The Crying of Lot 49: Chapter 1
Mapping the Zone: A Thomas Pynchon discussion podcast
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The Millionaire Asshole
Pinchon sitsuating jay Gould kind of an he's kind of like the shittier version of JP Morgan or any of those other uh gilded age robber baron types. I think that's a very meaningful thing to look at here especially when for me that section of you know she thought of a hotel room in Mazablan and the dry disconsulate tune from the fourth move into the bar took concerta for orchestra. To me that reads as he is dry he is he looks up to the past but not any spiritual meaningful part of the past just an asshole who got rich He listens to music but it's not you know super moving he they watched a sunrise that they
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