/lit/ - Literature

>>10754339
You should only read Gravity's Rainbow if you have an IQ above 130. Otherwise just turn back now.

>>10272697
I come to /lit/ to observe the pretentious cunts who are alienated from the real world prance about as if proving intelligence to an anon matters. Also to occasionally have enlightening discussions.

>>8042280
>>8042364
Answer my question, you whore.

>>7128042
>Live or have lived in a global city.

New York, Boston

>Have been to a used bookstore in the last month.

Several, actually.

>Have done Cocaine and/or psychedelics.

Shrooms, peyote.

>Went to an Ivy, MIT, Stanford, Oxbridge, or the #1 university in whatever other country you might be from.

Brown

>Played an intercollegiate sport in college.

Rowing

>Have published original work in any field (literature, scientific papers, etc.)

Scientific papers and short stories.

>Joined a fraternity or secret society in college.

Secret society

>Currently have a harem of FWBs or, better yet, actual multiple wives and gfs (exceptions allowed if you're too engrossed in your work at the moment for female nonsense).

I try to keep 3 on the hook at all times.

>Earn at least $70k a year or can live an equivalent lifestyle on family money.

Six figure nigga

>Can play at least one musical instrument or sing properly.

I'm a breddy gud cellist and pianist.

>Have read novels in at least three languages.

English, French, Spanish.

>>7098543
I liked Infinite Jest but there's plenty of emotional impact to Pynchon. Just because he doesn't write characters as well as Wallace doesn't mean there's nothing going on at the emotional level and it certainly doesn't mean he wasn't earnest.

Gravity's Rainbow is a book of furious anger at the military-industrial complex with a lot of esotericism alongside that concern. If you don't get that then you just aren't ready to approach GR effectively or honestly. I suspect Wallace wasn't ready to approach it honestly because he'd fixated on Pynchon as the father he would have to kill to be a real man.

>>7095354
>scientists are a unified body and all work together on some vaguely defined "progress"
In reality they're mostly sperglords who spend ungodly amounts of time on their interests, which happen to be useful. There is nothing keeping a Christposting chemist from making breakthroughs in chemistry, and condemning him for an irrelevant belief only serves to bother perfectly productive scientists who happen to believe in something that is almost entirely irrelevant to their fields.

This is like saying all black people should support illegal immigration because "Progress!"

I'm a pretty big fedora myself, but damn this is just counterproductive for no reason.

>>7080484
PROTESTANTS ON SUICIDE WATCH