What are Thomas Pynchon's religious /spiritual leanings, and how are they reflected in his novel?Gravity's Rainbow?Thomas Pynchon:Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is a novelist and short story writer who was born on May 8, 1937. His best-known works incl...
The cans are one-use-only. There is no using part of a can now and the rest of it later. Cleanup is impossible, except for what you can do with a wire brush. Wear rubber gloves and old clothes. I knew that some areas only needed partial filling. The barrel of the M1 would occu...
“A screaming comes across the sky.”—Thomas Pynchon,Gravity’s Rainbow(1973) “It was a pleasure to burn.”—Ray Bradbury,Fahrenheit 451(1953) “As Gregor Samsa awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect.”—Franz Kafka,The Metamorph...
"You're using anarchy and murder to stop anarchy and murder," protests the grizzled old town "Judge." (Himself not an actual judge because, well, nothing in Warlock seems to work the way you'd expect. Seriously, they should have come up with another name.) The owner of Warlock's dry...
I LOVE long books, but, at 74 and with some arthritis, a doorstop book is quite uncomfortable. Since my eye doctor has recommended against ebooks, that leaves audio books as a possible solution to the problem. In reading the comments, I was delighted to see many old favorites (I would ...
How can Ernest Hemingway's short novel The Old Man and the Sea be considered a fable? How does George Bernard Shaw differ from Hemingway? What is Hemingway's vision of man in The Old Man and the Sea? How does Hemingway's novel The Old Man and the Sea celebrate endeavour rather than ...
5. Subjunctive America: Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera One of the Nobel Prize winning author Gabriel Garcia Marquez's triumphs, Love in the Time of Cholera is a masterwork of magical realism. This text contains... H Bloom,R Pelay...
One thing that is difficult to understand is the fable regarding Tim Leary’s getting fired from Harvard in 1963 and the exposure by Dr. Andrew Weil. It appears from the evidence that Weil’s “exposure” was just an old trick using the Hegelian dialectic: problem, reaction, solution; – ...
Thoroughly clean the parts with brake cleaner after the bead blasting. Some skin oil probably got transferred to the parts, and brake cleaner is cheap and easy to use. That is an old 100% cotton towel. I would be very careful to only use 100% cotton towels. Spraying the organic solvents...
“Know that old Irving Kristol maxim that a neoconservative is a liberal who has been mugged by reality?” writer David Kamp asks. “Well,Free Rideis the book for the Net utopian who has been mugged by insolvency.” I hope this is the case, since there certainly seem to be a lot of...