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This is the Wiki for [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s ''Bleeding Edge''. Besides using the [[BE_Alpha_Nav|Alphabetical Index]] and the [[Bleeding_Edge_-_Page_by_Page|page-by-page annotation]], you can also take a look at [[Bleeding Edge cover analysis|''Bleeding Edge'' covers]], read the [[Bleeding Edge Reviews|reviews]], or [[Bleeding Edge Title|entertain some theories on the source of the title]].
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This is the Wiki for [[Thomas Pynchon]]'s ''Bleeding Edge''. Besides using the [[BE_Alpha_Nav|'''Alphabetical Index''']] and the [[Bleeding_Edge_-_Page_by_Page|'''page-by-page annotation''']], you can also take a look at [[Bleeding Edge cover analysis|''Bleeding Edge'' cover analyses]], read the [[Bleeding Edge Reviews|reviews]], or [[Bleeding Edge Title|entertain some theories on the source of the title]].
  
 
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[[The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukuleles|'''Hawaiian cultural references in ''Bleeding Edge''''']]</div>
 
[[The_Hawaiian_Islands_and_Ukuleles|'''Hawaiian cultural references in ''Bleeding Edge''''']]</div>
  
==Pynchon Narrates ''Bleeding Edge'' Promotional Video==
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Penguin Press confirms that the video is narrated by Pynchon. [http://shelf-life.ew.com/2009/08/11/thomas-pynchon-speaks-inherent-vice-trailer/ Source]
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[[Comments_and_Questions_re_the_Promo_Video|'''Read &#151; and participate in &#151; a discussion of this video &#187;''']]
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==How to Use this Wiki==
 
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Apart from those, it's up to you.
 
Apart from those, it's up to you.
  
==Alphabetical Index==
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==Page by Page Annotations==
 
