/lit/ - Literature

I'm thinking of coming out to my parents as a postmodernist. Any books that can help me in this troubled time?

>>23433256
I worship at the church of pynchon

>>23034284
>the most influential writer of the 20th century
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>>22997291
After reading the master (picrel) reading shit prose like that is rough to get through. Don't think I could get through a whole book of prose that unaesthetic.

If the smartest man and greatest mind of the last 200 years is in humanities, then I'm thinking humanities is a good place to be if you're intelligent.

>Now there grows among all the rooms, replacing the night's old smoke, alcohol and sweat, the fragile, musaceous odor of Breakfast: flowery, permeating, surprising, more than the color of winter sunlight, taking over not so much through any brute pungency or volume as by the high intricacy to the weaving of its molecules, sharing the conjuror's secret by which- though it is not often Death is told so clearly to fuck off- the living genetic chains prove even labyrinthine enough to preserve some human face down ten or twenty generations... so the same assertion-through-structure allows this war morning's banana fragrance to meander, reposses, prevail.

>Somewhere beyond the battening, urged sweep of three-bedroom houses rushing by their thousands across all the dark beige hills, somehow implicit in an arrogance or bite to the smog the more inland somnolence of San Narciso did lack, lurked the sea, the unimaginable Pacific, the one to which all surfers, beach pads, sewage disposal schemes, tourist incursions, sunned homosexuality, chartered fishing are irrelevant, the hole left by the moon’s tearing-free and monument to her exile; you could not hear or even smell this but it was there, something tidal began to reach feelers in past eyes and eardrums, perhaps to arouse fractions of brain current your most gossamer microelectrode is yet too gross for finding.

Written by a guy fluent enough in Spanish to translate Borges while he was living in Mexico. You'll be fine.

Pynchon, I believe, is unconventionally handsome.

How do we prevent leftists from cancelling Pynchon? Things over on X are really heating up.

As a leftist, I find this nascent push to cancel Pynchon quite disconcerting. Anyone else?

>>22694383
Except the greatest writer of all time is a postmodern Leftie?

>>22691090
Gravity's Rainbow.

They = Out of touch Upper Class/Elite/Conservatives
Slothrop/Counterforce = Common Man/Preterite/Progressive Leftists

Well, seeing as the greatest artist of all time is a novelist, I guess I'll have to go with literature.

>>22631709
>No, literature does not get better after Homer, in fact it gets significantly worse.
Ahem. You were saying?

In the time it took you all to read to learn this stuff, plus the time you're spending arguing about it, I wonder how many times you could've read the complete works of Pynchon.

It would have been a better use of your time for all of you.

>>22566458
>Is he the GOAT?
Haha, thanks for the chuckle, OP. I literally laughed out loud. Like audibly. So really, thanks.

You know those pop philosophy books that are always titled "The Philosophy of なになになに" where なになになに == The Matrix, or Winnie the Pooh, etc.?

What would the "The Philosophy of Thomas Pynchon" be about?

Why does Pynchon make christcucks seethe?

>>22196772
Easily. Next question.

>>22155405
Sorry, McCarthy chuds. But Cormac knew what he was doing.

You come at the king, you best not miss.

>>22155318
you come at the king, you best not miss

Thank you to all who joined the Chums of Chance book club for all Pynchon related material. The discord is now full (about 20 members) so we are no longer accepting new chums. We will commence with our first reading in three days. As for your first mission:
>rWtQTrNkM, rgfeZf

Captain Skylark, CoC

Would anyone be down to join a book club devoted only to the works of Pynchon? I was thinking we could call ourselves "The Chums of Chance" like from Against the Day. We could set up a discord and every few months we would have an official read of one his books, and when we're not reading his books officially as "The Chums", any of his reading we do on our own we could share any thoughts we have with each other. Also, I think it would be fun to share like Pynchon memes with each other and stuff. Another idea is if we one of sees something on 4chan talking bad about Pynchon we would tell the others who could go argue with the pseud.

Anyone interested? If so, any other ideas we could do?

>>22077940
>Has anyone else come close?
Not just come close, but surpassed.

Imagine if he'd been a television writer instead working on some HBO prestige series as a showrunner/head writer. You think he would've been any good?