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* Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day, in a parody of serial fiction, features a young men's organization, the " Chums of Chance ", whose Charter includes a paraphrase of Star Trek's Prime Directive, " never to interfere with legal customs of any locality at which we may have happened to touch.
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In 1994, scholar Brian Stonehill suggested that Thomas Pynchon's 1973 novel Gravity's Rainbow " not only curses but precurses what we now glibly dub cyberspace.
* Thomas Pynchon's award winning novel Gravity's Rainbow, contains a very detailed scene of coprophagia.
Francisco Madero, Porfirio Díaz, and other major figures and events of the Mexican Revolution are seen and experienced by the character of Frank Traverse in Thomas Pynchon's novel Against the Day.
In Thomas Pynchon's 1964 short story " The Secret Integration ," a boy's dreams are affected " when the thing in the sky, the Heaviside layer, was right for it.
" Lethem suggests that the point in 1973 when Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow was nominated for the Nebula Award, and was passed over in favor of Arthur C. Clarke's Rendezvous with Rama, stands as " a hidden tombstone marking the death of the hope that SF was about to merge with the mainstream.
* In Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 chapter six Emory Bortz says, " I've been pirated, me and Wharfinger, we've been Bowdlerized in reverse or something.
There are also references to Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49 and his Gravity's Rainbow, an equally enormous experimental novel concerning liberty and paranoia that was published two years prior to Illuminatus !.
Pavlovian conditioning was a major theme in Aldous Huxley's dystopian novel, Brave New World, and also to a large degree in Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow.
* Thomas Pynchon's early short-story, " Mortality and Mercy in Vienna ", take its title from a verse in this play, and has also been inspired by it.
* Thomas Pynchon's three novels Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon and Against the Day are historical, and they variously contrast outrageous personal, subjective, hallucinogenic or even supernatural events with very real, well-researched accuracies from the past.
In part inspired by Thomas Pynchon's novel, the song is a duet with James Taylor, where the two protagonists speak of their hopes and fears as they arrive on the ship in the new world for the first time.
Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow ( 1973 ) and the Robert Anton Wilson / Robert Shea collaborative work Illuminatus!
The first line may also be one left ball, one brass ball, one big ball ; approximately this version appears in Thomas Pynchon's V. ( page 325 ).
Doc Sportello, the protagonist in Thomas Pynchon's Inherent Vice, discusses his film appearances throughout the book.
A minor character named Wolfe Tone O ' Rooney appears in Thomas Pynchon's 2006 novel Against the Day.
In Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon, set in the 18th century, the Mason-Dixon line becomes increasingly confused with the idea of a ley line and with feng shui.
Triangulating Thomas Pynchon's Eighteenth-Century World: Theory, Structure, and Paranoia in ' Mason & Dixon.
* Slothrop and Geli Tripping experience the famous Brocken Spectre in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow, as the Mittelbau-Dora labour camp in the Harz mountains north of Nordhausen from 1943 was the home of the V-2 rocket production.
Thomas and 2006
In 2006, the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society published a paper providing evidence that these were painted in situ at St Thomas ' Hospital over the river Thames.
Mike Mullen | Mullen ( CNO in December 2006 ) with some of his predecessors: Vern Clark | Clark, James D. Watkins | Watkins, Thomas B. Hayward | Hayward and Jay L. Johnson | Johnson
* Frank S. Partnoy & Randall S. Thomas, ' Gap Filling, Hedge Funds, and Financial Innovation ' ( 2006 ) Vanderbilt Law & Econ.
* Hassell, A, and MacRae, S: Alliance of Enemies: The Untold Story of the Secret American and German Collaboration to End World War II, Thomas Dunne Books, 2006
* Bruce, I. T., Thomas Buce: St Helena Postmaster and Stamp Designer, Thirty years of St Helena, Ascension and Tristan Philately, pp 7 – 10, 2006, ISBN 1-890454-37-0
* McLuhan, Marshall ( 2006 ) The Classical Trivium: The Place of Thomas Nashe in the Learning of His Time ( first publication of McLuhan's 1942 doctoral dissertation ); Gingko Press ISBN 1-58423-067-3.
* Julian Stockwin's nautical fiction series, the The Kydd Series, includes the book Command ( 2006 ) in which Thomas Kydd takes a ship to Van Diemen's Land, at the behest of then governor of New South Wales, Philip Gidley King, for the purpose of preventing French explorers from establishing a French settlement on the island.
Lansky's 1979 computer music piece " Her Song ", from the Six Fantasies On A Poem By Thomas Campion ( re-released on the album Fantasies and Tableaux, 1994 ), has also been sampled by Caural for his song " I Won't Race You ", from his 2006 album Mirrors For Eyes, with the main synthesized vocal line of Lansky's piece being used ( and being the basis for the title of the latter ).
Daley was a member of the Mayors Against Illegal Guns Coalition, an organization formed in 2006 and co-chaired by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Boston Mayor Thomas Menino.
* Kida, Thomas ( 2006 ) Don't Believe Everything You Think: The 6 Basic Mistakes We Make in Thinking New York: Prometheus.
* ABC Radio International program ( Ockham's Razor ) on Thomas Young – available for download and streaming ( as of 9 July 2006 )
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