The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon 📯📬

A discursive discussion on Pynchon’s second novel.

0:00 Introduction
3:25 Pynchon’s Imagery
8:08 Pynchon’s Voice
14:34 Pynchon’s Obsessions & Science
18:31 Quest for Conspiracy & Paranoia
24:04 The Courier’s Tragedy
28:17 Pynchon’s “Message”
29:52 Baby Ygor’s Song
31:41 Recommended if you Like

Recommended if you like:
Vineland by Pynchon
Inherent Vice by Pynchon
Gravity’s Rainbow by Pynchon
Against the Day by Pynchon
Slow Learner for Early Stories by Pynchon
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
The Recognitions by William Gaddis
Naked Lunch by William Burroughs
The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace, my discussion: https://youtu.be/yGSXlQIqWlM?si=JfiMYkDpxKOZ0Oq6
Stories of Jorge Luis Borges, my discussion: https://youtu.be/7cWEo3Rv6qs?si=UpuzZtAxG_2yYEe4
Stories of Donald Barthelme
The Portable Sixties Reader
Why Are We in Vietnam? by Norman Mailer
The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster
The White Devil by John Webster
Titus Andronicus by Shakespeare
The Revenger’s Tragedy by Thomas Middleton
The Atheist’s Tragedy by Cyril Tourneur
‘Tis Pity She’s a Wh*re by John Ford
To Die in California by Newton Thornberg
Ulysses by James Joyce
A School for Fools by Sasha Sokolov
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, my discussion: https://youtu.be/vBbSVtNDVh4?si=nUsAEM7jGetacGM4

Dean Martin & Ricky Nelson sing “My Rifle, my Pony, and Me”: https://youtu.be/_MXcL1F3OMs?si=29xJShDRYPRrprk8

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