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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon je americký spisovatel proslulý komplexními, hutnými romány. Jedná se o představitele postmoderny a držitele prestižního ocenění americké nadace MacArthur. Ve své tvorbě, jak v literární, tak i v nebeletristické, experimentuje s různými literárními styly a škála témat, kterou se zabývá, je velice široká – od světových dějin po matematiku. Jeho nejznámější román Duha gravitace získal v roce 1974 americkou Národní knižní cenu za beletrii a sám Pynchon je ve Spojených státech často zmiňován jako možný kandidát Nobelovy ceny za literaturu.

Pynchon pochází z ostrova Long Island ve státě New York. Dva roky sloužil u amerického námořnictva a na Cornellově univerzitě vystudoval anglickou literaturu; během posledních let studia, na přelomu padesátých a šedesátých let, mu začaly vycházet i první povídky. Proslavil se však až díky románům, které následovaly nedlouho poté: V. , Dražba série 49 , Duha gravitace a Mason & Dixon .

Je znám tím, že si hlídá své soukromí. Dosud bylo publikováno jen několik fotografií, na kterých by byl zachycen, a o tom, kde žije a kým vlastně doopravdy je, koluje už od šedesátých let řada dohadů.

Jeho nejnovější román Bleeding Edge vyšel 17. září 2013. Wikipedia  

✵ 8. květen 1937
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Thomas Pynchon citáty a výroky

„Kekulému se zdá o Velkém hadovi, který drží v tlamě svůj vlastní ocas, snící Had, který obklopuje Svět. Ale ta lakota, ten cynismus, se kterou tento sen bude využit. Had, který oznamuje „Svět je uzavřená věc, cyklická, rezonující, věčně se vracející,“ bude doručen do Systému, jehož jediným cílem je narušit Cyklus. Systém, který bere a nevrací, který požaduje, aby se „produktivita“ a „zisky“ v čase neustále zvyšovaly, odčerpává ze zbytku světa obrovské množství energie, aby udržel svůj maličký zoufalý podíl na zisku: a ne jen většina lidstva – ale i většina Světa, zvířat, rostlin a minerálů je v tomto procesu odhozena jako odpad. Systém může a nemusí rozumět tomu, že si pouze kupuje čas. A že čas je především příliš umělý zdroj, který nemá cenu pro nikoho jiného kromě Systému, jenž dříve nebo později musí ztroskotat a zahynout, až jeho závislost na energii překročí množství, které mu svět může poskytnout, a stáhne s sebou nevinné duše na celém řetězci života.“

Thomas Pynchon

„Veřejnost je dlouho rozdělena na dva tábory: jedni si myslí, že věda dokáže všechno, druzí se bojí, že ti první mají pravdu.“

Thomas Pynchon

Mason a Dixon

Thomas Pynchon: Citáty anglicky

“A number of frail girls… prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha The Crying of Lot 49

Zdroj: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Chapter 1

“"Personal density," Kurt Mondaugen in his Peenemünde office not too many steps away from here, enunciating the Law which will one day bear his name, "is directly proportional to temporal bandwidth."
"Temporal bandwidth," is the width of your present, your now. It is the familiar "∆ t" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and in the future, the thicker your bandwidth, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“Politics is a kind of engineering isn't it. With people as your raw material.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha V.

Zdroj: V. (1963), Chapter Nine, Part II, Mondaugen

“The man's thirst for guilt was insatiable as the desert's for water.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“It creeped him out, the way it just sat there looking so plastic and harmless among the old-time good intentions of all that downtown architecture, no more sinister than a chain motel by the freeway, and yet behind its neutral drapes and far away down its fluorescent corridors it was swarming with all this strange alternate cop history and cop politics—cop dynasties, cop heroes and evildoers, saintly cops and psycho cops, cops too stupid to live and cops too smart for their own good—insulated by secret loyalties and codes of silence from the world they'd all be given to control, or, as they liked to put it, protect and serve.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha Inherent Vice

Zdroj: Inherent Vice (2009), p. 137

“Write by WASTE. The government will open it if you use the other. The dolphins will be mad. Love the dolphins.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha The Crying of Lot 49

