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Against the Day

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""It's always night or we wouldn't need light." - [http://en.wikipedia.org/Thelonius_Monk Thelonius Sphere Monk] (1917-1982)

Against the Day

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""It's always night or we wouldn't need light." - [http://en.wikipedia.org/Thelonius_Monk Thelonius Monk] (1917-1982)

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Against the Day description

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The following is the blurb, attributed to Thomas Pynchon, that appeared, disappeared and reappeared on Amazon.com, for Pynchon's latest novel, ''Against the Day'', to be released 11/21/06 by Penguin...

Spanning the period between the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World%27s_Columbian_Exposition Chicago World's Fair of 1893] and the years just after World War I, this novel moves from the [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre labor troubles in Colorado] to turn-of-the-century New York, to London and Gottingen, Venice and Vienna, the Balkans, Central Asia, Siberia at the time of the mysterious [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tunguska_event Tunguska Event], Mexico during the Revolution, postwar Paris, silent-era Hollywood, and one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all.
With a worldwide disaster looming just a few years ahead, it is a time of unrestrained corporate greed, false religiosity, moronic fecklessness, and evil intent in high places. No reference to the present day is intended or should be inferred.

The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikola_Tesla Nikola Tesla], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bela_Lugosi Bela Lugosi], and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx Groucho Marx].

As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.

Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they're doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.

Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck.

--Thomas Pynchon

Annotation of Thomas Pynchon's blurb

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Main Page

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<big>'''Welcome to the PynchonWiki'''</big>

This is newly created and eventually most of the guides currently available [http://www.hyperarts.com/pynchon here] will be migrated and wikified so that registered users of this wiki can create pages and make changes.

We'd like to thank Mr David Kipen for being the first contributor to this eventually historical website. You can read the beginnings of his [[annotation of the Against the Day blurb]], written by Thomas Pynchon, which appeared, disappeared and reappared at [http://www.amazon.com Amazon.com].

If you would like to be a contributor to this wiki, please register (by clicking on the "register" link on the top right.

We have a few conventions we ask that you follow:

When creating a new page, if its information pertains to one (and only one) specific Pynchon novel, please preface it with the following identifiers:

* ATD = ''Against the Day''
* GR = ''Gravity's Rainbow''
* MD = ''Mason & Dixon''
* V = ''V.''
* CL49 = ''Crying of Lot 49''

For example, we're starting a chapter-by-chapter annotation of ''Against the Day'', and the first chapter is [[ATD Chapter 1]].

If you'd like to start an alphabetical page for ''Gravity's Rainbow'', you'd use [[GR - A]].

Here's [http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing#Most_frequent_wiki_markup_explained a good page on editing wiki text].

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Annotation of Thomas Pynchon's blurb

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