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===''The Crying of Lot 49''===
In April 1964, Pynchon wrote to his agent, Candida Donadio, that he was facing a creative crisis, with four novels in progress, and that "If they come out on paper anything like they are inside my head then it will be the literary event of the millennium."<ref>Gussow 1998</ref> In December 1965, Pynchon politely turned down an offer to teach literature at Bennington College, writing that he had resolved, two or three years earlier, to write three novels at once.<ref>McLemee 2006</ref> Pynchon called the decision “a "a moment of temporary insanity,” " but noted that he was “too "too stubborn to let any of them go, let alone all of them.” P"
Pynchon's second novel, ''The Crying of Lot 49,'' was published a few months later in 1966. Whether it was one of the three or four novels Pynchon had in progress is unknown, but in a 1965 letter to Donadio, Pynchon had written that he was in the middle of writing a book that he called a "potboiler." When the book grew to 155 pages, he called it, ''a short story, but with gland trouble,'' and hoped that Donadio ''can unload it on some poor sucker.'' This would suggest that ''Crying of Lot 49'' was ''not'' one of the four novels Pynchon was writing as of 1964, but no answer is certain.