The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)

“M-maybe there is a Machine to take us away, take us completely, suck us through the electrodes out of the skull 'n' into the Machine and live there forever with all the other souls it's got stored there. It could decide who it would suck out, a-and when. Dope never gave you immortality. You hadda come back, every time, into a dying hunk of smelly meat! But We can live forever, in a clean, honest, purified, Electroworld”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“It was impossible to get a decent meal, or even snack, anywhere, burned flapjacks and vulcanized steaks being as appetizing as things got. It also quickly became evident — horribly evident — that no one in the city knew how to make coffee, as if there were some sort of stultified consensus, or even city ordinance, about never waking up.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha Against the Day

Zdroj: Against the Day (2006), p. 66

“Everybody here drove around like a dedicated loser, expecting moment to moment to get into an accident. Doc could relate to this — it was like the beach, where you lived in a climate of unquestioning hippie belief, pretending to trust everybody while always expecting to be sold out”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha Inherent Vice

but he didn't have to enjoy that either, especially.
Zdroj: Inherent Vice (2009), p. 225

“Out and down in the colonies, life can be indulged, life and sensuality in all its forms, with no harm done to the Metropolis, nothing to soil those cathedrals, white marble statues, noble thoughts.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“"You one of those right wing nut outfits?" inquired the diplomatic Metzger.
Fallopian twinkled. "They accuse us of being paranoids."
"They?" inquired Metzger, twinkling also.
"Us?" asked Oedipa.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha The Crying of Lot 49

Zdroj: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Chapter 3

“No need to feel pleas'd with yourself. What you found was not their sacred Well, but only a Representation of it.”

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Thomas Pynchon Mason & Dixon

Zdroj: Mason & Dixon (1997), Chapter 74

“Charlie really has this, like, obsessive death wish! Yes! he, he wants to be caught, processed, put in a can, not just any can, you dig, it has to be StarKist! suicidal brand loyalty, man, deep parable of consumer capitalism, they won't be happy with anything less than drift-netting us all, chopping us up and stacking us on the shelves of Supermarket Amerika, and subconsciously the horrible thing is, is we want them to do it…”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha Inherent Vice

Zdroj: Inherent Vice (2009), p. 119 <!-- (The Penguin Press, 2009, US hardcover edition) -->

“I apologize if I've interrupted some exceptionally demanding hippie task, like trying to remember where the glue is on the Zig-Zag paper, but it seems we have yet another problem, not unconnected with this fatality of yours for introducing disaster into every life you touch, however glancingly.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha Inherent Vice

Zdroj: Inherent Vice (2009), p. 203

“Whenever I put the headsets on now," he'd continued, "I really do understand what I find there. When those kids sing about 'She loves you,' yeah, well, you know, she does, she's any number of people, all over the world, back through time, different colors, shapes, sizes, distances from death, but she loves. And the 'you' is everybody. And herself.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha The Crying of Lot 49

The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)

“Rachel was looking into the mirror at an angle of 45°, and so had a view of the face turned toward the room and the face on the other side, reflected in the mirror; here were time and reverse-time, co-existing, cancelling one another exactly out. Were there many such reference points, scattered throughout the world, perhaps only at nodes like this room which housed a transient population of the imperfect, the dissatisfied; did real time plus virtual or mirror-time equal zero and thus serve some half-understood moral purpose? Or was it only the mirror world that counted; only a promise of a kind that the inward bow of a nose-bridge or a promontory of extra cartilage at the chin meant a reversal of ill fortune such that the world of the altered would thenceforth run on mirror-time; work and love by mirror-light and be only, till death stopped the heart's ticking (metronome's music) quietly as light ceases to vibrate, an imp's dance under the century's own chandeliers….”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha V.

Zdroj: V. (1963), Chapter Two, Part I

“It's a giant factory-state here, a City of the Future full of extrapolated 1930's swoop-facaded and balconied skyscrapers, lean chrome caryatids with bobbed hairdos, classy airships of all descriptions drifting in the boom and hush of the city abysses, golden lovelies sunning in roof gardens and turning to wave as you pass.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“Dream tonight of peacock tails, / Diamond fields and spouter whales. / Ills are many, blessings few, / But dreams tonight will shelter you.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha V.

