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389 Thomas Pynchon (with Antoine Wilson)

The History of Literature

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The Sniper on the Roof

I feel like in this book, it's very much a middle age book because when you bump into each other in middle age, it's not necessarily like we've survived, right? We're still in middle age. The sniper on the roof is not taking that many of us out just yet,. You know, like into your 60, if you're 65 or you're older, what is it? American pastoral, maybe that starts a Philip Roth novel that starts at a reunion and there's only, you know, a few of them left kind of thing. Yeah. That's a different thing. And so I think he's just taking it in, but also kind of wondering along the

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