More from Thomas Pynchon
- Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Pt. 1 (First lines)
- V. (1963), Chapter 9, Part I (Mondaugen)
- Phone call to CNN, reported in “Where’s Thomas Pynchon?”, CNN (June 5, 1997)
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All investigations of Time, however sophisticated or abstract, have at their true base the human fear of mortality.