Pynchon Wiki: Against the Day
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This is the newly created Wiki for Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day, which will eventually expand to include the guides to Pynchon's other "big" novels, V., Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon, currently hosted at ThomasPynchon.com. In time, all the novels will be migrated here so that registered users of this wiki can create pages and make changes for those novels' guides.
You can take a look at the cover, read the book description written by Pynchon himself, read the reviews, or entertain some theories on the source of the title.
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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!
Alphabetical Index
Information on the characters, events, and everything else in Against the Day, organized alphabetically:
Spoiler-Free Annotations by Page
An alternate form of commentary on the text, to be linked up (or not) to the alphabetical index as future contributors suggest and agree upon. 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 |
pages coming soon |
Part Five: Rue de Départ |
pages coming soon |
Pynchon Wiki Help and Contributor Guidelines
Click here for help with editing and creating pages.
We have a few conventions we ask that you follow:
- When creating a new page, first check to make sure a page/article about what you want to write about hasn't already been created, by checking the list of all Wiki pages on Pynchon Wiki. If a page already exists, please modify that one.
- When creating a new page, if its information pertains to one (and only one) specific Pynchon novel, please categorize it with the appropriate identifier. For example, a page pertaining to Against the Day (currently the only novel being annotated here), should use the syntax
[[Category:ATD]]
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- To open a discussion on an individual listing of the Alpha Index, create one using the entry on Peter Tait as an example. Basically, give it a name that identifies the alpha listing (eg [[Name Discussion|DISCUSSION]]) and notice that the visible name will be "DISCUSSION" in full caps, so it stands out a bit.
External Links
- The Modern Word: counting down to ATD
- The Fictional Woods - a Pynchon forum
- Pynchonoid Blog
- ATD Blog
- Wikipedia ATD page
- Penguin Group AtD Page (Hmmm. There isn't one...)
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