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You can hear Pynchon pronounce it himself in his Simpsons cameo. :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcYXWfGt7DY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcYXWfGt7DY
by jjulius 4y ago
You can hear Pynchon pronounce it himself in his Simpsons cameo. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcYXWfGt7DY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QcYXWfGt7DY
- dang 4y agoI was just watching it and didn't catch that! However. Assuming (rather safely) that he pronounces his own name correctly, NYT transcribed it badly. He doesn't stress the second syllable, as in "Lebron". He stresses the two syllables equally. That is, he says it as "pinch on", the way you might say it in "something to pinch on".
- clairity 4y agothat's how i learned it (equally stressed syllables) from my history of science professor, who (sadistically) assigned gravity's rainbow for the meticulously researched, and fanciful, historical digressions strewn throughout the book. glad to know he wasn't wrong about the pronunciation. that was my intro to pynchon, being thrown head-first into the deep end. i did actually read the book, but it was... challenging. i appreciate the experience in hindsight, but rued every minute of it at the time.