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Pynchon

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Pynchon
Thomas. born 1937, US novelist, author of V (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1967), Gravity's Rainbow (1973), and Mason and Dixon (1997)


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Laura Miller cites Whiteheed's influences as being Don DeLillo and "Ralph Ellison and Thomas Pynchon by way of Walter Mosley.
It counts out the "seven habits," "four competencies," and "sixty-four principles of success"--all as comically arcane as Rosicrucianism--and communicates in argots and acronyms worthy of Pynchon or Borges.
in Kafka and Borges, Cervantes and Diderot, Faulkner and Joyce; humorists like Perleman, Benchley, Ring Lardner, and Will Cuppy; contemporary goofers of fictional forms like John Barth and Thomas Pynchon.
 
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