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> List of Possible Descriptors for Thomas Pynchon’s Novel Against the Day
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> Study of light and non-light
> Byzantine mosaic
> Codex of visible and invisible
> Musical comedy
> Daffy
> Anarchist golf
> Photograph---the posing of, the taking of, the development of, the product of, the negative of, the future of, the past of, the continuous present of, the potential of...
> Revenge story
> Spy game
> Study of physical and metaphysical
> Likely too long for most readers
> Advent of modernity
> Kaleidoscopic
> Alternate history of labor unions
> Math discussion
> Alternate reality exercises
> Invisible portraits, invisible landscapes
> Epic romance
> Flight log
> Hat fetishes
> Overstuffed
> Hallucinogenic
> Endless digression
> Maps and legends
> Underappreciated
> Flaneur's game
> International intrigue
> Love story
> Lust story
> Series of ever-changing vectors
> Polyglossic carnival
> Sprawling
> Doppelgangers and the women who love them
> Vaudeville routine
> Infinite jest
> Over the sky, under the desert, into the center of the earth
> Boys' adventure story
> Girls' adventure story
> Post-Victorian sci-fi
> Acronyms!
> Zingers
> Mayonnaise history
> Magic trick
> Exiles
> Time travel calisthenics
> Art history
> Stamp collection
> Lumpy
> Like a surreal version of the game of Risk
> Genre mash-up
> Dream factory
> Gilded Age fallout
> Unwieldy
> Sentimental
> Ironic
> Holy Grail quest
> Whatever word is the most intense and accurate opposite of sparse
> Robber barons and the men who hate them
> Ever bilocating plot lines unfolding and retangling in the direction of increasing entropy
> Pulp fiction
> Invisible ink
> Flip side of a tapestry, its ragged threads exposed
> Salad of utopian visions
> Confusing
> Vision through Iceland spar
> Critique of capitalism
> Disappearing act
> Polyphonic spree
> Moving pictures
> Deconstruction of family values
> Drunken cavalcade of dick jokes
> Rage against the machine
> Time travelogue
> All-you-can-think
> Anti-war tract
> Explosions!
> Seance
> Shaggy ______________
> Critique of oligarchy
> Jazz improvisation
> Polyamory-positive
> Coffee-positive
> Meta-something-or-other
> Cricket with no scorekeeper
> 1,085 pages in hardback
> Often fuzzy, bilocated, discursive---full of flashforwards and flashbacks and side flashes
> Sexy sex sex
> Funhouse maze with smoke and mirrors
> High adventure
> Dictionary of mysticism
> Scathing analysis of Manifest Destiny
> Simultaneously heavy and light, profound and sophomoric
> "What It Means to Be an American"
> Goofy
> Drug manual
> Positive visions of the possibilities for human coexistence
> Index of wonderfully bad puns
> Perpetual motion machine
> Spiralling and unspiralling riffage
> A zillion dime novels turned on their ears and spines and just spinning
> Flight toward grace
> Biblioklept | September 1, 2013 at 2:11 pm | Tags: Against the Day, Thomas Pynchon | Categories: Books, Literature, Writers | URL: http://wp.me/p1Hg2-8dU
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