Neko rece da se Carver i Pynchon ne mogu porediti, pa dobro onda, samo o Pynchonu.
Oh yes,
oh yes indeed NNNNNNNN Good Evening Tyrone Slothrop We Have Been Waiting For You. Of Course We Are Here. You Didn't Think We Had Just Faded Away, No, No Tyrone, We Must Hurt You Again If You Are Going To Be That Stupid, Hurt You Again And Again Yes Tyrone You Are So Hopeless So Stupid And Doomed. Are You Really Supposed To Find Anything? What If It Is Death Tyrone? What If We Don't Want You To Find Anything? If We Don't Want To Give You Your Discharge You'll Just Go On Like This Forever, Won't You? Maybe We Want You Only To Keep On. You Don't Know Do You Tyrone. What Makes You Think You Can Play As Well As We Can? You Can't. You Think You're Good But You're Really Shit And We All Know It. That Is In Your Dossier. (Laughter. Humming.)
Da li ste znali da se Pynchon pojavio i u animiranoj seriji
Simpsons?:
Pynchon on The Simpsons!
In the January 25, 2004, where Marge writes a novel and gets endorsements from writers playing themselves, including Tom Clancy and Thomas Pynchon, the Pynchon character was portrayed with a bag of his head, and Pynchon himself did the voice
Sce o Pynchonu
Ja mislim da je on bolji od Carvera za tri koplja, jer on naprosto izmislja svoju stvarnost, ne treba mu neki poznati "milje" da bi pod izgovorom da kritikuje i "razotkriva" malogrdajanshtinu, samo pokazivao svoju intelektualnu i moralnu nadmoc.
Nista me tako ne nervira kao neko ko je pametan samo da bi bio pametan i pokazivao kako su drugi glupi.