The favorite authors meme

#7AuthorsToKnowMe

#JimDodge
#ThomasPynchon
#KatherineDunn
#CormacMccarthy
#WilliamFaulkner
#HarukiMurakami
#NeilGaiman

So much of #ThomasPynchon power comes from a kind frustration with the western literary canon as it assumes it is worthy of being championed. That the competition for wealth and fame is right he almost exclusively writes about the extras of historic moments. The inconsequential victims of history who like a river carry the warships forward that inevitably grind them towards oblivion. By western tradition I mean any one who acknowledges by vying for ether academic or financial gain in that system

#ThomasPynchon seemingly learned to shape information from T.S. Eliot and Oakley hall. Specifically the wasteland and warlock. But on a line by line level it reads more like Groucho marx mixed with Rainer Maria Rilke.

The lowbrow humor mixed verbose eloquence as a commentary of the relationship of the individual to there class that is being measured against and ground down by history is his fundamental creation.

How much of what we are saying is the moment expressing itself through us?

#ThomasPynchon is the American prose poem writer of absurdist epics.

I have been rereading vineland the last couple of days in preparation of finally reading bleeding edge (the last of his books I have not read). First and foremost in my mind is this idea that pynchon excerpts reality like a zen master, yet, has specific opinions on the most nuanced aspects of encyclopedic knowledge.

He seems to see shadow truths literature, a idea the thing cannot escape its opposite. To name is to isolate.

https://lateboomersden.blog/2023/04/05/the-machine-all-of-us-created-together/
Just some sci fi geek rambling about what "the machine" is and what role AI and humans have to play in it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WF34N4gJAKE
#Technology, #AI, #Artificial Intelligence, #Bonobo, #Computers, #Consciousness, #Cyriak, #GravitysRainbow, #JohnnyRebeck, #JohnnyVerbeck, #Machine, #MIA, #RyeRye, #SausageMachine, #ThomasPynchon, #Pynchon

Topics I’ll bore you with: #figureskating #NathanChen #theory #classicTV #semiotics #culturaltheory #UmbertoEco #FlannObrien #SusanSontag #ThomasPynchon #Broadway #BroadwayMusicals #Sondheim #newHollywood #Tarkovsky #TheWaltons #LawrenceWelk #GreatAmericanSongbook #TraditionalPop #60s #BradyBunch #YatchRock #ChristmasMusic #grammar #linguistics #classiccountry #outlawCountry #literaryfiction #80s #literarytheory #postmodernism #Lacan #Foucault #Tonys #Freud #gaysports #philosophy

Fifty (50) years of _Gravity's Rainbow_ !!!

Thank you, #ThomasPynchon

Exquisite cover art for one of Thomas Pynchon’s finest works.
#ThomasPynchon

"News Release - The Huntington Acquires Thomas Pynchon Archive"
#ThomasPynchon
https://huntington.org/news/news-release-huntington-acquires-thomas-pynchon-archive

Siento simpatía por los escritores y escritoras que han desarrollado su exitosa carrera al margen de las redes sociales y la atención mediática; sin necesidad de alimentar el algoritmo o practicar la exposición. No puedo evitarlo (y, dicho sea de paso) ni dejar de sentir un poco de envidia.

#Murakami #SallyRooney #Salinger #AlanMoore #PaulAuster #ThomasPynchon #escritores

Though I have a number of favourite writers, these three have been most significant. Each time I read one of their novels, I grow in understanding myself and the world I live in

That's something to celebrate.

#ThomasPynchon
#DonDelillo
#MJohnHarrison

You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures
#ThomasPynchon

The post-beats counterculture is a fascinating aspect of the rock n' roll generation.

#ThomasPynchon, #HunterSThompson, and #JimDodge are for me the prose masters who directly inherited the tradition by reading it. With #TomRobbins is an eccentric planet X, type phenomenon that is sometimes in orbit but has his own gravitational trajectory with the other writers, and sometimes not.

These writers are at once more jaded and hopeful. Rebellious and insightful. A stew of contradiction.

Had missed the news from earlier this week that #ThomasPynchon and his family have arranged to have his papers and research materials stored at the #HuntingtonLibrary -- great to see happen, and with #OctaviaButler's papers there already among others, what an evolving resource it is. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2022-12-14/the-huntington-library-acquires-papers-of-thomas-pynchon

Something I have picked up with #ThomasPynchon is that by not being able to tell when he is sincere or parodying the western tradition of literature. it creates a kind of oblivious friction where you choose how to respond to the complexities he is presenting.

there is a limit to how much info the human mind can process. and sincerity is the only safeguard against meaninglessness by the very act of being the only thing that gets you emotionally invested to continue. A type of self-actualization.

A crying shame.
#ThomasPynchon

There's going to be a #ThomasPynchon archive at the Huntington Library. Don't get too excited - manuscript drafts only. We won't be seeing any private letters, personal material or recent pics of Pynchon.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/14/arts/thomas-pynchon-huntington-archive.html

Inspired by #ThomasPynchon’s novel The Crying of Lot 49, I did some reading about Maxell’s Demon. I was intrigued by an argument by #IBM’s Charles Bennett and others from the perspective of information theory. I encountered the name again last night in a textbook about #QuantumComputation. It’s pretty cool that Bennett was a pioneer i quantum cryptography and proposed the first quantum key distribution protocol (BB84).

#7books A Christmas Carol #charlesdickens
Gravity's Rainbow #thomaspynchon
Upside Down #eduardogaleano
Middle March #georgeeliot
In A Language Older Than Words #derrickjensen
Cloud Atlas #davidmitchell
Cymbeline #Shakespeare

Towards the end of #ThomasPynchon’s novel Mason & Dixon (chapter 74), Charles Mason said that he tortured his old enemy Nevil Maskelyne by teasing him to study the Brachystochrone problem, originally posed by Bernoulli in 1696. I wonder if there is a skatepark based on the Brachistochrone curve? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brachistochrone_curve