3 Thomas Pynchon Quotes on Language

Thomas Pynchon quotes on language

4. My belief is that 'recluse' is a code word generated by journalists... meaning, 'doesn't like to talk to reporters.'

15. 'Run away with me,' said Roseman when the coffee came. 'Where?' she asked. That shut him up.

23. Colonies are the outhouses of the European soul, where a fellow can let his pants down and relax, enjoy the smell of his own shit. Where he can fall on his slender prey roaring as loud as he feels like, and guzzle her blood with open joy. Eh? Where he can just wallow and rut and let himself go in a softness, a receptive darkness of limbs, of hair as woolly as the hair on his own forbidden genitals.