![]() ![]() ![]() bears a strong resemblance to the personal biography of Henry Adams: Herbert’s “desire to discover what or who V. Scholar Javaid Qazi suggests the narrative arc of Herbert Stencil in V. Pynchon, describing the themes behind his early stories, cites Adams, saying “Given my undergraduate mood, Adams's sense of power out of control, coupled with Wiener's spectacle of universal heat-death and mathematical stillness, seemed just the ticket” (Pynchon, Slow Learner). One book in which Pynchon found thematic accord was The Education of Henry Adams, authored by the grandson and great-grandson of the two Adams presidents. And what better testament to Pynchon’s reading than his own novels: like the far-reaching, historical, surreal, mixed-bag plots of V. and one that read and worked until 3 the next morning” (Nichols, “In and Out of Books”). A college-aged Thomas Pynchon was characterized by Lewis Nichols, a New York Times columnist, as “a constant reader-the type to read books on mathematics for fun. ![]()
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