Template:RQ:Pynchon Crying Lot

1966, Thomas Pynchon, The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN:

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Usage

This template may be used on Wiktionary entry pages to quote Thomas Pynchon's work The Crying of Lot 49, published by Bantam Books in 1976 (note: this is not the first edition) in New York. The online version of this work is available at the Internet Archive:

• The Crying of Lot 49.

Parameters

The template takes the following parameters:

• |1= or |chapter= - the number of the chapter quoted from.
• |2= or |page=; or |pages= - the page number(s) quoted from.

Examples

• Wikitext:
  • {{RQ:Pynchon Crying Lot|chapter=4|page=58|passage=If it was really Pierce's attempt to leave an organized something behind after his own annihilation, then it was part of her duty, wasn't it, to bestow life on what had persisted, to try to be what Driblette was, the dark machine in the centre of the planetarium, to bring the estate into pulsing '''stelliferous''' Meaning, all in a soaring dome around her?}}
• Result:
  • 1966, Thomas Pynchon, chapter 4, in The Crying of Lot 49, New York: Bantam Books, published 1976, →ISBN, page 58:

    If it was really Pierce's attempt to leave an organized something behind after his own annihilation, then it was part of her duty, wasn't it, to bestow life on what had persisted, to try to be what Driblette was, the dark machine in the centre of the planetarium, to bring the estate into pulsing stelliferous Meaning, all in a soaring dome around her?