Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
Before writing Lot 49, Pynchon worked as a technical writer for the Boeing Corporation. Way to be a genius, Pynchon. (Source)
At Cornell Pynchon studied under Vladimir Nabokov, whose famous novel Lolita is mocked in Lot 49. (Source)
The NYTimes called The Crying of Lot 49 a "tryst with America." Saucy!
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