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19818776 No.19818776 [Reply] [Original]

DUDE WHAT IF LIKE I LEFT THE PLOTS UNRESOLVED LMAO

you know what would be even better writing? actually writing a satisfying ending

>> No.19818782

>>19818776
OP is a faggot.

>> No.19818793

do you guys think pynchon has ever posted on /lit/?
even one time?
he definitely knows about us at least, r-r-right??

>> No.19818897

>>19818776
Correct. Unsatisfying endings are the most common weakness of modern "serious" authors, because they're so obsessed with not following the "old-fashioned" story templates. Guess what, the old-fashioned story templates are the ones that yield a satisfying ending.

William Gass is a good example.

>> No.19818903

Pynchon’s my favorite writer for sure, because my favorite thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are filled to the brim with this. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book and POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! And then you think “hmmm what’s he gonna do next, this trickster” and you pick the book back up and BZZZZ you get a shock and “hahahaha” you've been pranked again by the old Pynchmeister, that card. “Did that Pynch?” he sez, laughing “yukyukyukyuk”. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up his mouth and displays em for you – left, right, center – “You like these? Do I look handsome?” Pulls out a mirror. “Ah!” Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and reappears hauling a huge golden gong

>> No.19818929

>>19818903
This, except that the try-hard systematic gags and jokes are netiher fun nor funny to me, and that perfectly nails why I dislike Pynchon and other so-called 'post-modern' novels.

If I want this but good, I go to Sterne and Rabelais.

>> No.19818978

>>19818903
this is probably the best thing /lit/ has ever written

>> No.19818989

>>19818903
Yo dude that's awesome. You ever browse reddit? It's an awesome site it was practically built for patrician pynchon fans such as yourself.

>> No.19819052

>>19818776
>muh cause and effect
filtered

>> No.19819060

>>19818903
I'm convinced: I'm never reading Pynchon.

>> No.19819122

>>19818903
kek

>> No.19819289

>>19818903
CRASH! Mom made pancakes.

>> No.19819306
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19819306

>>19818776
>MOMMY SPOONFEED ME CLOSURE

>> No.19819399

>>19818903
Pynchon is watching language drown in its own excrement. Repent, Tom.

>> No.19819422

>>19818793
>he doesn't know

>> No.19819770

>>19818776
Actually his next book: "The crying of Gravity's Day Against the bleeding edge of the Mason-Dixon Line, featuring a special appearance by one I.Vice" ties all the old plots together. V. and Vineland won't show up as they already have pretty clear endings.

>> No.19819995

>>19818776
Is that the game of thrones guy?