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• All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.

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  Time, Sophisticated, Mortality

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.653, Penguin

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• Darkness invades the dreams of the glassblower. Of all the unpleasantries his dreams grab in out of the night air, an extinguished light is the worst. Light in his dreams, was always hope: the basic, moral hope. As the contacts break helically away, hope turns to darkness, and the glassblower wakes sharply tonight crying, "Who? Who?"

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  Dream, Night, Light

  "Gravity's Rainbow". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1973.

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• Decidió que sufrimos una gran añoranza temporal por la década en la que nacimos.

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  Suffering, Born, Homesickness

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.96, Penguin

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• What, I should only trust good people? Man, good people get bought and sold every day. Might as well trust somebody evil once in a while, it makes no more or less sense.

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  Hombres, Personas, Maldad

  Thomas Pynchon (2015). “Inherent Vice”, p.349, Random House

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• What are the stars but points in the body of God where we insert the healing needles of our terror and longing?

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  Stars, Healing, Rainbow

  "Gravity's Rainbow". Book by Thomas Pynchon, 1973.

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• Explosion without an objective', declared Miles Blundell, 'is politics in its purest form'.

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  Form, Explosions, Miles

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Against the Day”, p.132, Penguin

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• So generation after generation of men in love with pain and passivity serve out their time in the Zone, silent, redolent of faded sperm, terrified of dying, desperately addicted to the comforts others sell them, however useless, ugly or shallow, willing to have life defined for them by men whose only talent is for death.

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  Dolor, Hombres, Morir

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.580, Penguin

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

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  Earth, Hieroglyphics, Paranoia

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

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• Shall I project a world?

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  World, Projects

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.41, Penguin

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• Information. What's wrong with dope and women? Is it any wonder the world's gone insane, with information come to be the only real medium of exchange?

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  Real, Dope, Insane

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.203, Penguin

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• Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.

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  Cute, Character, Pages

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Slow Learner”, p.10, Penguin

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• She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws of ballistics, feral ravening, promised more delight. She tested it, shivering: I am meant to remember. Each clue that comes is supposed to have its own clarity, its fine chances for permanence. But then she wondered if the gemlike "clues" were only some kind of compensation. To make up for her having lost the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night.

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  Dream, Night, Law

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.55, Penguin

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• Ha sido una noción predominante. Chispas caídas. Fragmentos de vasijas rotas en la Creación. Y algún día, de algún modo, antes del final, una reunión de vuelta a casa. Un mensajero del Reino, llegando en el último momento. Pero te digo que no existe tal mensaje, ni tal hogar: sólo los millones de últimos momentos... nada más. Nuestra historia es un conjunto de últimos momentos.

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  Atheist, Home, Broken

  FaceBook post by Thomas Pynchon from Nov 06, 2014

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• What North Europe thinks of as its history is actually quite provincial and of limited interest. Different sorts of Christian killing each other, and that's about it.

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  Christian, Thinking, Europe

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• For every kind of vampire, there is a kind of cross

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  Vampire, Kind, Crosses

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.420, Penguin

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• Some of us are afraid of dying; others of human loneliness. Profane was afraid of land or seascapes like this, where nothing else lived but himself.

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  Loneliness, Land, Dying

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “V.”, p.11, Penguin

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• En las últimas semanas, al más puro estilo mesiánico, le ha quedado claro que su verdadera identidad es, literalmente, la fuerza de la gravedad. Soy la Gravedad, soy Aquello contra lo que el Cohete debe luchar, a lo que los desechos prehistóricos se someten y se transmutan en la sustancia misma de la Historia.

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  Real, Struggle, Style

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• Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.

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  Déjame

  Phone call to CNN, June 5, 1997.

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• Si hay algo reconfortante -religioso, si se quiere- en la paranoia, también existe la antiparanoia, en la que nada está relacionado con nada, una condición que no muchos de nosotros podemos soportar durante mucho tiempo.

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  Religious, Long, Comforting

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.338, Penguin

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• I was dreaming ... about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.

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  Dream, Men, Boys

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.43, Penguin

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• But on the way home tonight, you wish you'd picked him up, held him a bit. Just held him, very close to your heart, his cheek by the hollow of your shoulder, full of sleep. As it it were you who could, somehow, save him. For the moment not caring who you're supposed to be registered as. For the moment, anyway, no longer who the Caesars say you are.

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  Home, Heart, Sleep

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.108, Penguin

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• Despair came over her, as it will when nobody around has any sexual relevance to you.

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  Despair, Relevance

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.54, Penguin

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• Es una curva que cada uno de ellos siente, inequívocamente. Es la parábola. Deben haber adivinado, una o dos veces - adivinado y negado a creer - que todo, siempre, colectivamente, se había estado moviendo hacia esa forma purificada latente en el cielo, esa forma sin sorpresa, sin segunda oportunidad, sin retorno. Sin embargo, se mueven para siempre bajo ella, reservada para sus propias malas noticias en blanco y negro, ciertamente, como si fuera el arco iris, y ellos sus hijos...

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  Children, Believe, Moving

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “Gravity's Rainbow”, p.165, Penguin

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• Laboring through a world every day more stultified, which expected salvation in codes and governments, ever more willing to settle for suburban narratives and diminished payoffs--what were the chances of finding anyone else seeking to transcend that, and not even particularly aware of it?

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  Government, World, Narrative

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• I mean what they and their hired psychiatrists call delusional systems. Needless to say, ‘delusions’ are always officially defined. We do not have to worry about questions of real or unreal. They only talk out of expediency. It’s the system that matters. How the data arrange themselves inside it. Some are consistent, others fall apart.

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  Real, Fall, Mean

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