/lit/ - Literature

>>22728593
>not understanding how 4cringe works
You're the &amp guy? Yikes my guy. I'm going to sic Destiny and worse on you, just you wait faggot.

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>>22362274
>It was also far less surreal.
disagree bigtime

>>22315767
ya

>>20710698
Sorry to burst your bubble lol but it doesn't. And compared to Ulysses? It's the opposite pole. Doesn't mean GR is bad, but it's a spaghetti monster of loose ends. It's exactly like calling Naked Lunch a cohesive whole. Just isn't.

Cf Molly's section at the end of Ulysses: it runs through the entire novel adding additional information and depth to everything you've just read. Not indirectly, but directly.

GR doesn't do this. For all its references—which come together gorgeously on a local level—don't reach out past where they occur. The only thing that really does this in an interesting way is Crouchfield and Whappo being a hallucinatory precursor of Weissmann and Nguarorerue. And maybe Operation Black Wing but eh. Maybe Slothrop's map being bullshit too, that's an interesting twist. The rest is local. Knowing that "enzian" is a color, a missile, the key ingredient to Moxie, a reference to a Rilke poem, well, that's great but it's not interlinked in the novel.

Why?

>>20574955
Who is Whappo with in the sodium pentothal vision? Who is Enzian with in the novel?

Anyway other cool stuff: Enzian is the name of a flower whose root it used to make the flavoring for Moxie soda. And Enzian was also a surface-to-air missile used in the war, picrel.