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  1. Thomas Pynchon _ Slow Learner: Early Stories

    What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux.
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  2. Thomas Pynchon _ Slow Learner: Early Stories

    It is simply wrong to begin with a theme, symbol or other abstract unifying agent, and then try to force characters and events to conform to it.
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  3. Thomas Pynchon _ Slow Learner: Early Stories

    Everybody gets told to write about what they know. The trouble with many of us is that at the earlier stages of life we think we know everything- or to put it more usefully, we are often unaware of the scope and structure of our ignorance.
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  4. Thomas Pynchon _ Slow Learner: Early Stories

    A todo el mundo se le dice que escriba acerca de lo que conoce. El problema para muchos de nosotros es que en la juventud creemos saberlo todo o, por decirlo de un modo más útil, con frecuencia desconocemos el alcance y la estructura de nuestra ignorancia, la cual no es sólo un espacio en blanco en el mapa mental de una persona, sino que tiene contornos y coherencia y, por lo que sé, también tiene sus normas".
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  5. Thomas Pynchon _ Slow Learner: Early Stories

    But as we all know, rock 'n' roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever."
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  6. Thomas Pynchon _ Slow Learner: Early Stories

    What I mean is something like a closed circuit. Everybody on the same frequency. And after a while you forget about the rest of the spectrum and start believing that this is the only frequency that counts or is real. While outside, all up and down the land, there are these wonderful colors and x-rays and ultraviolets going on.
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  7. Thomas Pynchon _ Slow Learner: Early Stories

    This advice has been given often and more compellingly elsewhere, but my specific piece of wrong procedure back then was, incredibly, to browse through the thesaurus and note words that sounded cool, hip, or likely to produce an effect, usually that of making me look good, without then taking the trouble to go and find out in the dictionary what they meant
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  8. Thomas Pynchon _ Slow Learner: Early Stories

    Because everybody on the school board, and the railroad, and the PTA and paper mill had to be somebody's mother or father, whether really or as a member of a category; and there was a point at which the reflex to their covering warmth, protection, effectiveness against bad dreams, bruised heads and simple loneliness took over and made worthwhile anger with them impossible.
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