Tom Pynchon's Ghost Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Tom Pynchon's Ghost

The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her. "Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on?" she asked me. "The big show is inside my head," I said. Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions

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The White Goddess: A Historical Grammar of Poetic Myth, Robert Graves (1948) This book is referenced in V., Chapter 3: In which Stencil, a quick-change artist, does eight impersonations Stencil would often wake from a dream that his pursuit of V. was "merely a scholarly… https://t.co/icvBzXlpNX https://t.co/5JHnhCKjYx

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V, the cultured anarchist and protagonist in V for Vendetta (Alan Moore's graphic novel), is seen reading a copy of Pynchon's V. in his underground liar. Alan Moore was no doubt influenced by Thomas Pynchon. https://t.co/BKWV2fyELI https://t.co/6dLAuxz2ql

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The Master, a 2012 film written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, takes some inspiration from Pynchon's V. amongst other sources. Freddie Quell (played by Joaquin Phoenix in The Master) and Benny Profane (V.) are both World War II Navy Veterans aimlessly drinking and… https://t.co/jnxTiS5eXw https://t.co/JbFxxxgwXs

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Llandanho is a seaside resort in Wales. Alice Liddell, Lewis Carroll's inspiration for Alice in Wonderland, spent her summers here. Carroll knew Alice through her father, the dean of Christ Church, Oxford; where alumnus Carroll lectured in mathematics. https://t.co/GwQYJ6QC8f

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