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>Pynchon's self-insert character fucks an 11 year old
What are the implications of this?

What are some books that invoke the same feeling you get when you read "The Counterforce"? Where it's just a bunch of spooky passages pounding the theme of absolute powerlessness down, and there's this whole spiritual aspect going on.

What did you guys think of this book? Personally I enjoyed it, especially the first 50 pages. However, I do somewhat quibble with it. Parts of the prose are underwhelming and...wait. What's that smell? WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT SMELL? *sniffs air* *sweats profusely* Dare I say that our le memester john lü green is coming HOME XD from his war in iraque?
*John lü Green enter le epic room full of SHIT (hahha I said shit lol)
Green: Wait...What's that smell? what the fuck id thazwhat is that what os t hta what id that FUCKING SMELL LISA?!!!!!!"
*Jumpcut to teletubbies*
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GACHI de KASHIMASHI Never Ending Girls' Talk
shuugyou CHAIMU made matenai
chikoku wa shite mo soutai wa Non Non Non!
seiippai Study After School

>>9309701
Stop being a mad pleb. Start with pic related.

Hey, it's actually pretty good, thanks for making me fall for the meme, /lit/friends :)

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>It wasn’t always so. In the trenches of the First World War, English men came to love one another decently, without shame or make-believe, under the easy likelihoods of their sudden deaths, and to find in the faces of other young men evidence of otherworldly visits, some poor hope that may have helped redeem even mud, shit, the decaying pieces of human meat. . . . It was the end of the world, it was total revolution (though not quite in the way Walter Rathenau had announced): every day thousands of the aristocracy new and old, still haloed in their ideas of right and wrong, went to the loud guillotine of Flanders, run day in and out, on and on, by no visible hands, certainly not those of the people—an English class was being decimated, the ones who’d volunteered were dying for those who’d known something and hadn’t, and despite it all, despite knowing, some of them, of the betrayal, while Europe died meanly in its own wastes, men loved. But the life-cry of that love has long since hissed away into no more than this idle and bitchy faggotry. In this latest War, death was no enemy, but a collaborator. Homosexuality in high places is just a carnal afterthought now, and the real and only fucking is done on paper. . . .

What was it about WW2 that made it so drastically different than WW1? In what way was there "love" with WW1, yet "faggotry" with WW2? Does it have anything to do with the idea that War and Society in general were becoming more and more mechanical and 'destruction-focused' after WW2, with the 'faggotry' being a metaphor for a sort of death? Perhaps in a reference to The Cold War and the arms race? That's the only thing I can get from this quote. What do you guys think?

Can we all agree that the Roger and Jessica parts were the best parts of the book?

"I came!" screamed the sky.

>>9042382
"I'm about to fuck your shit up"

What does lit think of pic related

Currently reading this for the first time, I'm about halfway through The Counterforce and I have no idea what the fuck is going on anymore.

In The Zone was 400 pages long but still coherent. Now I'm just in a constant state of confusion - what exactly do the Schwarzkommando want? Why are all the Hereros suddenly all good after 00000 is explained? Is Slothrop in some sort of catatonic insanity? What's Katje relationship with Blicero again? What's up with the story of the bulb and that 30 page long series of Slothrop flashbacks?

I'm losing it, /lit/.

>>8917813

Catch-22: Hehe, Major major major major. Delightful. Highly amusing. Bon appetit.

Gravitys rainbow: HA HA HA HAHAHAHAHAJAHAHAHAAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAJA. OH MY HOD HAHAHAHAHAJAHAHAHAHA THE MAN GOES DOWN HAHAHA *soda sprsying everywhere* THE TOULET HAHAHAHAHA I CANT BREATHE I CANT BREATHE STOP IT STOP IT. Hahahahaahahahahahahahah oh god ....... Oh god...... Wow. Wow. Holy freaking cow. ....

Jackson

So I don't get it. What was the point of the 00000? Why did they fire it north, and why was Slothrop sent to find it?

Any other good books about eating poop?

in what ways has gravity's rainbow changed the way you view the world and literature as an art form? without gushing over pynchon, it does seem to be a book of overwhelming cultural significance.

Any other good books about eating poop?

What did he mean by (((They)))?

>>8763299
That's a controversial thing to say here, anon. Be careful.

Has anybody here read Gravity's Rainbow? I just got it off hold from the library and I'm a little apprehensive about starting. Recommendation's on things to read up on before I start? How did you guys find reading it for the first time?

A formless and dull mass of phony folklore, a cold pudding of a book. Conventional and drab, redeemed from utter insipidity only by infrequent snatches of heavenly intonations. Detest it. A cancerous growth of fancy word-tissue hardly redeems the dreadful joviality of the folklore and the easy, too easy, allegory. Indifferent to it, as to all regional literature written in dialect. A tragic failure and a frightful bore.