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Slow Learner: Early Stories
by Thomas Pynchon
March 4, 2023 - March 13, 2023 (read/fiction)

Slow Learner is a compilation of early stories written between 1959 and 1964, before Pynchon achieved recognition as a prominent writer for his 1963 novel, V and containing a revelatory essay on his early influences and writing.

Pynchon, T. (1984). Slow Learner: Early Stories. Little Brown and Company.


Little Brown and Company, 1984. 193 pages. Hardcover. 9780316724425

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p.158
gambrel »
(noun) a stick or iron for suspending slaughtered…
p.12
adventitious »
(adjective) coming from another source and not in…
p.188
start worrying about automation
"Then we're integrated," Tim said. "Hey." "Yeah. …
p.182
what would he do if they couldn't find this girl?
"There's an address someplace." He went away. Sil…
p.179
just cut off and left you this giant nothing
[...] It was as if Mr. McAfee too were broadcasti…
p.175
I thought they would help me
"Listen, what did you call us up for?" Hogan said…
p.166
holding up a carton of milk
It had been a year before, in the early fall, a l…

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Entropy

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The Secret Integration

this one is sweet. some white boys make up an imaginary black friend named Carl

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The Secret Integration

this one is sweet. some white boys make up an imaginary black friend named Carl

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