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==Featured Articles==
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[[File:Michael-Chabon.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Michael Chabon<br />Photo: ''The East Bay Monthly'']]'''Wow! Writer Michael Chabon delivers a wonderful, insightful review of ''Bleeding Edge''.''' Chabon's a long-time appreciator of Pynchon and his perspective on the work is unsurpassed, and his 11/07/13 review for ''The New York Review of Books'' is illuminating...<br />"One ought to be accustomed, by now, to Pynchon’s leaving his mysteries unresolved, or at least prepared to give him credit for having done so on purpose. Incompleteness is the inherent vice of paranoid theories of history, the limitation of such theories that Pynchon has always freely acknowledged. Criticism of Pynchon’s “shaggy dog” or sloppy plotting neglects the emphasis that he has always laid on the dual meaning of the word ''plot''. From ''V.'' forward, nearly all his novels have been founded on a bedrock of detective fiction and underlayed with science fiction, boy’s adventure, westerns, spy fiction, and other genres that rely, like conspiracy theories, on plotting. His broken plots expose the epistemological brokenness of paranoid systems, which are, after all, nothing but attempts, grander but no less doomed to failure than anyone’s, to make sense of a broken world." [http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/nov/07/thomas-pynchon-crying-september-11/ Full article &#187;]
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[[File:Harpers-Review-Pemberton-Illustration.png|thumb|left|200px|Illustration: Simon Pemberton]]'''An exellent ''Harper's Magazine'' article that combines a review of ''Bleeding Edge'' with detailed biographical and genealogical info on Mr. Pynchon, and a Must Read!'''<br />"''Bleeding Edge'', however, offers an indication that Pynchon has finally given up on seeking the soul of the nation his family helped found. For Pynchon — the embattled bard of the counterculture, disabused of all allegiance — the last redoubt has become the family, and the last war to be waged is between our virtual identities and the bonds of blood; a war to keep the Virtual from corrupting the Blood, if not forever, then for time enough to let the lil’ Ziggy and Otis Tarnow-Loefflers of this world live with the merest pretense of freedom (childhood). Pynchon understands that in the future there will be no secrets, no hidden complots — everything will be aired and any second life, whether in the cloud or in the firmament, will be despoiled or denied us. Adult sanity, then, must depend not on the lives we make online, but on the lives we make off it — our kids — on how we love them, and how we raise them, and the virtues and good-taste imperatives we pass on to them from our progenitors." [http://harpers.org/archive/2013/10/first-family-second-life/ Full article &#187;]
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[[File:Lethem-BleedingEdge.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Illustration: Mario Wagner]] '''Jonathan Lethem's review of ''Bleeding Edge'' for ''The New York Times'' is one of the most intelligent and insightful reviews.''' Like Michael Chabon, Lethem ''gets'' it!<br />"[There is] the sheer vitality and fascination, the plummets into beauty and horror, the unique flashes of galactic epiphany, in Pynchon’s method. Our reward for surrendering expectations that a novel should gather in clarity, rather than disperse into molecules, isn’t anomie but delight. Pynchon himself’s a good companion, full of real affection for his people and places, even as he lampoons them for suffering the postmodern condition of being only partly real. He spoils us with descriptive flights." [http://www.nytimes.com/2013/09/15/books/review/bleeding-edge-by-thomas-pynchon.html Read the review...]
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[[File:Michiko-Kakutani.jpg|left|80px|thumb|Image: Slate]] Noticing that ''New York Times'' critic '''Michiko Kakutani''' has panned every Pynchon novel after ''Mason & Dixon'' (1997) &#151; the latest target being [[Bleeding_Edge_Reviews#kakutani|''Bleeding Edge'']] &#151; I became curious as to just who this grumpy critic is. If you're curious too, read "Assessing Michiko Kakutani":
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"Kakutani doesn't offer the stylistic flair, the wit, or the insight one gets from Kael and other first-rate critics; for her, the verdict is the only thing. One has the sense of her deciding roughly at Page 2 whether or not a book is worthy; reading the rest of it to gather evidence for her case; spending some quality time with the Thesaurus; and then taking a large blunt hammer and pounding the message home." [http://www.slate.com/articles/arts/culturebox/2006/04/michiko_kakutani.html Read on...]
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[[File:PubWeekly-logo.png|left]] '''''Bleeding Edge'' Review by David Kipen, for ''Publishers Weekly''''', is a well written and insightful appreciation of Pynchon's craft and his new novel! "No one, but no one, rivals Pynchon's range of language, his elasticity of syntax, his signature mix of dirty jokes, dread and shining decency." [http://www.publishersweekly.com/978-1-59420-423-4 Read the review...]
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* [https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&authuser=0&q=thomas+pynchon&oq=thomas+pynchon Latest news on Thomas Pynchon (Google News)]
 
* [http://www.thomaspynchon.com/ ThomasPynchon.com]
 
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* [http://www.hashslingrz.com/ hashslingrz.com]
 
* [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/ The Modern Word Pynchon page]
 
* [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/ The Modern Word Pynchon page]
: [http://www.themodernword.com/pynchon/pynchon_vice.html The Modern Word: Bleeding Edge]
 
: [http://z11.invisionfree.com/thefictionalwoods/index.php The Fictional Woods] - a Pynchon forum
 
 
* [http://pynchonoid.blogspot.com/ Pynchonoid Blog]
 
* [http://pynchonoid.blogspot.com/ Pynchonoid Blog]
* [http://inherentvice.wordpress.com Bleeding Edge blog] A blog filled in while reading Bleeding Edge
 
* [http://twitter.com/viceinherent Bleeding Edge on Twitter]
 
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Edge Wikipedia Bleeding Edge page]
 
* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleeding_Edge Wikipedia Bleeding Edge page]
* [http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2009/pl_print_1708 Wired Magazine Unofficial Thomas Pynchon Guide to Los Angeles]
 
* [http://www.theaesthetic.com/NewFiles/pynchon.html Thomas Pynchon in Manhattan Beach]
 
* [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n24/bill-pearlman/short-cuts Bill Pearlman's recollections of Pynchon in Manhattan Beach]
 
* [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204619004574318360877609486.html ''The Wall Street Journal'': Pynchon’s Drugstore Thriller (July 30, 2009)]
 
* [http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/on/thomas_pynchon_tv_123248.asp GalleyCat's Jason Boog stitched together vintage footage of 1970s California, private detectives, old-time computers, and some choice passages from ''Bleeding Edge'']
 
* [http://www.u-town.com/iv iv &ndash; a site about Bleeding Edge]
 
* [http://literarywiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Literarywiki.org] - wiki annotations to works by Pynchon, Umberto Eco, and many others.
 
