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

1 How to Use this Wiki
2 Shadow Ticket Alpha Guide to Characters, Places & More
3 Page by Page Annotations
4 Featured Articles
5 Pynchon Wiki Help and Contributor Guidelines
6 External Links
7 Image Gallery

How to Use this Wiki

There are two major ways to use this wiki. The first is the Shadow Ticket 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.

Shadow Ticket Alpha Guide to Characters, Places & More

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Page by Page Annotations

Chapter 1 pp. 1-11	Chapter 2 pp. 12-15	Chapter 3 pp. 16-27	Chapter 4 pp. 28-38	Chapter 5 pp. 39-42
Chapter 6 pp. 43-45	Chapter 7 pp. 46-50	Chapter 8 pp. 51-57	Chapter 9 pp. 58-61	Chapter 10 pp. 62-69
Chapter 11 pp. 70-75	Chapter 12 pp. 76-81	Chapter 13 pp. 82-91	Chapter 14 pp. 92-101	Chapter 15 pp. 102-114
Chapter 16 pp. 115-122	Chapter 17 pp. 123-125	Chapter 18 pp. 126-131	Chapter 19 pp. 132-141	Chapter 20 pp. 142-153
Chapter 21 pp. 154-160	Chapter 22 pp. 161-172	Chapter 23 pp. 173-178	Chapter 24 pp. 179-187	Chapter 25 pp. 188-195
Chapter 26 pp. 196-206	Chapter 27 pp. 207-209	Chapter 28 pp. 210-227	Chapter 29 pp. 228-232	Chapter 30 pp. 233-238
Chapter 31 pp. 239-243	Chapter 32 pp. 244-250	Chapter 33 pp. 251-256	Chapter 34 pp. 257-263	Chapter 35 pp. 264-269
Chapter 36 pp. 270-277	Chapter 37 pp. 278-284	Chapter 38 pp. 285-289	Chapter 39 pp. 290-293

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Illustration: New York Times

This overview of Pynchon's oeuvre by A.O. Scott for The New York Review of Books is quite good...
"But hear me out: Those plots encompass crime capers, costume dramas, spy thrillers and combat epics. Pynchon’s pages teem with spies, gumshoes, femmes fatales and popeyed sailor men. If his books don’t exactly follow genre formulas, they nonetheless reliably dispense genre gratification. His dizzying inventions are built on a sturdy, sometimes half-invisible scaffolding of popular fiction.

There’s more to it than that, of course. Graduate students revere him for a reason. But let’s roll with the conceit and proceed, in Pynchonesque fashion, to feed his defiantly anti-algorithmic work through a handmade mock algorithm. If you want an anarchist Dan Brown, a horny Robert Ludlum, a countercultural David Baldacci, Pynchon might be your man. Maybe that’s a stretch, and maybe (definitely) none of these books will stay in these conceptual boxes. But here are eight purposely whimsical recommendation prompts, gateways to a fictional universe that finally defies all categorization." Full article »

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