Zdroj: V. (1963), Chapter Nine, Part II

“It's been a prevalent notion. Fallen sparks. Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation. And someday, somehow, before the end, a gathering back to home. A messenger from the Kingdom, arriving at the last moment. But I tell you there is no such message, no such home — only the millions of last moments… nothing more. Our history is an aggregate of last moments.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“Each will have his personal Rocket.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha The Crying of Lot 49

The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)

“"Run away with me," said Roseman when the coffee came.
"Where?" she asked. That shut him up.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha The Crying of Lot 49

Zdroj: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Chapter 1

“Let me be unambiguous. I prefer not to be photographed.”

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Thomas Pynchon

Phone call to CNN as reported in a CNN article (5 June 1997) http://cgi.cnn.com/US/9706/05/pynchon/

“Non-Masons stay pretty much in the dark about What Goes On, though now and then something jumps out, exposes itself, jumps giggling back again, leaving you with few details but a lot of Awful Suspicions.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“At Bishop they learn'd that Dixon had been buried in back of the Quaker Meeting-House in Staindrop. Doctor Isaac stay'd with his Father, step for step. At the grave, which by Quaker custom was unmark'd, Mason beseech'd what dismally little he knew of God, to help Dixon through. The grass was long and beaded with earlier rain. A Cat emerg'd from it and star'd for a long time, appearing to know them.
"Dad?" Doc had taken his arm. For an instant, unexpectedly, Mason saw the little Boy who, having worried about Storms at Sea, as Beasts in the Forest, came running each time to make sure his father had return'd safely, — whose gift of ministering to others Mason was never able to see, let alone accept, in his blind grieving, his queasiness of Soul before a life and a death, his refusal to touch the Baby, tho' 'twas not possible to blame him…. The Boy he had gone to the other side of the Globe to avoid was looking at him now with nothing in his face but concern for his Father.
"Oh, Son."”

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Thomas Pynchon Mason & Dixon

He shook his Head. He didn't continue.
"It's your Mate," Doctor Isaac assur'd him, "It's what happens when your Mate dies."
Mason & Dixon (1997)

“My belief is that "recluse" is a code word generated by journalists… meaning, "doesn't like to talk to reporters."”

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Thomas Pynchon

Phone call to CNN (5 June 1997)

“The night room heaves a sigh, yes Heaves, a Sigh — old-fashioned comical room, oh me I'm hopeless, born a joker never change, flirting away through the mirrorframe in something green-striped, pantalooned, and ruffled — meantime though, it is quaint, most rooms today hum you know, have been known also to "breathe," yes even wait in hushed expectancy and that ought to be the rather sinister tradition here, long slender creatures, heavy perfume and capes in rooms assailed by midnight, pierced with spiral stairways, blue-petaled pergolas, an ambience in which no one, however provoked or out of touch, my dear young lady, ever, Heaves, a Sigh. It is not done.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“I was dreaming … about my grandfather. A very old man, at least as old as I am now, 91. I thought, when I was a boy, that he had been 91 all his life. Now I feel as if I have been 91 all my life.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha The Crying of Lot 49

Zdroj: The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Chapter 4

“He lies on top of her, sweating, taking great breaths, watching her face turned 3/4 away, not even a profile, but the terrible Face That is No Face, gone too abstract, unreachable: the notch of the eye socket, but never the labile eye, only the anonymous curve of cheek, convexity of mouth, a noseless mask of the Other Order of Being, of Katje's being — the lifeless non-face that is the only face of hers he really knows, or will ever remember.”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

“It's a Rocket-raising: a festival new to this country. Soon it will come to the folk-attention how close Wernher von Braun's birthday is to the Spring Equinox, and the same German impulse that once rolled flower-boats through the towns and staged mock battles between young Spring and deathwhite old Winter will be erecting strange floral towers out in the clearings and meadows, and the young scientist-surrogate will be going round and round with Gravity or some such buffoon, and the children will be tickled, and laugh….”

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Thomas Pynchon kniha Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)