Definition of beast mode is ending your short story about failures and complications of communication with “‘not another word’”. No one did it like him. Where are my Oblivion-heads?
There’s a very real possibility that Thomas Pynchon is dead, and has been for years, and he just had some books that he was sitting on that they’re slowly working through. I mean, how would we know otherwise? Public appearances?
With the emergence of generative software like Suno to generate music for texts and lyrics, I’ve become taken with songwriting. Ideas for stories and essays that have never seen the light of day have now found expression. Because I tend to obsess over every word, the more limited word count makes...