/lit/ - Literature

>>15475078
I'm reading V. right now, so I've been saving bits and pieces of it, prose that has caught my eye.

>There is no way to describe the way she walked except as a kind of brave sensual trudging: as if she were nose-deep in snowdrifts, and yet on route to meet a lover.

>As spread thighs are to the libertine, flights of migratory birds to the ornithologist, the working part of his tool bit to the production machinist, so was the letter V to young Stencil. He would dream perhaps once a week that it had all been a dream, and that now he'd awakened to discover the pursuit of V. was merely a scholarly quest after all, an adventure of the mind, in the tradition of The Golden Bough or The White Goddess.

>Together on the stoop they hammered together a myth. Because it wasn't born from fear of thunder, dreams, astonishment at how the crops kept dying after harvest and coming up again every spring, or anything else very permanent, only a temporary interest, a spur-of-the-moment tumescence, it was a myth rickety and transient as the bandstands and the sausage pepper of mulberry street.

>Sunlight, bouncing off the Arno, off the fronts of shops, fractured into spectra by the falling rain, seemed to tangle or lodge in his blond hair, eyebrows, mustache, turning that face to a mask of inaccessible ecstasy: contradicting the sorrowing and weary eyeholes.

There is also a hilarious tangent in the plot where Benny Profane takes up a job as a gator exterminator in the New York sewer system.

>>12902557
based and bananapilled

>>12771533
>Tired pepe

>>12726998
Fpbp

>>12720493
>bleeding edge

>>12647805
holy schlep

>>12545505
I just saged your thread twice kid

he not bookish but he sure cute

Who is the most patrician publisher. Is it Scribners? Penguin? FSG? Knopf? Trying to decide who will publish my magnum opus.

Gravity's Rainbow

>>11867928
Cute!

>>11806837
Take a little bit of mushrooms and read Gravity's Rainbow

>>11503014
I mean, hitler himself joked about it

Let me just say that pynchon better watch his back

>>11469610
>ruggles

>>9511107
You wouldn't understand it anyway.

>>32180
I think she's made of sterner stuff than Katie or Carli.

>>9232850
Someone in the audience just shouted "Pepe!"

There was a young fellow named Pope,
Who plugged into an *os*-cillo-*scope*.
The cyclical trace
Of their carnal embrace
Had a damn nearly infinite slope.

>>9175075
Heh, nothing personnel, (Kenosha) kid.

>>9142516

hyuck

>>9131521
>>9131525
hyuck

>>9116637
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