In this inaugural episode of Mapping the Zone, our hosts introduce themselves and discuss a few topics to provide some insight into who they are and what they love about the subject of this podcast, Thomas Pynchon. Also discussed is what listeners can expect of the show going forward and which of Pynchon's books they will discuss first.

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It's been nearly a year and a half since we started covering Against the Day and we've finally come to the end of Part 2, Iceland Spar! With us for this wrap-up is friend of the show (and basically the fifth host) Brett Biebel who chats with us about what makes Against the Day such an incredible work of fiction and what we love so much about it (so far).

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The story begins to take more shape, the characters are becoming more dynamic, and the world is making as much sense as it can in this section of the book. Join us as we talk about the importance of Marathe's conversation with Steeply, Americanisms, the haunting backstory of Himself, and so much more.

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Books: William Vollmann’s Seven Dreams series

Video Games: Disco Elysium, Final Fantasy VI

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Time: var. moments of social cavitation

Location: var. locales of New Old Mexico, esp. northern

Subject: Quiselgur, El Chavalito "Frank Traverse"

Concerns:

- rigid and constricted manifolds

- succulent flora

- turnabout

Recommendations:

- Continue observation

- Maintain separation from subject "QR"

- Apply steady pressure along lines of cleavage

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Music: Hermanos Gutierrez El Bueno Y El Malo (2022)

Film/TV: Acid westerns of Alejandro Jodorowsky (El Topo, The Holy Mountain)

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Interview with Michael Silverblatt: David Foster Wallace on Bookworm (1996-2006)YouTube · M.J. NichollsSep 22, 2021

String Theory by David Foster Wallace

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Interview with Michael Silverblatt: David Foster Wallace on Bookworm (1996-2006)YouTube · M.J. NichollsSep 22, 2021

String Theory by David Foster Wallace

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Before setting sail, we check in on the bouncing baby Jesse and the newlyweds who made him. Things aren't going too hot for the young family, the line between reciprocal sacrifice and foolheadedness seeming blurrier every day, and that's without getting into the vigilantism. But now they've parted ways, for the kid's own good, and as Reef eyes his duty to gallivant overseas, the crew shuffles paper in the form of talking politics.

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Books: B. Traven’s Jungle novels:

• Government (1931)
• The Carreta (1931)
• March to the Monteria (a.k.a. March to Caobaland) (1933)
• Trozas (1936)
• The Rebellion of the Hanged (1936; first English pub. 1952)
• General from the Jungle (1940)

Music: Go listen to jass/jazz music

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