/lit/ - Literature

though you may be thrown over
by Tabby or Rover
you'll never go wrong with a pig, a pig,
you'll never go wrong with a pig!

>>1962541
Skippy, you little fool, you are off on another of your senseless and retrograde journeys. Come back, here, to the points. Here is where the paths divided. See the man back there. He is wearing a white hood. His shoes are brown. He has a nice smile, but nobody sees it. Nobody sees it because his face is always in the dark. But he is a nice man. He is the pointsman. He is called that because he throws the lever that changes the points. And we go to Happyville, instead of to Pain City. Or “Der Leid-Stadt,” that’s what the Germans call it. There is a mean poem about the Leid-Stadt, by a German man named Mr. Rilke. But we will not read it, because we are going to Happyville. The pointsman has made sure we’ll go there. He hardly has to work at all. The lever is very smooth, and easy to push. Even you could push it, Skippy. If you knew where it was. But look what a lot of work he has done, with just one little push. He has sent us all the way to Happyville, instead of to Pain City. That is because he knows just where the points and the lever are. He is the only kind of man who puts in very little work and makes big things happen, all over the world.
- Pynchon, GR

this.

it has songs about rockets and pigs and paranoia!

and suicide!

you have to read this. for all the Guy-in-a-Pig-costume jokes!

you'll love the pig cosplay and when they mistake Major Marvy for Slothrop and drag him off and castrate him. LOL.

Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon.
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this one is a quick, light read. you might finish it and think "oh, i saw that coming a hundred pages back!" but it's a fun ride all the same. i like the way every piece fits together so neatly, and that Lieutenant Tyrone Slothrop is such a together protagonist. hell yes.

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Hey guys,
I'm working on a piece of short fiction as a final assignment for a course I'm undertaking. Care to critique the opening sentence?

"A silhouette is carved into the thick wooden door; an image of a man and a woman, standing side by side, and Julie, who is twenty-seven years old and thoroughly annoyed by the evening’s proceedings, cringes as she understands the symbols."

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