ENGL 1201W Lecture 3: The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
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The crying of lot 49 by thomas pynchon. Paranoia is having all the facts - william s. burroughs. Born in 1937 in long island to a family whose roots go back to the puritan settlement of new. Majored in engineering physics at cornell in the late 1950s, where he also attended lectures by postmodern writer vladimir nabokov, and worked at boeing in the early 1960s. Is considered one of the reclusive contemporary writers- does not teach and refuses most media appearances (exceptions: his appearances in 2004 on the simpsons) Famous for other works such as gravity"s rainbow (1973) and inherent vice (2009); cl49 his second novel, was published in 1965. Influential on both literary fiction (e. g. , don delillo, david foster wallace) and popular culture (e. g. , the cyberpunk subgenre of science fiction and directors and graphic novelists like p. t. Summary of plot, characters, and setting chapters 1-3.
