Quotes from Thomas Pynchon's books, and about them
The Crying of Lot 49 on The Rise of the Dutch Republic: “From obscure philatelic journals furnished her by Genghis Cohen, an ambiguous footnote in Motley's Rise of the Dutch Republic, an 80-year-old pamphlet on the roots of modern anarchism...”
The Crying of Lot 49 on The Egyptian Book of the Dead: “Some immediacy was there again, some promise of hierophany: printed circuit, gently curving streets, private access to the water, Book of the Dead.”