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Pynchon +‎ -esque

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Pynchonesque (comparative more Pynchonesque, superlative most Pynchonesque)

  1. Of, pertaining to, or in the style of Thomas Pynchon
    • 1993 Apr, Cindi Katz, “Reflections While Reading City of Quartz By Mike Davis”, in Antipode, volume 25, number 2, page 159:
      From the moment I opened the book I felt I had entered a Pynchonesque world.
  2. Densely convoluted, verbose and full of allusion

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