensibly has to do with tables versus CSS, a controversial issue of the time, which has always, given its level… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the only reason they survived, Stencil reasoned, was that they were not alone. God knew how many more there were with… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“For that moment at least they seemed to give up external plans, theories, and codes, even the inescapable romantic curiosity about one… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Such a captive maiden, having plenty of time to think, soon realizes that her tower, its height and architecture, are like her… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“. . . yet there is no avoiding time, the sea of time, the sea of memory and forgetfulness, the years of… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
For a moment she'd wondered if the seal around her sockets were tight enough to allow the tears simply to go on… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Some mornings they awake and can believe that they traverse an Eden, unbearably fair in the Dawn, squandering all its Beauty, day… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Ziggy is in front of the tube, as if nothing much has been happening in his day, watching Scooby Goes Latin! (1990).… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Losing faith is a complicated business and takes time. There are no epiphanies, no "moments of truth." It takes much thought and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“There is a Hand to turn the time, Though thy Glass today be run, Till the Light hath brought the Towers low… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“There had been an uprising by the Bondelswaartz in 1922, and general turmoil in the country. His radio experiments interrupted, he sought… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“She told him later that as soon as he took her wrist that night, she came. And the first time he touched… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“The simpler explanation,' Emerson with a distinct uvular component in his Sigh, 'may be that none of you people has ever known… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Everybody who says the same words is the same person if the spectra are the same only they happen differently in time,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“He had decided long ago that no Situation had any objective reality: it only existed in the minds of those who happened… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“There is also the story about Tyrone Slothrop, who was sent into the Zone to be present as his own assembley--perhaps heavily… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“How strange tonight, this city. As if something trembled below its surface, waiting to burst through.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“It was one of those great iron afternoons in London: the yellow sun being teased apart by a thoasand chimneys breathing, fawning upward without… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“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,… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“People read what news they wanted to and each accordingly built his own rathouse of history's rags and straws.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“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… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“As spread thighs are to the libertine...so was the letter V to young Stencil.” — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“Oedipa wondered whether, at the end of this (if it were supposed to end), she too might not be left with only compiled memories… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“remember didn't you sneak away from camp to have a moment alone with What you felt stirring across the land . . . it… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“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… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
“She knew instinctively: he will be fine as the fraternity boy just out of an Ivy League school who knows he will never stop… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
