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Thomas Pynchon

Books in 2023

January 10, 2023 by sergneri Leave a Comment

Last half of “Bleeding Edge” by Thomas Pynchon 01/06/2023 – Done – enjoyable. Started “White Noise” by Don DeLillo 01/06/2023 – WIP – no affinity with characters so far. Checked out “American Midnight” by Adam Hochschild from the library, 01/02/2023 – not sure I’ll finish it, too depressing. About the years 1917-1920 and the American … [Read more…]

Posted in: Arts, Content, Thinking about Tagged: American Midnight, Bleeding Edge, Don DeLillo, Herbert Gold, Slow Learner, Thomas Pynchon, White Noise

Immortal Light Bulbs

November 21, 2020 by sergneri 3 Comments

On another forum I read, there was reference to a “FRANLAB” u-tube segment on a hand made Shelby carbon filament incandescent light bulb from the turn of the 20th Century. Fran is entertaining and informative, I like her videos! This video brought back memories from Gravity’s Rainbow, in which Thomas Pynchon wrote a sub-story about … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: Bryron the Bulb, FRANLAB, Shelby lightbulb, Thomas Pynchon

Could this be Major Duane Marvey from Gravity’s Rainbow?

November 14, 2019 by sergneri Leave a Comment

In the November 2019 Smithsonian Magazine is a fine essay The Untold Story of the Secret Mission to Seize Nazi Map Data, about HOUGHTEAM headed by U.S. Army Maj. Floyd W. Hough. It explores the exploits of Major Hough and his team and I immediately thought of the parallels between him, Maj. Duane Marvey and … [Read more…]

Posted in: Faits Divers, Politics, Science, Sea Stories, Thinking about Tagged: Europe, geodetic survey, Gravity's Rainbow, Major Duane Marvey, Major Floyd W. Hough, mapping, Military Intelligence, The Zone, Thomas Pynchon, U.S. Army, World War II

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