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Pagination
The UK paperback edition of
Against the Day has a markedly different pagination from the
original hardback editions — it is 1220 pages, up from the original
1085 pages. The American paperback retains the original pagination.
As all page references in this wiki are to the original edition,
the UK paperback presents a challenge.
Read more on the pagination and how to deal...
Pynchon Wiki Analyzed A couple of scholars at Oxford's Internet Institute and e-Research Centre have published an interesting paper on us and this project: Literary Sleuths Online: e-Research Collaboration on the Pynchon Wiki. Feel free to add comments and corrections.
Cricket anyone? Excellent article by Peter Vernon on cricket as metaphor in Against the Day — Read it...This is the Wiki for Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day. You can take a look at the cover, read the book description written by Pynchon himself, read the reviews, entertain some theories on the source of the title, or check out the Errata.
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[edit] How to Use this Wiki
There are two major ways to use this wiki. The first is the Against the Day Alphabetical Index, used to keep track of the myriad characters, real and imagined, as well as events, arcana, and lots of other stuff. The second is the Spoiler-Free Annotations by Page, which allows the reader to look up and contribute allusions and references while reading the book, in a convenient and spoiler-free manner. These two sections are so far almost entirely different, but we're working on integrating them.
Apart from those, it's up to you! In addition to your own research, feel free to add relevant information or interpetations gleaned from other Against the Day online discussions such as the Pynchon-L mailing list, The Chumps of Choice blog, Against the Day blog, and others-- with proper attribution, of course.
[edit] Alphabetical Index
Information on the characters, events, and everything else in Against the Day, organized alphabetically:[edit] Spoiler-free Annotations by Page
An alternate form of commentary on the text. The guiding principle of these annotations is to remain spoiler-free, so that readers can follow along without the fear that later parts of the book will be revealed.
| Part One: The Light Over the Ranges |
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| Part Two: Iceland Spar |
119-148, 149-170, 171-198, 199-218, 219-242, 243-272, 273-295, 296-317, 318-335, 336-357, 358-373, 374-396, 397-428 |
| Part Three: Bilocations |
429-459, 460-488, 489-524, 525-556, 557-587, 588-614, 615-643, 644-677, 678-694 |
| Part Four: Against the Day |
695-723, 724-747, 748-767, 768-791, 792-820, 821-848, 849-863, 864-891, 892-918, 919-945, 946-975, 976-999, 1000-1017, 1018-1039, 1040-1062 |
| Part Five: Rue du Départ |
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[edit] External Links
- The Modern Word: counting down to ATD
- The Fictional Woods - a Pynchon forum
- Pynchonoid Blog
- ATD Blog
- Another ATD Blog
- Wikipedia ATD page
- Emanating Against the Day
- 1911 Encyclopaedia Brittanica
- Extended ToC for Against the Day
- The Fuss About Pynchon - Great article by John Carvill in PopMatters about Pynchon's work.
- BBC: Tunguska at 100
[edit] Featured Article
It’s Just Not Cricket: Cricket as Metaphor in Thomas
Pynchon’s Against the Day
Peter Vernon presented this insightful paper at the Conference on Against the Day held in Tours, France, in June 2007, elucidating one of Against the Day's myriad vectors of meaning.
- "It is for two main reasons, I believe, that Pynchon uses the game of cricket as a metaphor in Against the Day. First, because cricket is the Imperial game, a game exported by the British to its colonies. And, second, because cricket is a game of balance, doubles and mirror images. The off-break is exactly balanced by the leg-break; the googly by the doosra. Cricket operates in terms of mirror-images and can be seen, therefore, to connect, on a metaphorical level, with the themes of Double Refraction, the Michelson-Morley Experiment, Iceland Spar, the Zombinis and the Isle of Mirrors in Venice." ( Read on...)
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