/lit/ - Literature

>>20290292
first thing that came to mind along with the double integral tunnel. I think knowing Calc adds a layer to the story but it's definitely optional

why does Japan get such cool covers

>>15413482
I'm reading it at the moment, just read the octopus part at the start of section 2. I find some chapters to be easy to read, and I enjoy it, thinking I'm finally 'in the right mindset', and then suddenly I'll completely lose what's going on, and start to feel retarded again.

There's a part where Jessica is looking out of the window, while Mexico is sleeping, and it feels beautiful. Then suddenly someone is falling down a toilet while getting raped by Malcolm X and a gang is negros. Is there something intellectual going on, or am I meant to go 'lmao haha this is funny', is me even questioning it 'the point'?

I didn't find V to be this confusing. I'm going to keep going though, I liked the octopus part and could actually follow what's going on. I can tell it was all planned as some kind of test to see what Slothrops connection is to the rockets/women, so at the moment I don't think I'm lost. Fuck, now I'm in the mood to keep reading.

>>15356774
A-hem, your honor

>>14527822
Translated into Japanese in 1993.

>>14498527
これだ

oh baby

>>13298823
Yeah, search up the book in google scholar, and also look at the annotations on the pynch wiki to get some references. Don't worry though, the next Pynch you read will make more sense.

>>13264681
I started using this board around that time, the video came out in 2014 and we used to have a lot more John Green hate threads. All the posts here just repeat but are slightly worse each month.

Currently half way through. The writing is unreal, psychedelic almost. Some of the themes frustrate me but I admit I enjoy the subjects of death and systems and "Them". I don't enjoy his characterization of the European ethos. Not do I like way he chooses to portray the European psyche in relation to non-Europeans. Also, his pedestaling of non-Europeans is eye-rolling in some instances. Often in this book does white guilt take the form of gilded prose.

Much of the novel so far has lacked heart and warmth. It's not a novel's responsibility to ennoble my soul, but Pynchon simply denudes my spirit too often for my liking. The best parts for me have been the romantic narratives, the only places where the reader can find comfort aside from a few hilarious Slothropian escapades.

I thought I would be more interested in the supernatural narratives/characters, but they have been too hazy and shapeless for me to grasp. Hopefully I'll get better at it as the novel goes on. I do enjoy the motif of angels, supposedly a representation of the highest echelons of "Them".

It's not a moving work for me. Maybe I'm a sap for wanting my novels to move me, but this book is for the most part a cold and soulless rocket. I suspect that's the point.

All in all, my experience so far is 7/10. 10/10 for me is Cervantes, Plato, and Dostoevsky.

Get your undergrad in the humanities but get a graduate degree in something more lucrative (hint: something healthcare related)

>>11347654
it's an interesting question. i will admit to not having read it in full, but some parts of this sound pretty good:

>A market need no longer be run by the Invisible Hand, but now could create itself-its own logic, momentum, style, from inside. Putting the control inside was ratifying what de facto had happened-that you had dispensed with God. But you had taken on a greater, and more harmful, illusion. The illusion of control. That A could do B. But that was false. Completely. No one can do. Things only happen, A and B are unreal, are names for parts that ought to be inseparable...

>The silences here are retreats of sound, like the retreat of the surf before a tidal wave: sound draining away, down slopes of acoustic passage, to gather, someplace else, to a great surge of noise.

>Don’t forget the real business of the War is buying and selling. The murdering and the violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world.

D&G were both pretty crazy about kafka, and deleuze has a lot to say about lewis carroll in logic of sense.

i kind of wonder if Roger Rabbit - or animation in general - would also work in terms of describing what it would be like to be a kind of BwO. all intensities, and beholden to rules and laws of physics that are kind of outside of our own, and yet not completely unhinged from reality. not quite sure about this, but it's interesting to think about.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpDaNqSXxp0

le aesthetic japanese cover

Book Covers

I've the notion that the rocket Pirate sees as he's picking bananas in the beginning is the 00000, as he nor the higher-ups ever see it land, and GR ends with an unspecified rocket crashing into the theatre. It's definitely a roundabout theory, but, I mean, it makes as much sense as the other bonkers stuff, and it contributes a little to the circular structure you talk about.

>>10098136
indeed.

>>9997188

i think the japanese cover of gravity's rainbow looks pretty cool

>>9615892
I'm >>9615877 and this was the edition I was talking about