/lit/ - Literature

>>9251064
Reading off an LCD screen

So, over the last few months I've been reading Pynchon.

I started with the Crying of Lot 49 which I thought was pretty entertaining as a joke but I couldn't really say I loved it.

Then I moved onto V which had way more substance to it and with which I connected a lot better. In fact, the confessions of Fausto Majistral may be the best short story I've ever read.

So now I've moved onto the fabled Gravity's Rainbow. I'm almost done with the first section and it hasn't swept me off my feet yet but I can tell I'm in for something.

I also read a few of Pinecone's short stories whenever I take a break.

Anyway, what I'm really saying is, Donald Trump is a Pynchon character isn't he? We're just living in the universe of his last magnum opus before he dies, aren't we? It just seems too perfect.

Even the name is pynchonian. It speaks the character of the person so perfectly, brash, boisterous, full of self parody. Hell there's even the Kek conspiracy that got him elected and the deep mythology of /pol/ to dive into.