A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
If the world offered nothing, nowhere to support or make bearable whatever her private grief was, then it is that world, and… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only… — 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
You know what a miracle is. Not what Bakunin said. But another world’s intrusion into this one. Most of the time we… — 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
