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2 unusual facts about Pynchon


Pynchon

Victoria Pynchon (born 1952), American lawyer, attorney mediator, author and writer

Thirty Eight

The keywords upon publishing forums allude to the influence of Kafka and Pynchon.


Amherst Central High School

Nancy Marchand, actress most famous for her portrayal of Margaret Pynchon in Lou Grant and, in later life, Livia Soprano on The Sopranos

Charles Mason

The song "Sailing to Philadelphia" from Mark Knopfler's album of the same name, also has strong references to Mason and Dixon, and was inspired by Pynchon's book.

Jeremiah Dixon

The song Sailing to Philadelphia from Mark Knopfler's album of the same name, also refers to Mason and Dixon, and was inspired by Pynchon's book.

Johnny Staccato

Pynchon's main character, private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello, praises Staccato as "the shamus of shamuses," ranking him with past greats Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade.

Little Albert experiment

In Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, the Infant Tyrone's penile erections are conditioned in a manner modeled on Watson and Rayner's conditioning of Little Albert, to both satirize behaviorism and wind the book's plot around Pynchon's themes of control and the institutional corruption of innocence.

Mason Dixon

Mason & Dixon, the 1997 novel by Thomas Pynchon featuring the surveyors as characters

McClintic

McClintic Sphere, fictional character in Thomas Pynchon novel V.

Mirosław Nahacz

He admitted that in his writing he was influenced by the literature of Céline, Hrabal, Burroughs and Pynchon.

Samuel Chapin

Chapin, Pynchon's son John and another Pynchon son-in-law, Elizur Holyoke, were appointed town Commissioners (essentially a board of magistrates).

Sewer alligator

An additional reference to the sewer alligator exists in Thomas Pynchon's first novel, V..

Victoria Pynchon

Pynchon, the daughter of the late superior court Judge Donald Pike, grew up in La Mesa in San Diego County and graduated in 1970 from Helix High School.

WASTE

The English rock band Radiohead named their website's merchandise and fan WASTE network W.A.S.T.E. after Thomas Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49.


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