Mapping the Zone: A Thomas Pynchon discussion podcast
Hosted by Mapping the Zone podcast hosts · Thomas Pynchon books discussed here!
4.8from 132 ratings
- 134
- Episodes
- 22
- Transcribed
- 132
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2023
- First episode
About Mapping the Zone: A Thomas Pynchon discussion podcast
Each episode, we take a deep-dive into the book we are focusing on—we explore the references, characters, plot, and everything in between from a non-scholarly point of view. We are just four fans who love these books and can talk about them endlessly.
- Publisher
- Thomas Pynchon books discussed here!
- Category
- arts
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- Yes
- First episode
- 9 Mar 2023
- Latest episode
- 9 Oct 2026
Latest episodes
22 of 134 episodes have a transcript.
9 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT
Against the Day: Ch. 43-44
25 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Against the Day: Ch. 42
11 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Against the Day: Ch. 43-44
Published 9 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] It receives impressions produced on the terrestrial plane and it retains a record of, of all that happens. So here's a longer quote from Eliphas Levi. There exists in nature a force infinitely exceeding that of steam, a force that would enable the man capable of seizing it and directing it to change the face of the world. The ancients knew this force. It consists in a universal agent whose supreme law is equilibrium and whose direction is directly related to the great arcanum of transcendental magic. Through the use of this agent, one can change the very order of seasons, produce the phenomenon of day in the middle of the night, enter instantaneously into contacts with the farthest ends of the earth, see events on the other side of the world, as Apollonius of Tyana did hear or attack at a distance, and confer one's speech universal success and influence. […]
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