The Crying of Lot 49: Chapter 2
Mapping the Zone: A Thomas Pynchon discussion podcast
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The Sick Dick and the Volkswagen's
"I always end up going down these rabbit holes of learning weird things and I love it do we want to do quotes does anybody have a particular quote they really stuck out?" "The part about the sick dick and the Volkswagen's uh I mean Volkswagen is under yet another reference to Germany which seems to especially this book in gravity's rainbow so I have a lot of especially gravity's rainbow," says Pinchon. 'There's a difference between enjoying someone's music and thinking that they're going to get famous from the music' he adds. "[Pinchon] had no belief that they would ever sign a major label deal you know I'm saying where you know like there's a difference
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