“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.”

Thomas Pynchon (1938 to Present), Gravity’s Rainbow

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels.

His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics.

For Gravity’s Rainbow, Pynchon won the 1973 US National Book Award for Fiction.

Reference

Pynchon, T. (1995) Gravity’s Rainbow. New Edition. New York: Vintage.