Thomas Pynchon Quote
When they come to explain about the two Transits of Venus, and the American Work filling the Years between, By Heaven, a ‘Sandwich,’ cries Mr. Edgewise. Take good care, Sirs, that something don’t come along and eat it! His pleasure at being able to utter a recently minted word, is at once much curtailed by the volatile Chef de Cuisine Armand Allègre, who rushes from the Kitchen screaming. Sond-weech-uh! Sond-weech-uh!, gesticulating as well, To the Sacrament of the Eating, it is ever the grand Insult! Cries of Anti-Britannic! and Shame, Mounseer! Mitzi clutches herself. No Mercy! Oh, he’s so ’cute! Young Dimdown may be seen working himself up to a level of indignation that will allow him at least to pull out his naked Hanger again, and wave it about a bit. Where I come from, he offers, Lord Sandwich is as much respected for his nobility as admired for his Ingenuity, in creating the great modern Advance in Diet which bears his name, and I would suggest,— without of course wishing to offend,— that it ill behooves some bloody little toad-eating foreigner to speak his name in any but a respectful manner. Had I my batterie des couteaux, replies the Frenchman, with more gallantry than sense, before that ridiculous little blade is out of his sheath, I can bone you,— like the Veal!
When they come to explain about the two Transits of Venus, and the American Work filling the Years between, By Heaven, a ‘Sandwich,’ cries Mr. Edgewise. Take good care, Sirs, that something don’t come along and eat it! His pleasure at being able to utter a recently minted word, is at once much curtailed by the volatile Chef de Cuisine Armand Allègre, who rushes from the Kitchen screaming. Sond-weech-uh! Sond-weech-uh!, gesticulating as well, To the Sacrament of the Eating, it is ever the grand Insult! Cries of Anti-Britannic! and Shame, Mounseer! Mitzi clutches herself. No Mercy! Oh, he’s so ’cute! Young Dimdown may be seen working himself up to a level of indignation that will allow him at least to pull out his naked Hanger again, and wave it about a bit. Where I come from, he offers, Lord Sandwich is as much respected for his nobility as admired for his Ingenuity, in creating the great modern Advance in Diet which bears his name, and I would suggest,— without of course wishing to offend,— that it ill behooves some bloody little toad-eating foreigner to speak his name in any but a respectful manner. Had I my batterie des couteaux, replies the Frenchman, with more gallantry than sense, before that ridiculous little blade is out of his sheath, I can bone you,— like the Veal!
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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.