Thomas Pynchon Quotes About Earth

• We are here among you as seekers of refuge from our present-your future-a time of worldwide famine, exhausted fuel supplies, terminal poverty-the end of the capitalistic experiment. Once we came to understand the simpl...truth that earth's resources were limited, in fact soon to run out, the whole capitalistic illusion fell to pieces. Those of us who spoke this truth were denounced as heretics, as enemies of the prevailing economic faith. Like religious Dissenters of an earlier day.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Running, Religious, Enemy

• Behind the hieroglyphic streets there would either be a transcendent meaning, or only the earth.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Earth, Hieroglyphics, Paranoia

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.85, Penguin

• A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Girl, Numbers, Towers

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.9, Penguin

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