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Pynchon

noun
1.
United States writer of pessimistic novels about life in a technologically advanced society (born in 1937).  Synonym: Thomas Pynchon.






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"Pynchon" Quotes from Famous Books



... thing. It proved that this Dennis Shea was a harmless, amiable fellow, of the class known as shiftless, who had sealed his fate by marrying a dumb wife, who was at that moment ironing in the laundry. Before I left Stafford, I had hired both for five years. We had applied to Judge Pynchon, then the probate judge at Springfield, to change the name of Dennis Shea to Frederic Ingham. We had explained to the Judge, what was the precise truth, that an eccentric gentleman wished to adopt Dennis, under this new name, into his family. It never ...
— The Man Without a Country and Other Tales • Edward E. Hale

... of Boston, has written to me, complaining that I have made his grandfather infamous! It seems there was actually a Pyncheon (or Pynchon, as he spells it) family resident in Salem, and that their representative, at the period of the Revolution, was a certain Judge Pynchon, a Tory and a refugee. This was Mr. ——'s grandfather, and (at least, so he dutifully describes him) the most ...
— A Study Of Hawthorne • George Parsons Lathrop



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