/lit/ - Literature

>>7260198
To put this into context, Mason and Dixon went all over the world together on assignments from the Royal Academy, leaving Mason's sons, including the boy, "Doc Isaac," at home, where Mason had to fight not to have them sold into indentured servitude to pay for their upkeep. This very near the end of the book.


At Bishop they learn'd that Dixon had been buried in back of the Quaker Meeting-House in Staindrop. Doctor Isaac stay'd with his Father, step for step. At the grave, which by Quaker custom was unmark'd, Mason beseech'd what dismally little he knew of God, to help Dixon through. The grass was long and beaded with earlier rain. A Cat emerg'd from it and star'd for a long time, appearing to know them.
"Dad?" Doc had taken his arm. For an instant, unexpectedly, Mason saw the little Boy who, having worried about Storms at Sea, as Beasts in the Forest, came running each time to make sure his father had return'd safely, — whose gift of ministering to others Mason was never able to see, let alone accept, in his blind grieving, his queasiness of Soul before a life and a death, his refusal to touch the Baby, tho' 'twas not possible to blame him.... The Boy he had gone to the other side of the Globe to avoid was looking at him now with nothing in his face but concern for his Father.
"Oh, Son." He shook his Head. He didn't continue.
"It's your Mate," Doctor Isaac assur'd him, "It's what happens when your Mate dies."
Manly tears, tbh.

>>7236491
>To The Lighthouse
Seriously, nigger?

>>7236747
Infinite Jest is right up there for me as well, but pic related is my GOAT.

>>7019896

I think it suits all of them apart from Gravity's Rainbow.

That one looks better than the shitty "SON & XON" one

About to begin this after reading GR a few months back. What can I expect?

Now that the memes have settled, can we all agree this is Pinecone's best novel?

This book left me feeling very content, a warmness no other book has left me with. I won't pretend there weren't times where I was bored but the overall greatness of this book overshadowed any and all dull patches. Can we please discuss this wonderful book?

>>6205415