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Thomas Pynchon

Books in 2023

January 10, 2023 by sergneri 2 Comments

Last half of “Bleeding Edge” by Thomas Pynchon 01/06/2023 – Done – enjoyable. Checked out “Rising” by Elizabeth Rush from the library – good account the present impact of rising seas on a few areas in the world and a cautionary tale about the future. She’s an excellent writer, enjoyed it vary much. Started “White … [Read more…]

Posted in: Arts, Content, Thinking about Tagged: A Canticle for Leibowitz, Against the day, Albert and the Whale, American Midnight, Bleeding Edge, Coal wars : the future of energy and the fate of the planet, Don DeLillo, Elizabeth Rush, Herbert Gold, How Markets Fail, John Cassidy, Ka, Philip Hoare, Richard Martin, Roberto Colasso, Slow Learner, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, Thomas Pynchon, Walter M. Miller Jr, 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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