* 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 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.

" T. Coraghessan Boyle of The New York Times Book Review wrote, " This is old Pynchon, the true Pynchon, the best Pynchon of all, Mason & Dixon is a groundbreaking book, a book of heart and fire and genius, and there is nothing quite like it in our literature ," New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani said, " A novel that is as moving as it is cerebral, as poignant as it is daring ... a book that testifies to Pynchon's remarkable powers of invention and his sheer power as a storyteller.

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Mason is one of the titular characters of Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon.

The song " Sailing to Philadelphia " from Mark Knopfler's album of the same name, also has strong references to Mason and Dixon, and was inspired by Pynchon's book.

Jeremiah Dixon is one of the two titular characters of Thomas Pynchon's 1997 novel Mason & Dixon.

The song Sailing to Philadelphia from Mark Knopfler's album of the same name, also refers to Mason and Dixon, and was inspired by Pynchon's book.

* He is also mentioned in Thomas Pynchon's novel, Mason and Dixon.

Mark Sanderson calls the novel an " astonishing achievement ", and compares Quicksilver to " Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and Lawrence Norfolk's Lempriere's Dictionary.

The title track is drawn from Thomas Pynchon's novel about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, the two English surveyors who established the border between Pennsylvania and Maryland, Delaware and Virginia in the 1760s.

Telluric currents, along what are effectively ley lines, are discovered to be a means of mysterious communication in Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon and are associated with the book's Chinese-Jesuit subplot.

" Youghiogheny, Pennsylvania ," is mentioned in a Rocky and Bullwinkle cartoon show, and the Youghiogheny is referred to as Yochio Geni in Thomas Pynchon's novel Mason & Dixon.

Thomas Pynchon's Mason and Dixon also employs this concept ; for example, a scene featuring George Washington smoking marijuana is included.

Yet there are counter-examples, such as Pynchon's Mason & Dixon and David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest where postmodern narrative coexists with emotional commitment.

* 1997: Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon

This extensive extra-textual apparatus is reminiscent of postmodernist works, such as David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest ( 1996 ) and Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon ( 1997 ), particularly as Clarke's notes humorously refer to previous notes in the novel.

The " hysterical " prose style is often mated to " realistic ", almost journalistic, effects, such as Pynchon's depiction of 18th century land surveys in Mason & Dixon, Don DeLillo's treatment of Lee Harvey Oswald in Libra, or Robert Clark Young's treatment of the arcana of U. S. Navy life in One of the Guys.

Staindrop is mentioned in Thomas Pynchon's historical fiction novel Mason & Dixon as containing Jeremiah Dixon's favourite public house.

" In 1640, Springfield was officially renamed after Pynchon's home village, now a suburb of Chelmsford in Essex, England — due to Pynchon's grace following a dispute with Hartford, Connecticut's Captain John Mason over, essentially, whether to treat local natives as friends or enemies.

A fictitious enhancement of Vaucanson's original duck, the mythical counterpart to the one seen in the image above, figures prominently in Thomas Pynchon's historical novel Mason & Dixon.

A character in Thomas Pynchon's Mason & Dixon ( 1997 ) says he has " look'd on Worlds far distant, their Beauty how pitiless ", evoking the similar lines in the monologue.

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.

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 ).

" Harold Bloom has also called the novel " Pynchon's masterpiece to date.

New York artist Zak Smith created a series of 760 drawings entitled, " One Picture for Every Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow " ( also known by the title " Pictures of What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow ").

The Phoebus cartel is also featured in fictionalized form as a minor plot element in Thomas Pynchon's novel Gravity's Rainbow.

It also references Thomas Pynchon's novel, V ..

* The film The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension uses Pynchon's fictional defense contractor Yoyodyne Propulsion Systems, introduced in this novel.

Wilson claims his book was already complete by the time he and Shea read Pynchon's novel ( which went on to win several awards ), but they then went back and made some modifications to the text before its final publication to allude to Pynchon's work.

This was due to the fact that Pynchon's final modifications were made after the first edition was printed and thus were only implemented in the British, or Jonathan Cape, edition and the Bantam paperback.

The fact was forgotten soon after in the U. S., so most US editions, including the newly released eBook, follow the first printing and are therefore unauthorized versions of the text, while the British editions, which follow the first edition printed by Jonathan Cape, contain Pynchon's final revisions.

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 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.

Club, observed " Whatever meanings and complex messages may lie hidden in Pynchon's text can, for now, be left to develop subconsciously as the reader enjoys the more immediate rewards of the work of a consummate storyteller.

Steven C. Weisenburger's produced A Gravity's Rainbow Companion: Sources and Contexts for Pynchon's Novel ( ISBN 0-8203-1026-3 ).

In Thomas Pynchon's V. ( 1963 ), a character called Esther is reading The Search for Bridey Murphy as she is sitting on a bus.

Elizur and Mary Pynchon's marriage was the first for the then small community.

The book Zak Smith: Pictures of Girls ( Distributed Art Publishers, 2005 ) includes selected plates from the series ' Girls in the Naked Girl Business, 100 Girls and 100 Octopuses, and One Picture for Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel Gravity's Rainbow, in addition to stand-alone pieces from the period 2000-2005.