i feel like he’s so good at making funny names he would knock it out of the park with a drag queen name.

just came across this formidable term for what i'm pretty sure is my first time (in the "see also" section of "computational complexity of multiplication", since you asked), and audibly emitted a "whoa". i'm somewhat shocked this didn't show up in mason & dixon somehow. it ties in several different ways, and seems the kind of thing that would have come up in research for that book, and it's just such a fantastic word. it's like half the stuff i've studied in my life somehow connect to this concept, and yet it's incredibly esoteric and completely worthless and i've not heard of it in forty-six years.

the References section on this page is great, too.

A quote from my article on Pynchon (second from the bottom) was included in the Russian edition of Against the Day. It reads:

True to the tenets of postmodernism, Pynchon’s prose represents an extraordinary blend of literary worlds. His works are grounded in so-called "low genres" - conspiracy fiction, science fiction, and spy novels - yet they are written with consummate literary artistry. The text abounds in metaphors and philosophical reflections, frequently exploring the very nature of fiction and is generously seasoned with satire and elements of the picaresque novel.

The article itself:

https://disgustingmen.com/blog/tomas-pinchon-samyj-zagadochnyj-pisatel-sovremennosti-gid-dlya-novichka-kotoryj-ne-boitsya-slozhnoj-no-krutoj-literatury/

Gravity Rainbow. No words.