Pynchon's commencement address

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If they've got you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about the answers.
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From: "David Kipen" <kipend at gmail.com>
> 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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