/lit/ - Literature

>>15097838
where do you think you are?

just gonna bump this thread one last time and hope to find it still alive in the morning, have this approximation of what pynchon looks like based on one of his photographs

>>13900001
He aged OK though.

“You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures.”

>>13864031
It's good advice, it's exactly what a first-time reader should hear before getting into it

>>12736830
Find my liar, kill me, and wear my skin to steal my power!

>>12677161
I'm not dead.

>>11478494

Doesn't fit the computer generated aging program's image

Where should I start with Pynchon? Aside from Inherent Vice since I already watched the movie of that. Is there a best book? One most representative of his style?

>>10883309
Does anybody respect Tao Lin's opinions? Btw I'm Thomas Pynchon.

>>10397795
>goddamn did it make me paranoid as fuck

Paranoia is one of the book's themes. Is Pynchon trying to tell us something?

...animated dark comedy slash drama loosely based on Gravity's Rainbow?

My girlfriend's parents are Jewish and she goes home for all the big holidays. This weekend I went with her to see her parents for Rosh Hashana. I've been in New York like... twice, and I'm directionally retarded but they live in what I'm told is the Lower East Side, although I constantly hear New Yorkers accuse other New Yorkers of not knowing where in New York they live so... hey. Grain of salt.

Anyway - Rosh Hashana is sorta boring. I've learned I'm more of a Passover guy anyway. After the holiday is over we've got this day Sunday when we're all lounging, and this is our last day in New York, and like I was emphasizing earlier: I don't know New York. It feels as if I've never been. So I'm like: what the hey. My girlfriend and her mom and reading anyway and her dad is playing online Hearts, so I decided to go for a long walk around.

And guys:

I met Thomas fucking Pynchon.

I'm walking through what appears to still be the Jewborhood and I see this guy at a phone booth of all fucking things - honestly caught my eye namely because he was USING a phone booth and honestly when was the last time you saw anyone do that?

That's when I noticed like: this dude looks EXACTLY like those fucking digital renderings of what Thomas Pynchon looks like now. Grey moustache and everything. Kinda had a gut. I'm like: k those digital things are probably way inaccurate. But then I hear him on the phone and he sounds a lot like he did on The Simpsons, just significantly weaker. Then again, he's not playing a cartoon of himself. Anyway: he's holding a plastic bag. He notices me looking at him and he looks concerned and turns away from me, kinda lifting the hand with the bag to shield his face.

I go over and I tap on his shoulder and desu I'm worried I'm being rude but I'm like: "...Mr. Pynchon?" and he shakes his head. Tries not to make eye contact, is still talking, telling someone something like about food or what temperature an oven should be at (I don't remember too much I wasn't paying attention to that), whatever.

(cont. in thread)

What are some books with goofs, gags, jokes, pranks, and rambunctious behavior? Other than the obvious.

Will he write another one ?

>"I was so fucked up while I was writing it . . . that now I go back over some of those sequences and I can't figure out what I could have meant."

LITERALLY "WHAT DID I MEAN BY THIS"

>>9444822

I'm Thomas Pynchon pic related it's me

>>9325927
Nope

>>9322643
I am Alive

>>9322579
Oh my god the madman actually did it

>>9284952
Still Alive

>>9285552
consider it was one of the first YA books that I read when I was in middle school and genuinely immersed me in reading, writing and drawing. Yeah it lost its magic as I grew up, and it's not exceptional when it comes to technicality but it still made an impact. suck my dick kiddo, and choke on it.

>>9284113
I read that as Pynchon Programming

>>9211874
>tfw Pinecone still alive