“I want to break out — to leave this cycle of infection and death. I want to be taken in love: so taken that you and I, and death, and life, will be gathered inseparable, into the radiance of what we would become….”

— Thomas Pynchon , book Gravity's Rainbow

Gravity's Rainbow (1973)

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American novelist 1937

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