the part in Sorry, Baby where agnes says "i don't want him to be arrested. i want him to stop being someone who does that. and if he went to jail, he'd just be a person who does that, who's also in jail."
For the record, Jacob Elordi really was out there talking about Pynchon. Gravity’s Rainbow is a book he’s been meaning to read, and Vineland is one he had just read.