The Crying of Lot 49: Chapter 1
Mapping the Zone: A Thomas Pynchon discussion podcast
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The Pension Wiki and the CIA
The second paragraph of the novel or it goes from fleshing out some more information from the letter to this montage of her going shopping and doing house duties. The book has a ton of weird little pop culture references in there full of meaning that doesn't actually add up to anything. I just find it really interesting that pension like just in a name can make you kind of go down a rabbit hole but if you try to explain them to someone else you're just gonna sound crazyYeah no that's absolutely he had that happen last time I was reading against the day and I was going through the wiki when something stopped me, then 30 minutes later I was like oh yeah I was
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