REMINDER: Thomas Pynchon’s books are encoded confessions about his...
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Mar 22, 2025
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REMINDER: Thomas Pynchon’s books are encoded confessions about his life & he was quite possibly a CIA agent who went rogue, or else Naval intel, & he wrote Gravity’s Rainbow in exile (MX) because the CIA had just killed his best friend Richard Fariña who was a leader of the SDS.
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Inherent Vice is the closest to a direct autobiography, followed by Vineland. There are some who are suspicious of what happened to him after GR came out— he didn’t show up with another book for a decade.
