Against the Day
Update: the wait is over
Noice
My favourite author, Thomas Pynchon, has written a new book "Against the Day" which comes out in November. From the author's own description of it:
The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.
As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it’s their lives that pursue them.
Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they’re doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.
Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck.
Plagiarized content will have to do for now, I'm too busy at the mo to write anything interesting, or do anything interesting and then write about it. Unless trying to get Matlab to solve periodic Riccati equations is interesting to you... but if it is, stay tuned, strap yourself in, and get ready for the ride of your life!
Noice
My favourite author, Thomas Pynchon, has written a new book "Against the Day" which comes out in November. From the author's own description of it:
The sizable cast of characters includes anarchists, balloonists, gamblers, corporate tycoons, drug enthusiasts, innocents and decadents, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, psychics, and stage magicians, spies, detectives, adventuresses, and hired guns. There are cameo appearances by Nikola Tesla, Bela Lugosi, and Groucho Marx.
As an era of certainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it’s their lives that pursue them.
Meanwhile, the author is up to his usual business. Characters stop what they’re doing to sing what are for the most part stupid songs. Strange sexual practices take place. Obscure languages are spoken, not always idiomatically. Contrary-to-the-fact occurrences occur. If it is not the world, it is what the world might be with a minor adjustment or two. According to some, this is one of the main purposes of fiction.
Let the reader decide, let the reader beware. Good luck.
Plagiarized content will have to do for now, I'm too busy at the mo to write anything interesting, or do anything interesting and then write about it. Unless trying to get Matlab to solve periodic Riccati equations is interesting to you... but if it is, stay tuned, strap yourself in, and get ready for the ride of your life!
posted by I-Rock at 11:56 PM
9 Comments:
Oh - I'm so excited to read about Matlab. I like all Mats and labs I've come across, except for ones that condone animal testing*, or specifically Mat from work who is a bit sleazy.
this applies to both labs and Mats.
reminds me of this old nugget:
Maybe in order to understand mankind we have to look at that word itself. MANKIND. Basically, it's made up of two separate words "mank" and "ind." What do these words mean? It's a mystery and that's why so is mankind.
-Jack Handey
But didn't a recent YouTubing solve the problem of "mank"?
Are you really so anti animal testing? In all contexts? Really? Is there a line? Do you include invertibrets?
Man milk .. or as its commonly called, Mank!!!
Who is Jack Handey and why is he so funny?
Nobody knows who he really is. Actually, probably lots of people do, but I don't and I can't be arsed looking it up.
My favourite:
If I lived back in the wild west days, instead of carrying a six-gun in my holster, I'd carry a soldering iron. That way, if some smart-aleck cowboy said something like "Hey, look. He's carrying a soldering iron!" and started laughing, and everybody else started laughing, I could just say, "That's right, it's a soldering iron. The soldering iron of justice." Then everybody would get real quiet and ashamed, because they had made fun of the soldering iron of justice, and I could probably hit them up for a free drink.
Ha ha!! I like him.
hey is thomas pynchon that author that's on the simpsons sometimes?? they joke about him being a recluse....
Yep, he's very reclusive. For more than 40 years nobody knew where he lived, what he looked like, or if that was his real name. It was rumoured he was actually J.D. Salinger writing under a different name (not true).
But it is his real voice on the Simpsons.
wikipedia has a navy pic of him from 1957, looks kinda goofy!
Ooooooh... wavy plots....
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