/lit/ - Literature

Man life sure is chaotic huh? Feeling like everything is meaningless? Well Nietzsche said the solution would be to define our own values and since you don't want to think about it, I'll tell you mine. To start, I get them by looking at all kinds of parables and folk tales across every (mostly just European) culture and then I cherry pick the morals that reinforce my personal biases. After this I assert that this set of values constitutes a universal™ system of morality which is actually just a continuation of stock judeo-christian morality. Sometimes I completely misunderstand the nature of postmodernism and blame it for causing the feelings of meaninglessness that drove you to me. Sometimes, I bring up anecdotal and/or exaggerated stories about "progressives gone wild" to stir up your insecurities about the changing world.

But most of all, I cloak all of this in pseudointellectual jargon that protects me from having to engage with criticism in any meaningful way. It sure is great to be getting so many NEETbucks.

Get ready for a discussion, /lit/!

Slothrop, as noted, at least as early as the Anubis, has begun to thin, to scatter. Personal density is directly proportional to the temporal bandwith. "Temporal Bandwith" is the width of your present, your now. It is the familiar "Δt" considered as a dependent variable. The more you dwell in the past and future, the thicker your bandwith, the more solid your persona. But the narrower your sense of Now, the more tenuous you are. It may get to where you're having trouble remembering what you were doing five minutes ago, or even - as Slothrop now - what you're doing here, at the base of this colossal curved embankment...
"Uh," he turns to Narrisch, "what are we..."
"What are we what?
"What?"
"You said 'what are we...' and stopped."
"Oh. Gee, that was a funny thing to say."

Man, this book is weird.

Post in this thread if you're reading Gravity's Rainbow.

>Current Page
505
>when you started
Mid January.
>how many pages you read of it per day
15-20
>how you like it so far.
It's pretty interesting but I'm still waiting for it all to come together.
>what you plan to read next.
JR by William Gaddis

I just came from anal while watching blacked.

AMA

Where can I get this cover?

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