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It is a humongous, bloated jigsaw puzzle of a story, pretentious without being provocative, elliptical without being illuminating, complicated without being. The pynchon connection which is was what nudged me in the direction. He entered our consciousness as a learned hipster almost immediately, in the early story entropy, a phlegmatic consideration of the heat death of the universe, and in the ironic epic v 1963, a tale of parallel searches for a mysterious woman whose. Against the day is thomas pynchons most recent and one of his most accessible and entertaining works. Henry veggian in his paper entitled thomas pynchon against the day makes the same point.
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