/lit/ - Literature

>book's title is only a letter

>>6687244
My rage made me forgot to attach this pic.

What it means to be a meme? Something or someone that is liked by a lot of people? That is frequently quoted? 4chan keeps saying things are memes, but where are they memes? On 4chan.

Why would it be bad for something to be a meme? It makes things more accessible to the mass media.

Just simple bland hipsterism.

Does anyone read any economics or mathematics?

the shitposter

>the wild card

>>6617152

>>6612513

sez

>finish final year uni exams in a few days
>will get probably only a part time job for 4-8 months before my first real full time one
>will have tonnes of free time to read and learn

Here we go lit, my final chance to ascend to polyglotness! Which one: Spanish, French, or German?

I have zero social life, zero desire to live in non English speaking countries, zero preferences for any country's literature overall (obviously USA wins and houellebecq is a god tho).

Do you think Pynchon, because of the way, in which he viewed afterlife and religion, could be termed a 'philosopher' in the classic sense?

>>6507481
Pinecone, light of my Kirghiz, fire of my Schwarzgerät. My sin, my soul. Pi-en-cone: the tip of the turd taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the throat. Pi. En. Cone. He was Pig, plain Pig, in the Navy, standing five feet ten in the brig. He was Slothrop in shithouses. He was Profane at school. He was Doc on the acid trip. But in my mind he was always Pinecone. Did he have a precursor? He did, indeed he did. In point of fact, there might have been no Pinecone at all had I not read, one summer, an initial man-child. In a Prüfstand by the Zone. Oh when? About as many years before Pinecone was screened as my age was that summer. You can always count on a Mucker-Maffick for a mediocre prose style. Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, exhibit number one is what the schlemiels, the maladaptive, simple, noble-wino schlemiels, envied. Look at this tangle of text.

happy birthday pinecone

>>6495449
Basically anything by this guy.

Serious question /lit/, how do I get my hair to stop looking like this? I'm not pinecone but recently my hair's been getting that puffed up point thing.

Is this a side effect of reading Gravity's Rainbow?

Post the current books you're reading and what you're going to read next.

Plato - The Republic
Ricardo - Principles of Political Economy

Up next:
Epicurus - Letters, Principal Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings
Charles Mackay - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

>>6431578

your favourite Pynchon novel?

Slow Learner faggots are banned from this thread, being this ironical is ridiculous

What passage made you think he was onto you? For me it was this:

>Listening To The Toilet

>The basic idea is that They will come and shut off the water first. The cryptozoa who live around the meter will be paralyzed by the great inbreak of light from overhead . . . then scatter like hell for lower, darker, wetter. Shutting the water off interdicts the toilet: with only one tankful left, you really can’t get rid of much of anything any more, dope, shit, documents, They’ve stopped the inflow/outflow and here you are trapped inside Their frame with your wastes piling up, ass hanging out all over Their Movieola viewer, waiting for Their editorial blade. Reminded, too late, of how dependent you are on Them, for neglect if not good will: Their neglect is your freedom. But when They do come on it’s like society-gig Apollos, striking the lyre

>ZONGGG

>Everything freezes. The sweet, icky chord hangs in the air . . . there is no way to be at ease with it. If you try the “Are you quite finished, Superintendent?”
gambit, the man will answer, “No, as a matter of fact. . . no, you nasty little wetmouthed prig, I’m not half finished, not with you. . . .”

>So it’s good policy always to have the toilet valve cracked a bit, to maintain some flow through the toilet so when it stops you’ll have that extra minute or two. Which is not the usual paranoia of waiting for a knock, or a phone to ring: no, it takes a particular kind of mental illness to sit and listen for a cessation of noise.

Can one understand Pynchon novels if one isn't Californian, let alone not American?

Do all of Pynchon's books take place in the same universe?