Thomas Pynchon was the
David Foster Wallace of the 1960's-1970's, (although he has been writing strong as of 2013). He was a
post-modernist, "thinking-man's hippie," I guess. His sprawling masterpiece was,
Gravity's Rainbow, (1973), which explored such realms as:
preterition,
paranoia,
racism,
colonialism,
conspiracy,
synchronicity, and
entropy,
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