“Interested in sophisticated fun?”
 (Introduction)
Or: “Why is this site called Spermatikos Logos?” A short explanation of the birth of this site and an introduction to its parents.
The reality is in
this
head. Mine. I’m the projector at the planetarium
(Biography)
A small biography of the reclusive Thomas Pynchon, American Writer.
Fragments of vessels broken at the Creation
(Works & Bibliography)
A general overview of the fictional stars in Pynchon’s constellation of works.
Specific Works:
His mind, always gathering correspondences
(Pynchon’s Essays & Introductions)
An online collection of various essays, reviews, endorsements and liner notes written by Pynchon himself.
“What’s his message?” they’d interrogate anxiously. “What does he want?”
(Criticism)
A list of books and articles written about Pynchon and his works.
A legend to be deciphered by the lords of the winter
(Online Papers)
More literary criticism, but all these papers about Pynchon’s work are available online.
Now don’t everbody yell at once
(Reviews)
 Online reviews of everything from
Slow Learner
to
Mason & Dixon
.
Each utterance a closed flower, capable of exfoliation and infinite revealing
(Quotations)
A collection of interesting quotations, remarks, paranoid soliloquies and other musings culled from the Pynchon
oeuvre.
“Direct, though not necessarily live”
(Audio: Books on Tape)
Currently the only offering of Pynchon on tape is limited to
Mason & Dixon
.
A camera is a gun. An image taken is a death performed. Images put together are the substructure of an afterlife and a Judgment.
(Film & TV)
Films and documentaries that have featured Pynchon or have been inspired by his work.
They stood at the window and heard the Paranoids singing
(Music)
Musical artists that have been inspired by the works of Pynchon, collected by the good folks at KCUF.
“The White Visitation”
(Images)
A collection of Pynchonesque images. Within the walls of “The White Visitation” you will find truth and delusions, chaos and cosmos, dreams that befit the new denizens of an old asylum.
El labertino de tu incertidumbre/ Me trama con la disquietante luna
(Unique Pynchonalia)
A few rare and interesting items of Pynchonalia discovered in the archives of the riverrun Discordian Society.
Before Intoxication sets in, continuing to seek, somewhere in the perilous Texts of Faction, Insult, and Threat, a Line or two of worth, to take home with him.
(Influence)
Writers & artists who have made reference or have been influenced by Pynchon.
(Planned for the Future)
Tended lovingly and honorably by fabulists and counterfeiters, Ballad-Mongers and Cranks of ev’ry Radius
(Communities)
A directory of online mailing lists, clubs, and reading groups related to Pynchon and his work.
Someday it’ll all be done by machine. Information machines. You are the wave of the future
(Bookstore)
A very comprehensive catalog of Pynchon works and Pynchon-related titles, directly available for ordering online through Amazon.com Books.
The dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World
(Offsite Links)
Links to other sites relating to Pynchon and his works.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers
(FAQ: Frequently Asked Questions)
 Do you have a question about Pynchon, this Web site, or the guys that run it? Try the Spermatikos Logos FAQ file first.
“Welcome to Dr. Larry’s World of Discomfort,” he would whisper, going through the paperwork.
(Contact I)
Contact Dr Larry Daw if you have any questions or comments about Pynchon.
“Goodo,” said Picnic, blinking. “Man, look at the quail.”
(Contact II)
Contact the Great Quail if you have any suggestions, submissions, or criticisms about this site.
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