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RIP Thomas Pynchon
1937-2020
You will be missed!

>> No.15189307

bane?

>> No.15189309

It honestly could happen. Dude is old and drugged out and lives in New York. Can't imagine he'd survive getting COVID.

>> No.15189578

>>15189301
hell be fine

>> No.15189587

>>15189301
Pynch... easy on the shit eating.

>> No.15189994

Where do I start with Pynchon? I've read that gravitys rainbow and mason & dicson are difficult. English is my second language so whats one of his easier novels in terms of language?

>> No.15190037

>>15189994
don't, read something better

>> No.15190398

>>15189994
The Crying of Lot 49 and maybe V. too

>> No.15190534

>>15189994
do >>15190398 if you want to figure out real quick if you want to find out really quick if you have any interest in progressing, but add Inherent Vice before CoL39 if you want an easier difficulty curve

>> No.15190544

shall Pynch on off in his honor

>> No.15190551
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>>15189301
Bleeding Edge gets better and better, love it

>> No.15190642

>>15189301
I met Thomas Pynchon on YTMND

>> No.15190799

>>15190642
>Mason attempts to converse with a dog, who understands his questions but chooses to ignore him.

>> No.15191108

>>15190799
Dog's name is Pugnax

>> No.15191116

>>15189301
based teeth

>> No.15191220

>Ruggles is an intermodal transfer station serving MBTA rapid transit, bus, and commuter rail services.

>> No.15191414

>>15191108
>Newly molted crabs are very vulnerable because of their soft shells. They are reclusive and hide until the new shell hardens.

>> No.15191422

>>15189301
why does this faggot write so incoherently?
>inb4 "you're too brainlet to understand Pinecone tehehe"

>> No.15191442

>>15189301
How many times is it that he's died now? Must be in the hundreds

>> No.15191485

>>15191422
It was funny

>> No.15192888

bump

>> No.15192948

>>15192888
Checked
For what though? Are there any unanswered questions here?

>> No.15193037

>>15192948
I, for one, am interested to know how he died.

>> No.15193223

>>15193037
Only in anon's head for now

>> No.15193596

>>15193223
Ok then

>> No.15193603

I feel like we'd know for a fact if Pynchon genuinely died if true then RIP. Just finished Gravity's Rainbow not long ago

Part 3>Part 2>Part 4>Part 1

>> No.15193619

>>15193603
Well OP is letting you know

>> No.15193632

>>15193603
what do you mean ‘if’, op said he is dead so he is dead

>> No.15193640

>>15193603
I just finished it last night, and I’d say your rating is completely correct. Parts 1 and 4 are almost equally unenjoyable except part 4 has the passage where Roger Mexico pisses on all those executives and then escapes without getting caught and then the other passage where him and Seaman Bodine go to that dinner and make every one puke. Part one has nothing

>> No.15193649

>>15193640
has that roger and jessica romance tho

>> No.15193663

>>15193640
We're literally living through part one right now, total ludo.

>> No.15193692

>>15193640

Part one has the scene with the adenoid and the banana breakfast. Each part something memorable I really didn't enjoy part 4 all that much outside of the Bulb reflecting on his immortality. Part 2 was really fast paced and had my favourite scene in the whole book which was the squid fighting scene otherwise really fast paced, The Zone was just phenomenal.

>> No.15194470

>>15189994
I liked "Inherent Vice."

>> No.15195063

>>15193640
banana boy was great tho

>> No.15195094

>>15189994
If you like the feeling of being in the middle of an intense conspiracy try Crying of Lot 49 first.

>> No.15195219

>>15189994
I read Gravity's Rainbow first. It took me five months and English is my first language

>> No.15195667

>>15191422
Just read it slowly and multiple times, i know this is a big ask seeing as he writes such fucking long books. But it can be surprising how much you understand on the second pass, it becomes really beautiful

>> No.15195716

>>15191422
you really are a literal brainlet if you don't understand pynchon though

>> No.15195750

He isn't dead you goddamn fag! Stop sucking cocks. He is based forever though

>> No.15196574

>>15189301
>take acid
>ready pynchon
>do big think

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15196737

Pynchon is fine and will never die.

>> No.15196745

>>15189994
the crying of lot 49 is a good place to start

>> No.15196841

>>15196737
Strong Dr. Zaius energy

>> No.15196850

>>15196737
>he never sleeps, the pynch

>> No.15198224

>>15189994
honestly, I felt that CoL49 was harder to read than Mason & Dixon, but that might be that I feel like a better reader now

>> No.15198347

>>15193640
I fucking loved part 4. Reminded me of the headspace i’m in while falling asleep or waking up

>> No.15198352

rest in based (rib)

>> No.15198640

bump of grief

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>Pinecone comes out with his final novel, his civil war magnum opus
>it wins various awards
>it's announced that he will show up in person to receive them
>they wheel in his casket with a bag over his head