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>benny profane is catholic but jewish, since his mom is jewish
pynchon:
>one of three children of engineer and politician Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Sr. (1907–1995) and Katherine Frances Bennett (1909–1996)
>bennett
Does this mean...? Is this why H Bloom was so crazy over him?

>benny profane is catholic but jewish, since his mom is jewish
pynchon:
>one of three children of engineer and politician Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Sr. (1907–1995) and Katherine Frances Bennett (1909–1996)
>bennett
Does this mean...? Is this why H Bloom was so crazy over him?

#3

>>8623296
It wasn't him, Gordon, it was you. Remember that year in the Nobel you came down to my dressing room and you said, "Kid, this ain't your year. We're going for the price on Dylan." You remember that? "This ain't your year"! My year! I coulda taken Dylan apart! So what happens? He gets the title shot outdoors on the ballpark and what do I get? A one-way ticket to Palooka-ville! You was my brother, Gordon, you shoulda looked out for me a little bit. You shoulda taken care of me just a little bit so I wouldn't have to take them dives for the short-end prizes.

You don't understand. I coulda had class. I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a stoner, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Gordon.

what if he does not exist?

why is he still alive

Post Pynchon's quotes that'd convince me to read him

>muh entropy

This is objectively the list of the best books of all time, in order. Prove me wrong (Non-Fiction excluded)

1. Ulysses - James Joyce
2. The Faerie Queene - Edmund Spenser
3. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
4. Omeros - Derek Walcott
5. The Life and Times of Michael K. - J.M. Coetzee
6. Beloved - Toni Morrison
7. The Trial - Franz Kafka
8. Hamlet - William Shakespeare
9. Trilogy - Samuel Beckett
10. Paradise Lost - John Milton
11. To the Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf
12. Pale Fire - Vladamir Nabakov
13. "A" - Louis Zukofsky
14. Dictee - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
15. Spring and All - William Carlos Williams
16. Prometheus Unbound - Percy Bysshe Shelley
17. The Hour of the Star - Clarice Lispector
18. Crystallography - Christian Bok
19. The Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
20. A Tale for the Time Being - Ruth Ozeki
21. 2666 - Roberto Bolano
22. The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
23. The Wasteland - T.S. Eliot
24. Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
25. Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

>Such was the (as it were) Jacobean etiology of Esther's eventual trip to Cuba; which see.

What the fuck is he truing to say?

What's his best and why?

I've read The Crying of Lot 49 and Inherent Vice, not sure where to go next

How do I write like him?

>78

>He didn't learn how to read on the greeks

How does it feel to be LITERALLY retarded, anon?

I have an old short story that matches this theme. I'll make it pretty and submit. I know you guys can do better than you did w/ #000.

>tfw Why did the chicken cross the road?
>tfw That’s me.
>tfw I am the chicken.
—"When I Died" Jim Borneo 2015

#4

>>6668500
>he doesn't watch cartoons

LAST NIGHT I POKED THE QUEEN OF TRANSYLVANIA