Huh. I always heard it as "Poor Professor Pension," rather than Pynchon, but Pynchon does make sense, from what I gather in the comments here. For me, "Pension" carried with it a tone of poverty, aimlessness, a disconnect from society (if you're on a pension you no longer need to contribute to society to get paid), and the end of one's life/closeness of death, which I thought fit in well with the theme of the song.
Huh. I always heard it as "Poor Professor Pension," rather than Pynchon, but Pynchon does make sense, from what I gather in the comments here. For me, "Pension" carried with it a tone of poverty, aimlessness, a disconnect from society (if you're on a pension you no longer need to contribute to society to get paid), and the end of one's life/closeness of death, which I thought fit in well with the theme of the song.
I haven't read Pynchon.