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Thomas Pynchon
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American novelist noted for dense and complex novels

Parody?
“[T]he Northern Ohio Insane Asylum...in which...were lodged some of the more trouble-some of the...cranks Cleveland these days had been filling up rapidly with...eager to bathe in the radiance of the ...Æther-drift experiment... out at Case.”

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Cleveland State Hospital | Cleveland Historical
The Cleveland State Hospital, also known as Northern Ohio Lunatic Asylum, The Newburgh Asylum, The Cleveland Asylum for the Insane, and even referred to as "Turney Tech" on some occasions, w...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
“One day Merle had read in the Hartford Courant about a couple of professors at the Case Institute in Cleveland who were planning an experiment to see what effect, if any, the motion of the Earth had on the speed of light through the luminiferous Æther.”

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MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT | Encyclopedia of Cleveland History | Case Western Reserve University
The MICHELSON-MORLEY EXPERIMENT was performed in the basement of a WESTERN RESERVE UNIV. dormitory in July 1887 by ALBERT A. MICHELSON of the Case School of Applied Science and EDWARD W. MORLEY of Wes...
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December 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
“Advent blows from the sea, which at sunset tonight shone green and smooth as iron-rich glass: blows daily upon us, all the sky above pregnant with saints and slender heralds' trumpets."
December 1, 2025 at 9:31 PM
December 1, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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If Thomas Pynchon finally gave an interview at age 88, who would be the ideal interviewer? Somehow it would make sense if it was Letterman. Two wiseass American icons, one a TV legend and the other a legendary TV addict
November 26, 2025 at 6:39 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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The other night, we watched the film Michael Clayton, and I learned the word "whickering" from its closed-captioned horses. The next day, I came across the word "whickered" in the latest Thomas Pynchon book.
November 25, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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wrong version uploaded... heres tommy p
November 26, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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Pynchon has been derided for less
November 26, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Today’s episode is an audio journal of my attempt to read Thomas Pynchon’s 1100-page metahistorical explosion of a novel, “Against the Day.” Join me on this intimate journey of struggle, joy and self-discovery.

#ThomasPynchon #AgainstTheDay #Pynchon #ShadowTicket
November 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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November 26, 2025 at 5:57 AM
November 24, 2025 at 12:38 PM
“If the U.S. was a person . . . and it sat down, Columbus, Ohio would instantly be plunged into darkness.”

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Bird causes thousands to lose power in northeast Columbus
COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — Thousands of AEP Ohio customers were left without power Sunday morning for two hours in northeast Columbus after a bird came into contact with a piece of equipment. Ac…
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November 24, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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November 21, 2025 at 1:36 AM
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I keep looking at this and thinking about that Pynchon character who thinks a national socialist chemistry can be built with ionic bonding and that covalent bonds are liberal and gay. RIP Laslo Jamf you would have tried to build a chemistry based on lead instead of carbon if you were real
November 21, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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Oh, so you're a qualified mental health professional? 🧐

"Misanthropy" isn't a mental illness!

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November 19, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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put her back in the pynchon novel she came from
November 19, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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though not a journalist, there’s only 3 photos that have ever been taken of this guy, and he definitely has at least one mental illness
November 19, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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¿Thomas Pynchon? ¡Venga! Uno de tortilla y una caña.
November 19, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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One of the first books to be banned and burnt in the New World was by an ancestor of the author Thomas Pynchon. More in our essay by Daniel Crown “The Price of Suffering”: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-price-of-suffering-william-pynchon-and-the-meritorious-price-of-our-redemption
November 19, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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“We’re back in pulp fiction wonderland, the fleeting apocalyptic allusions having been yoinked offstage by a vaudeville hook from the wings.” New online: Mark Iosifescu (@iosifescu.biz) on Thomas Pynchon’s SHADOW TICKET.
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Using the Night | Mark Iosifescu
Maybe you know the drill: metahistorical intrigue and antiauthoritarian politics; several deep benches’ worth of quirky characters toting loudly emblematic affectations and not-strictly-probable names...
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November 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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I think Thomas Pynchon would want hang with me if he just got to know me better.

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November 18, 2025 at 2:13 AM