/lit/ - Literature

>>21724328
>take the SAT twice
>add 200 points to my score by copying the math section of the kid sitting next to me
>mfw I effortlessly raise my own IQ with mere vision

>>21633058
>Self inputted

>US government literally and unironically sterilizes citizens only 100 years ago
>I'm a schizo for not trusting them
>I'm a schizo for wanting to retain control over what is put into my body
>I'm a schizo for having the political stances of a liberal from the year 2000

https://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page

>>18880341
Be really funny and have everybody like me. Unfortunately I'm terrified of doing anything towards this goal and just post jokes in random threads.
>>18880698
>There's an incredibly attractive and potentially crazy barista I know who has confided in me that she used to cut herself
Yeah I know this potentially crazy guy that thinks aliens have chipped his brain and made him gay. Bro she's definitely shown her potential for craziness already.

What are the funniest books? I bought Norm MacDonald's book and I like it so far. I want to learn how to write comedy because I don't see any of my friends anymore and want to make people laugh again.

>>18740177
>the truth can be discerned from what Byzantine emperors decide should be burned

>>18118553
>he thinks leftist governments want his "skills"
You have a bachelor's in political science and history.

>just figured out that Slothrop is a reference to John Lothropp
>Rev. John Lothropp (1584–1653) — sometimes spelled Lothrop or Lathrop — was an English Anglican clergyman, who became a Congregationalist minister and emigrant to New England. He was among the first settlers of Barnstable, Massachusetts. Perhaps Lothropp's principal claim to fame is that he was a strong proponent of the idea of the Separation of Church and State (also called "Freedom of Religion"). This idea was considered heretical in England during his time, but eventually became the mainstream view of people in the United States of America, because of the efforts of John Lothropp and others. Lothropp left an indelible mark on the culture of New England, and through that, upon the rest of the country. He has had many notable descendants, including at least six US presidents, as well as many other prominent Governors, government leaders, leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and business people.
>probably knew William Pynchon
>mfw pynched again

>>18024509
>Plus he is constantly trying to present scat and pedophilia as normal, human condition stuff. It makes me cringe.
How did you miss Pynchon's condemnation of these things? He pretty explicitly ties them to modernistic ideas of progress, and is very against things that only relate to death. Esther's nose job, V2 rockets, eating shit, becoming a robot, are all things he seems to not like.

>>17929665
How about a former Boeing Technical Writer that's heavily into the occult, techno-liberalism, and vast conspiracies?

>not so fast, modernists!
>*yanks rug from under Russell's feet*
>*Russell stumbles face first into the fluffiest banana cream pie ever seen*

The modernist movement and it's scientification of all American culture has been a disaster for me. After seeing countless posts all across the internet about how great science is -- usually made by ugly faced potato-sack-body bug people -- my appreciation for the field has diminished greatly. I actually study ecology so it's not like I hate the core concept. The culture that stems from science is sickening. Like I'm supposed to give a shit that some faggots in Europe made a big metal loop and now want an even bigger loop. Like I'm supposed to care about any new advance in technological development. People got on fine hundreds of years ago, who gives a shit if they cure cancer? Increasingly, it becomes impossible to exist between Luddite and all in. I can't even complete my degree (where all the classes traditionally take place outdoors!) without using the internet for hours, glued to my desk pretending like I'm watching a lecture. It's not even possible to exist without a phone because it's required to log into university systems.

And the whole practice feels like it's just making people duller, and the most interesting example of this is the field of psychology. The following relates to Harlow's monkey experiments and their necessity to changing the prevailing "scientific" opinion

>It was the debate concerning the reasons behind the demonstrated need for maternal care that Harlow addressed in his studies with surrogates. Physical contact with infants was considered harmful to their development, and this view led to sterile, contact-less nurseries across the country. Bowlby disagreed, claiming that the mother provides much more than food to the infant, including a unique bond that positively influences the child's development and mental health.

>The importance of these findings is that they contradicted both the traditional pedagogic advice of limiting or avoiding bodily contact in an attempt to avoid spoiling children, and the insistence of the predominant behaviorist school of psychology that emotions were negligible. Feeding was thought to be the most important factor in the formation of a mother–child bond. Harlow concluded, however, that nursing strengthened the mother–child bond because of the intimate body contact that it provided. He described his experiments as a study of love. He also believed that contact comfort could be provided by either mother or father. Though widely accepted now, this idea was revolutionary at the time in provoking thoughts and values concerning the studies of love.

Now how on Earth did anyone ever fall for that egg head shit? When did somebody think that contact deprivation would be good for a social animal that spends the first few years of life unable to walk and getting food from it's mother's breast?

>>16376825
>All the cool kids in my Highschool smoked like twice a year.
They just didn't want to give any to a fag like you

>>16220676
>he did the Kenosha Kid

Can I cure my narcissistic tendencies with psychedelics? Reading just made it worse and I'd like to be not so self-oriented for a change, people are starting to notice.

>>14124849
Could it be that you've been...pynched?

>tfw been reading Pynchon and postmodernist doorstoppers all the way up to Uni because /lit/ meme
>tfw i get into argument with professor over Pynch post-German period
>bring up the usual arguments "schizo,druggy crackhead,scribblings"
>pulls out Vineland and another late tier Pynch scribble
>proceeds to show me prose equivalent to my least favorite writer (John Green; he knows this)
>mfw I fell for a lit meme and got btfo'ed in front of everyone sounding like an ignorant basedboy

>>12532863
>Houston McCoy

I'm Episcopalian
What's some literature for me. btw fuck catholicism nice paedophile cover ups

>>11585481
>>/lit/ actually discusses great books and goes deep into literary arguments, even offering good recs, charts and content, despite the memes

realistically how much money does he have

how much did he make from gravity's rainbow?

What the fuck was his problem?

>>8358465
tfw when u realize Pynchon himself wrote/copied every single one of these on every Pynchon thread