  
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* [http://literarywiki.org/index.php?title=Main_Page Literarywiki.org] - wiki annotations to works by Pynchon, Umberto Eco, and many others.
 
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[[image:logo-LondonReview.gif|left]] '''"Call It Capitalism" by Thomas Jones, for the ''London Review of Books''''', is a thoughtful, knowledgeable and insightful review of ''Bleeding Edge'', linking it to Pynchon's themes from ''The Crying of Lot 49'' to ''Mason & Dixon''. A must read! [http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n17/jone01_.html Read the review...]
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[[image:buckaroosmall.jpg|left|thumb|190px]] '''Pynchon and Comics''' - Sean Rogers: "Ever attuned to the lower frequencies of American culture, the wavelengths where rock and roll and monster movies and The Tube all play out, Pynchon is an author who can ably salt away a few references to comics, too, throughout his works. The guy hips himself to so many things—from 18th century naval battles to Jacobean revenge drama to the intricacies of rhinoplasty—that to happen across nods to underground comics, or moral outlooks articulated by way of classic cartooning like George Herriman’s comic strip Kat, is simply par for a very wide-ranging course." [http://www.walrusmagazine.com/blogs/2009/08/12/pynchon-and-comics/ Read the article...]
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* [[Pynchon's California Trilogy and the CIA|Unreleased Backgrounds: Pynchon's California Trilogy and the CIA]]
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==Image Gallery==
 
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Latest revision as of 05:57, 27 December 2018

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Welcome to the Bleeding Edge Wiki!

To become a contributor/editor, Create an account.



This is the Wiki for Thomas Pynchon's Bleeding Edge. Besides using the Alphabetical Index and the page-by-page annotation, you can also take a look at Bleeding Edge cover analyses, read the reviews, or entertain some theories on the source of the title.


How to Use this Wiki

There are two major ways to use this wiki. The first is the Bleeding Edge Alphabetical Index, used to keep track of the myriad characters, real and imagined, as well as events, arcana, and lots of other stuff. The second is the Spoiler-Free Annotations by Page, which allows the reader to look up and contribute allusions and references while reading the book, in a convenient and spoiler-free manner.

Apart from those, it's up to you.

Bleeding Edge Alpha Guide to Characters, Places & More

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Page by Page Annotations

Chapter 1
pp. 1-7
Chapter 2
pp. 8-19
Chapter 3
pp. 20-29
Chapter 4
pp. 30-40
Chapter 5
pp. 41-52
Chapter 6
pp. 53-67
Chapter 7
pp. 68-79
Chapter 8
pp. 80-86
Chapter 9
pp. 87-95
Chapter 10
pp. 96-111
Chapter 11
pp. 112-120
Chapter 12
pp. 121-133
Chapter 13
pp. 134-144
Chapter 14
pp. 145-159
Chapter 15
pp. 160-171
Chapter 16
pp. 172-184
Chapter 17
pp. 185-197
Chapter 18
pp. 198-210
Chapter 19
pp. 211-218
Chapter 20
pp. 219-229
Chapter 21
pp. 230-238
Chapter 22
pp. 239-246
Chapter 23
pp. 247-255
Chapter 24
pp. 256-264
Chapter 25
pp. 265-273
Chapter 26
pp. 274-287
Chapter 27
pp. 288-300
Chapter 28
pp. 301-313
Chapter 29
pp. 314-326
Chapter 30
pp. 327-337
Chapter 31
pp. 338-346
Chapter 32
pp. 347-353
Chapter 33
pp. 354-364
Chapter 34
pp. 365-382
Chapter 35
pp. 383-394
Chapter 36
pp. 395-407
Chapter 37
pp. 408-422
Chapter 38
pp. 423-438
Chapter 39
pp. 439-447
Chapter 40
pp. 448-462
Chapter 41
pp. 463-477


