Pynchon's commencement address

[David Kipen]

Okay, sorry, not really. But I'm about to give a graduation speech myself
next Sunday for the MFA students at Antioch in Southern California, and it
just doesn't seem right to bloviate at them for 20 minutes without quoting
the best writer I know. So my question to all you fellow keepers of the
flame is: Where in the Pynchon corpus can I find the most eloquent
exhortation -- either explicit ("Keep cool but care"), or implicit ("Now
everybody--") -- about how to live honorably, or to write well, or at least
somehow to keep the bastards at bay. Suggestions?

All finest,
David
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