"pynchon is connected to the following things:

erection
the weather

gravity
Thomas Pynchon wrote Gravity's Rainbow

entropy
His second book, 'The Crying of Lot 49' is a small, gemlike work about the terror which entropy, in energy and information, holds in our lives.

salinger
Like J.D. Salinger, Pynchon shuns photographers, the media, and the public, living and working in secrecy.

roxbury, massachusetts
the town was founded by an ancestor or Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, jr."

from:
DIRK: the fundamental interconnectedness of all things