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I was just watching it and didn't catch that!

However. Assuming (rather safely) that he pronounces his own name correctly, NYT transcribed it badly. He doesn't stress the second syllable, as in "Lebron". He stresses the two syllables equally. That is, he says it as "pinch on", the way you might say it in "something to pinch on".

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that's how i learned it (equally stressed syllables) from my history of science professor, who (sadistically) assigned gravity's rainbow for the meticulously researched, and fanciful, historical digressions strewn throughout the book. glad to know he wasn't wrong about the pronunciation.

that was my intro to pynchon, being thrown head-first into the deep end. i did actually read the book, but it was... challenging. i appreciate the experience in hindsight, but rued every minute of it at the time.

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