/lit/ - Literature

>>23327963
The NYRB Recognitions cover is the first edition cover reworked to reflect the NYRB title block style.

>So he lay alone one evening, perspiring in spite of the cold, almost asleep to be wakened suddenly by the hand of his wife, on his shoulder as she used to wake him. He struggled up from the alcoved bed, across the room to the window where a cold light silently echoed passage. There was the moon, reaching a still arm behind him, to the bed where he had lain. He stood there unsteady in the cold, mumbling syllables which almost resolved into her name, as though he could recall, and summon back, a time before death entered the world, before accident, before magic, and before magic despaired, to become religion.

I'm going to a remote location in a couple of days. No internet at all.

I want to read this but without I fear that without some annotations or online help I'll get stuck.

Is there much required reading?

I read every word but I probably understood <60% of it. I know I will have to do a second, closer read, but until then...
Have I read this book?

>18
>auckland uni, english & philosophy
>pic related

Why didn't you tell me this was so funny.

The king

Ayyyyo hold up. What just happened in the barn? Did the retard girl fuck the bull ? Why does Gaddis get so vague whenever shit is actually going down.

>>15150285
Enjoyed all three.
Infinite Jest is definitely the weakest though. Should be replaced by this bad boy.

Not even halway through this and it has already fucked me up like no book before.(also maybe due to the quarantine).How the fuck am I supposed to define myself (traits of character,social status,material acquisitions?) in this age and how do I know if I am just a counterfeit? Also does it even matter being an original? Maybe I'm missing the point here. If someone could help me here it would be much appreciated.

Yes, well done Pynchon. Well done.

HOWEVER

Holy.


Shit.