Archive - The Exegesis of Thomas Pynchon

May 2025

Mason & Dixon - Part 1 - Chapter 13.2: A Paradox of Power

Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 1 - Chapter 13.2: It's All Theater, Musings on Responsibility, Climate Change, Astrology,

May 31 •

Mason & Dixon - Part 1 - Chapter 13.1: Skin Deep Scrutiny

Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 1 - Chapter 13.1: Conversations with Maskelyne, Mason's Naivité, Maskelyne's Hypersensitivity, Men on the Moon

May 24 •

Mason & Dixon - Part 1 - Chapter 12: The Many Faces of Time

Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 1 - Chapter 12: The Moon, Maskelyne's Birthday, the Clocks Discuss Time, Dixon Departs

May 17 •

Mason & Dixon - Part 1 - Chapter 11: The Progress of Empire

Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 1 - Chapter 11: Spat at the LeSpark's, Arrival at Saint Helena, Florinda, Ferrers at the Gallows, Technological Progress

May 10 •

Mason & Dixon - Part 1 - Chapter 10: Vectors of Desire

Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 1 - Chapter 10: The Orrery, Vectors of Desire,

May 3 •

April 2025

Mason & Dixon - Part 1 - Chapter 9: Baptismal Parallax

Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 1 - Chapter 9: Johanna's Desire, the Darkling Beetle, Rain, a Lesson on Parallax

Apr 26 •

Mason & Dixon - Part 1 - Chapter 8: Commodity Fetishism

Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 1 - Chapter 8: Ketjap, Dining with the Vrooms, Sitting on the Steps, Fast Food, the Fruit Trade

Apr 19 •

Mason & Dixon - Part 1 - Chapter 7.2: Shadow Leaders

Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 1 - Chapter 7.2: The Indifference-Draught, Ghosts, the Dagger, the British East India Company (EIC), Maskelyne's…

Apr 12 •

Mason & Dixon - Part 1 - Chapter 7.1: Daughters of Job

Analysis of Mason & Dixon, Part 1 - Chapter 7.1: Arrival in Cape Town, Bonk, the VOC and the Eighteenth Lord, the Vroom Home, the Seduction Plot

Apr 5 •

March 2025

Mason & Dixon - Part 1 - Chapter 6: The Microcosmos

Analysis of Gravity's Rainbow, Part 1 - Chapter 6: Tenebræ's Confusion, Lomax Arrives, the Brilliant, Captain Grant, the Military Band, the Equator, the…

Mar 29 •

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