Talk:Chapter 1
Some guidelines to improve pages
This page and subsequent ones could be improved in a couple of ways:
- More exhaustive sources: for instance, in the first entry, the sentence "Also, bene [Latin] = "well-intentioned", observes Molly Hite." Who's Molly White? Where did she observed it?
Molly Hite was an associate professor at Cornell. She wrote a critical analysis of Pynchon's first three books titled -Ideas of Order in the Novels of Thomas Pynchon-, copyright 1983. Assume it comes from that book. I will try to find a link or the exact quote from the book. Jkvannort (talk) 15:59, 6 March 2024 (PST)
I added the definition of schlemiel/schlemihl, which alludes to a 19th century novel called Peter Schlemihl, who sells his shadow to the Devil.
- Update of dead links and cross-referencing of information: for instance, second entry, "Pynchon worked on aspects of NORAD [later acronym] when he was at Boeing." without source.
- Readibility: style uniformity when quoting texts, single words and links, for instance.
