Frases de Thomas Pynchon

„ay jalisco, no te rejas“

—  Thomas Pynchon, libro Against the Day

Against the Day

„Tío, quiero morirme, es lo único que quiero -gritó Ploy.
- ¿No sabes -dijo Dahoud- que la vida es el bien más preciado que tienes?
- Jo, jo -soltó Ploy entre lágrimas-. ¿Y eso por qué?
- Pues porque sin ella -dijo Dahoud- estarías muerto.
- Ah -dijo Ploy.“

—  Thomas Pynchon

V.

„¿Y qué quieres?, ¿es que sólo tengo que fiarme de las buenas personas?, tío, a las buenas personas las compran y las venden todos los días. Tanto da que me fíe de algún auténtico cabrón de vez en cuando, al final viene a ser lo mismo. Quiero decir que no apostaría por ninguno de los dos.“

—  Thomas Pynchon, libro Inherent Vice

Inherent Vice

„Déjeme ser claro. Prefiero no ser fotografiado.“

—  Thomas Pynchon

Llamada telefónica a la CNN como se informó en un artículo de la CNN (5 de junio de 1997). http://cgi.cnn.com/US/9706/05/pynchon/

„El mundo tiene la culpa, no porque sea intrínsecamente bueno o malo o nada, sino por lo que es, porque no nos preparamos en nada excepto para llevarse bien con el cuerpo.“

—  Thomas Pynchon

Carta a Jules Siegel, publicado en la revista Cavalier (Agosto de 1965); vuelto a publicar en "Pynchon notes 15" and " "The World is at Fault" http://against-the-day.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=The_World_is_at_Fault at pynchonwiki.com http://pynchonwiki.com/

„Esta es su cita: "A Thomas Pynchon le encantó este libro, casi tanto como ama las cámaras!"
¡Cómo por aquí! ¡Ha tomado una foto con un autor solitario! Sólo hoy, ¡vamos a dar un autógrafo gratis! Pero espere, ¡hay más!“

—  Thomas Pynchon

Interpretándose a sí mismo (representado con una bolsa de papel sobre su cabeza) en un episodio de Los Simpson, Diatriba de un ama de casa loca.

„Pienso que solitario es una palabra codificada generada por los periodistas… significa que no me gusta hablar con los periodistas.“

—  Thomas Pynchon

Llamada telefónica a la CNN (5 de junio de 1997).

„¿Por qué las cosas deberían ser fáciles de entender?“

—  Thomas Pynchon

Respuesta de Pynchon a Jules Siegel sobre la complejidad de V., en el artículo "Who Is Thomas Pynchon... And Why Did He Take Off With My Wife?", Playboy (Marzo de 1977)

„Yo no escribí esas cartas. Ha sido un rumor extendido del que no tenido nada que ver. Siento que se haya extendido en la forma que se ha hecho.“

—  Thomas Pynchon

Sobre los rumores de que había escrito varias cartas a un periódico con el nombre de Wanda Tinasky, en una llamada telefónica a la CNN (5 de junio de 1997).

„A todo el mundo se le dice que escriba acerca de lo que conoce. El problema para muchos de nosotros es que en la juventud creemos saberlo todo o, por decirlo de un modo más útil, con frecuencia desconocemos el alcance y la estructura de nuestra ignorancia, la cual no es sólo un espacio en blanco en el mapa mental de una persona, sino que tiene contornos y coherencia y, por lo que sé, también tiene sus normas”.“

—  Thomas Pynchon, libro Lento aprendizaje

Slow Learner: Early Stories

„Once they have you asking the wrong questions. They don't have to worry about the answers.“

—  Thomas Pynchon, libro El arco iris de gravedad

Variante: If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Fuente: Gravity's Rainbow

„To have humanism we must first be convinced of our humanity. As we move further into decadence this becomes more difficult.“

—  Thomas Pynchon, libro V.

Fuente: V.

„LATER than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof. In his dream these had been carrier pigeons from someplace far across the ocean, landing and taking off again one by one, each bearing a message for him, but none of whom, light pulsing in their wings, he could ever quite get to in time.“

—  Thomas Pynchon, libro Vineland

First lines
Vineland (1990)
Contexto: LATER than usual one summer morning in 1984, Zoyd Wheeler drifted awake in sunlight through a creeping fig that hung in the window, with a squadron of blue jays stomping around on the roof. In his dream these had been carrier pigeons from someplace far across the ocean, landing and taking off again one by one, each bearing a message for him, but none of whom, light pulsing in their wings, he could ever quite get to in time. He understood it to be another deep nudge from forces unseen, almost surely connected with the letter that had come along with his latest mental-disability check, reminding him that unless he did something publicly crazy before a date now less than a week away, he would no longer qualify for benefits. He groaned out of bed.

„There was no difference between the behavior of a god and the operations of pure chance.“

—  Thomas Pynchon, libro El arco iris de gravedad

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

„Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.“

—  Thomas Pynchon

„Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.“

—  Thomas Pynchon, libro V.

Fuente: V.

„I want you to hold this for me, till I ask for it back. It looks like Italo is going to get here before Tamara, and I'm not sure which one“

—  Thomas Pynchon, libro El arco iris de gravedad

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Contexto: "You." A finger the size of a corncob, an inch from Slothrop's nose.
...
"Look," Slothrop's friend producing a kraft-paper envelope that even in the gloom Slothrop can tell is fat with American Army yellow-seal scrip, "I want you to hold this for me, till I ask for it back. It looks like Italo is going to get here before Tamara, and I'm not sure which one"
"At this rate, Tamara's gonna get here before tonight," Slothrop interjects in a Groucho Marx voice.
"Don't try to undermine my confidence in you," advises the Large One. "You're the man."

„If he’d been the type who evolves theories of history for his own amusement, he might have said all political events: wars, governments and uprisings, have the desire to get laid as their roots; because history unfolds according to economic forces and the only reason anybody wants to get rich is so he can get laid steadily, with whoever he chooses.“

—  Thomas Pynchon, libro V.

Fuente: V. (1963), Chapter Eight
Contexto: The eyes of New York women do not see the wandering bums or the boys with no place to go. Material wealth and getting laid strolled arm-in-arm the midway of Profane’s mind. If he’d been the type who evolves theories of history for his own amusement, he might have said all political events: wars, governments and uprisings, have the desire to get laid as their roots; because history unfolds according to economic forces and the only reason anybody wants to get rich is so he can get laid steadily, with whoever he chooses. All he believed at this point, on the bench behind the library was, that any body who worked for inanimate money so he could by more inanimate objects was out of his head. Inanimate money was to get animate warmth, dead fingernails in the living shoulderblades, quick cries against the pillow, tangled hair, lidded eyes, listing loins.

„Don't try to undermine my confidence in you“

—  Thomas Pynchon, libro El arco iris de gravedad

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Contexto: "You." A finger the size of a corncob, an inch from Slothrop's nose.
...
"Look," Slothrop's friend producing a kraft-paper envelope that even in the gloom Slothrop can tell is fat with American Army yellow-seal scrip, "I want you to hold this for me, till I ask for it back. It looks like Italo is going to get here before Tamara, and I'm not sure which one"
"At this rate, Tamara's gonna get here before tonight," Slothrop interjects in a Groucho Marx voice.
"Don't try to undermine my confidence in you," advises the Large One. "You're the man."