Thomas Pynchon Quote
What’ll happen is, Alex McClean advises, is you’ll get hammer’d paying double taxes, visits all the time from Sheriffs of both provinces looking for their quitrents, tax collectors from Philadelphia and Annapolis, and sooner or later you’ll have to decide just to get it up on some Logs, and roll it, one way or the other. Depends how your Property runs, I’d guess. . . . as North is pretty much up-hill, Mr. Price is reckoning, ’twould certainly not be as easy, to roll her up into Pennsylvania, as down into Maryland. Where I am no longer your Wife, she reminds him. Aye, and there’s another reason, he nods soberly. Well then, let’s fetch the Boys and get to it,— ’tis Maryland, ho!
What’ll happen is, Alex McClean advises, is you’ll get hammer’d paying double taxes, visits all the time from Sheriffs of both provinces looking for their quitrents, tax collectors from Philadelphia and Annapolis, and sooner or later you’ll have to decide just to get it up on some Logs, and roll it, one way or the other. Depends how your Property runs, I’d guess. . . . as North is pretty much up-hill, Mr. Price is reckoning, ’twould certainly not be as easy, to roll her up into Pennsylvania, as down into Maryland. Where I am no longer your Wife, she reminds him. Aye, and there’s another reason, he nods soberly. Well then, let’s fetch the Boys and get to it,— ’tis Maryland, ho!
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About Thomas Pynchon
Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon served two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known: V. (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), and Gravity's Rainbow (1973). Rumors of a historical novel about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon had circulated as early as the 1980s; the novel, Mason & Dixon, was published in 1997 to critical acclaim. His 2009 novel Inherent Vice was adapted into a feature film by Paul Thomas Anderson in 2014. Pynchon is notoriously reclusive from the media; few photographs of him have been published, and rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s. Pynchon's most recent novel, Shadow Ticket, is expected to be published in 2025.