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The Crying of Lot 49: Chapter 1

Mapping the Zone: A Thomas Pynchon discussion podcast

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Gravity's Rainbow

In a letter to his editor he just while saying I need an extension to finish Gravity's Rainbow he basically says that he has a novella that he's written that he's worked on for a long time and can't get it any shorter. The convoluted nature of the play is perhaps key to key to understanding the novel as a whole but just what what exactly the play really adds um is unclear to me still.

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