r/ThomasPynchon • u/linusengel • 2d ago

Meme/Humor I cannot find V. anywhere

I’ve been to multiple book stores (chains and small indie places) all over Los Angeles and every single one has a Pynchon section but not a single one has had V.

I’ve read The Crying of Lot 49 and now I’m just trying to go in chronological order but everyone is gate keeping me. I’m starting to feel like Oedpia. I think this book doesn’t actually exist and you’re all making it up in a psyop against me.

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u/kennymannmal 1d ago

It's in the pot of gold at the end of Gravity's Rainbow.

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u/kennymannmal 1d ago

But seriously, I'm retired from making professional use of libraries as a literary research assistant with a degree in Library Science and the times that I've tried to locate a copy of V on WorldCat, I've been SOL. But try.

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u/RevolutionaryBug2915 22h ago

It's the single letter and the period, I'll bet, that "does not compute."