The Crying of Lot 49: Chapter 2
Mapping the Zone: A Thomas Pynchon discussion podcast
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The Myth of Narcissus and Echo
Greg, I. always find it interesting to kind of connect the the dots between all of his his work and I have to wonder how much of it is was intentional and howmuch of it is he just kind of went back and was like I like that idea I'm gonna reuse that or bring that back into the fold in this book. The pensions obsession with Southern California real estate would have predated Chinatown which is interestingjust a note fangoso in Italian means something along the lines of muddy your slimy so there's just some some good irony there as well. A luxury housing development around a clear blue artificial lake full of yeah treasure swimmer around the world that's just you
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