/lit/ - Literature

>>20664132
i believe it

>>20600669

>>20596241
Pynchon is a most exquisite writer, with excellent form and execution. What I enjoy most littered throughout his oeuvre are the flubs, wiles, jests and general horseploay. His literary masterpieces are full to the brim of these things. Every novel analogous to those Marxian (Grouch, mind) boxes which you open and, surprise, surprise! You've now received a black eye from a spring loaded boxing glove and you fall back doubled over not with pain but with laughter. Wow, such genius. Every bit as provocative as modern American celebrities. You get to stroking your beard and you think what could he possibly do next, this most subtle of comedians, Thomas Pynchon. So you get back to reading and it is as though you receive an electric shock of a nonlethal but otherwise frightening sort and, by Jove, you've been had again by that old Master of pinching, Pynchon, the pincher of readers.

"Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing like Disney's most memorable canine. Behold as he dons a set of joke glasses twitching the moustache left and right, bouncing the eyebrows, "I really do get ahead of myself." Out with the mirror like stately plump Buck Mulligan. "Mmm, yes!" stroking his aged lips sensually. And wouldn't you know it? You're on rear end again, in absolutely religious tears, a caustic Gnostic experience, laughing so hard you begin to wheeze, as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.

What is your "book that got you into books"?

Like the book that made you see how amazing literature could be and kickstarted your love of the whole thing.

>>15339961
>I've never seen her mentioned here, so she can't be that good.

Yes, I agree anon. The wise philosophers of boards dot 4channel dot org slash lit slash are truly the arbiters of what is and isn't quality writing, especially when it comes to fuckin' broads with their bloody gashes and bouncy bosoms. Am I right or am I right, fellas? Up top.

No one tell him I posted this

>>12353241
>All it takes is one Camera and your life is ruined.
Our culture doesn't shame sexuality anymore dumb dumb.

They shame sexism, racism, ableism, chauvinism and body-shaming

You're more likely to have your "life ruined" by saying the N word sarcastically on Twitter in 2009 than you are to have your life ruined by people finding out you had good consensual adult sex in a group setting.

Do you guys think we going to get a lot of post-hummus stuff from Pynchon or will he have it all burned?

News could break any day

>>10654917
>bomb throwing anarchist

pynch is NOT Webb Traverse
Pynch is Kitt Traverse
With a little bit of Seaman Bodine, Doc Sportello, and Tyrone Slothrop thrown in.

He's a bourgeoise liberal born too late for WWII and too early for accelerationism. Of course he's tepid when he writes a contemporary piece. My grandfather was born at a similar time and is just like him. A tepid-sweater wearing neoliberal hiding a hard on.

All of you joke but I actually knew him.

Yes, he was probably the most well read person I have ever met.

>actually believing what Pynchon says in the Slow Learner introduction

lmao

PYNCHED

>>10350777
>777
>Gematria
>A Kabbalistic method of interpreting the Hebrew scriptures by computing the numerical value of words, based on those of their constituent letters.

At last I truly see

>>10319502
welcom to the water kid??

>>10175033
Until the advent of certain technologies, atomic physics were noumenal, though their existence could be intuited (See Democrates) if not expounded upon. Noumenal designates something as being beyond the grasp of our senses, not of our TOOLS

>>10178365
The media poisons us until thinking we can all be chads, and when it doesn't work out that way.

Life isn't like that. Marry an ugly girl with a good soul who's loyal to her family, take good care of yourself, and a hone some kind of hobby when you're not working.

If you're having trouble meeting women, go to church. It's either church, or a bar. I'm an Atheist, and I knew if I hadn't found my wife I would have searched a church for one.

>>10165764
It requires a certain sort of courage and fortitude to stand in front of a crowd and carry out a dignified recital of your own work, but the autists here hate it because a lot of leftists and minorities do slam poetry

>>10140075
God bless you sir
write Gravity's Rainbow 2 in which Slothrop's distillated consciousness remanifests in the 80s as Donald Vibe, and follow Vibe's jourey to become president in 2015. Then climax the book when /ourrocketman/ goes up against NK's rocket man

>>10092204
Who says Tom doesn't browse /lit/ my boy?

>>10085016
wrong, Pynchon has - notoriously - always been a chad (not even memeing)

>>10074965
Pynchon is a most exquisite writer, with excellent form and execution. What I enjoy most littered throughout his oeuvre are the flubs, wiles, jests and general horseploay. His literary masterpieces are full to the brim of these things. Every novel analogous to those Marxian (Grouch, mind) boxes which you open and, surprise, surprise! You've now received a black eye from a spring loaded boxing glove and you fall back doubled over not with pain but with laughter. Wow, such genius. Every bit as provocative as modern American celebrities. You get to stroking your beard and you think what could he possibly do next, this most subtle of comedians, Thomas Pynchon. So you get back to reading and it is as though you receive an electric shock of a nonlethal but otherwise frightening sort and, by Jove, you've been had again by that old Master of pinching, Pynchon, the pincher of readers.

"Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing like Disney's most memorable canine. Behold as he dons a set of joke glasses twitching the moustache left and right, bouncing the eyebrows, "I really do get ahead of myself." Out with the mirror like stately plump Buck Mulligan. "Mmm, yes!" stroking his aged lips sensually. And wouldn't you know it? You're on rear end again, in absolutely religious tears, a caustic Gnostic experience, laughing so hard you begin to wheeze, as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.

“The United States has great strength and patience, but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies, we will have no choice but to totally destroy North Korea. Rocket man is on a suicide mission for himself and for his regime.”

Why's Trump got a hard-on for Slothrop?

>>9491091
>not knowing the lore
pynchon was a ladies man who played guitar for the girls

>entropy

What did he mean by this?

thomas pynchon