13: In which we wonder, what if this book was, like, six times as long? (The Crying of Lot 49 Ch. 6)

Angels, dark and light, descend on Southern California, and we bid adieu to Arnold Snarb, I mean, Edna Mosh. 

Next time, Gravity’s Rainbow sections 1.1 through 1.9, or pp. 1-60 in the U.S. Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition. 

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Show Notes:

“The Simple Art of Murder,” by Raymond Chandler, online e-book via Faded Page. 

Thomas Pyncon’s introduction to Richard Fariña’s Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me, via pynchon.pomona.edu. 

Content warnings: strong language, physical and sexual violence, misogyny, suicide, antisemitism, pedophilia. 

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Featuring Patrick Fiorilli, Andrew Tillett, and Duri Long.

Produced and edited by Patrick Fiorilli (www.patf.io and @patfio.bsky.social).

Our theme music is “Horology,” by King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, released under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives license on the album Polygondwanaland.