More from Thomas Pynchon
- Gravity’s Rainbow (1973), Pt. 1 (First lines)
- Against the Day (2006), p. 622
- Phone call to CNN, reported in “Where’s Thomas Pynchon?”, CNN (June 5, 1997)
History, the proverb says, is made at night. The European civil servant normally sleeps at night. What waits in his IN basket to confront him at nine in the morning is history.
Thomas Pynchon on history
V. (1963), Chapter 9, Part I (Mondaugen)
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