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Article: Thomas Pynchon's `Against the Day' weighs in: Jokey, dense, 1,085 pages.
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- The Philadelphia Inquirer (Philadelphia, PA)
- Article date:
- November 22, 2006
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Byline: Carlin Romano
"Against the Day" by Thomas Pynchon; Penguin Press ($35)
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Marriage requires commitment.
Building a pyramid requires commitment.
Thomas Pynchon requires commitment.
You can take that last item two ways (we're not constructing a syllogism here), as the ingenious, madcap author of "Gravity's Rainbow'' (1973), "V.'' (1963) and other mindfrazzling modern classics might gloss it.