falling away from what is human
Stephen Marks, Gregory The process repeats itself: across five decades and eight novels, Thomas Pynchon repeats variations on a theme. In V. a woman is dispersed across space and time, rendered a cyborg ghost of geopolitical spasms. In The Crying of Lot 49 another woman sees her exlover's face emerge from the floating trash of the city streets and hears the cries of untold millions echoing through the telephone wires overhead. The ostensible protagonist of Gravity's...