Featured Articles

Michael Chabon
Photo: The East Bay Monthly
Wow! Writer Michael Chabon delivers a wonderful, insightful review of Bleeding Edge. Chabon's a long-time appreciator of Pynchon and his perspective on the work is unsurpassed, and his 11/07/13 review for The New York Review of Books is illuminating...
"One ought to be accustomed, by now, to Pynchon’s leaving his mysteries unresolved, or at least prepared to give him credit for having done so on purpose. Incompleteness is the inherent vice of paranoid theories of history, the limitation of such theories that Pynchon has always freely acknowledged. Criticism of Pynchon’s “shaggy dog” or sloppy plotting neglects the emphasis that he has always laid on the dual meaning of the word plot. From V. forward, nearly all his novels have been founded on a bedrock of detective fiction and underlayed with science fiction, boy’s adventure, westerns, spy fiction, and other genres that rely, like conspiracy theories, on plotting. His broken plots expose the epistemological brokenness of paranoid systems, which are, after all, nothing but attempts, grander but no less doomed to failure than anyone’s, to make sense of a broken world." Full article »

Illustration: Simon Pemberton
An exellent Harper's Magazine article that combines a review of Bleeding Edge with detailed biographical and genealogical info on Mr. Pynchon, and a Must Read!
"Bleeding Edge, however, offers an indication that Pynchon has finally given up on seeking the soul of the nation his family helped found. For Pynchon — the embattled bard of the counterculture, disabused of all allegiance — the last redoubt has become the family, and the last war to be waged is between our virtual identities and the bonds of blood; a war to keep the Virtual from corrupting the Blood, if not forever, then for time enough to let the lil’ Ziggy and Otis Tarnow-Loefflers of this world live with the merest pretense of freedom (childhood). Pynchon understands that in the future there will be no secrets, no hidden complots — everything will be aired and any second life, whether in the cloud or in the firmament, will be despoiled or denied us. Adult sanity, then, must depend not on the lives we make online, but on the lives we make off it — our kids — on how we love them, and how we raise them, and the virtues and good-taste imperatives we pass on to them from our progenitors." Full article »

Illustration: Mario Wagner
Jonathan Lethem's review of Bleeding Edge for The New York Times is one of the most intelligent and insightful reviews. Like Michael Chabon, Lethem gets it!
"[There is] the sheer vitality and fascination, the plummets into beauty and horror, the unique flashes of galactic epiphany, in Pynchon’s method. Our reward for surrendering expectations that a novel should gather in clarity, rather than disperse into molecules, isn’t anomie but delight. Pynchon himself’s a good companion, full of real affection for his people and places, even as he lampoons them for suffering the postmodern condition of being only partly real. He spoils us with descriptive flights." Read the review...

Image: Slate
Noticing that New York Times critic Michiko Kakutani has panned every Pynchon novel after Mason & Dixon (1997) — the latest target being Bleeding Edge — I became curious as to just who this grumpy critic is. If you're curious too, read "Assessing Michiko Kakutani":

"Kakutani doesn't offer the stylistic flair, the wit, or the insight one gets from Kael and other first-rate critics; for her, the verdict is the only thing. One has the sense of her deciding roughly at Page 2 whether or not a book is worthy; reading the rest of it to gather evidence for her case; spending some quality time with the Thesaurus; and then taking a large blunt hammer and pounding the message home." Read on...

PubWeekly-logo.png
Bleeding Edge Review by David Kipen, for Publishers Weekly, is a well written and insightful appreciation of Pynchon's craft and his new novel! "No one, but no one, rivals Pynchon's range of language, his elasticity of syntax, his signature mix of dirty jokes, dread and shining decency." Read the review...

Pynchon Wiki Help and Contributor Guidelines

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  • When creating a new page, if its information pertains to one (and only one) specific Pynchon novel, please categorize it with the appropriate identifier. For example, a page pertaining to Bleeding Edge, should use the syntax [[Category:BE]].
  • To open a discussion on an individual listing of the Alpha Index, create one using the entry on Peter Tait as an example. Basically, give it a name that identifies the alpha listing (eg [[Name Discussion|DISCUSSION]]) and notice that the visible name will be "DISCUSSION" in full caps, so it stands out a bit.

External Links

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