/lit/ - Literature

>>8291481
>intellectually adept
not mutually exclusive friendito bandito

>>8290240
And people think pynchon doesn't post on /lit/

>>8278056
>>8278062
Plus... "Fagles". Come on.

What's this guy's IQ?
Must be at least 180.

Also, what's his endgame?

Can you find a hack with a worse goodreads quotes first page than the hopeless effort in the link? I looked at DFW's for trolling potential but even he has good stuff. Alternatively, post really good ones.

http://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/235.Thomas_Pynchon

>deedeleeedededeledededeleduhdunuh

quality thread

>>8128263
obviously. instead of obsessing over our inability to get women we just read books and pretend they don't exist

>>8123778
maybe he was bullied about his teeth

hey wait a minute you're V!!!

>le secret identity man xD
What is he, fucking Lemony Snickett?

>The book has intentional spelling errors

why does /lit/ struggle with this concept so much? Nobody seems to recognize that all you have to do to determine if something is just a meme or actually good is leave /lit/.

pic related. apparently some people on this board really believe that pynch-o is just a meme

Why doesn't he want to be photographed?

what was he doing between 1973 and 1990?

>>7806548
I couldn't agree more.

I pity people who have to subvocalize 4chan

Why can't /lit/ believe that people don't have to subvocalize?

Maybe it's a lot harder if you aren't a late talker, but it is certainly possible.

tfw you realise the Pynch is going to die in your lifetime, probably sooner than later, since he's old as fuck. And then you realise that when he's gone there will never be anyone quite on his level writing novels in... probably ever. In a sense, when TRP dies, the whole art form will go out with him.

>>7514164
old pic

>not having the image of this guy's ugly mug burned in your mind
newfags.

I don't even know why I'm posting this here because none of you morons would know a true story if it happened to you personally, but whatever. You can choose to believe me or not, but this is true: my dad actually met into pynchon in california in the late 80s at mcdonalds. The mcdonalds was insanely crowded and my dad and pynchon were both standing away from the line reading the menu for like five minutes in silence when pynchon took a step over to my dad and said casually, "What are you gonna get?" My dad was like Who's this weirdo, and said: "I don't know, you?" And Pynchon said "Excuse me? Sorry?" "What are you gonna get?" "I-i-i-i-i..." he couldn't speak and he said "You want me to geti t for you?" "Let me give you a hand here, I'm Thomas Pynchon." "Oh, the books?" he said and he said "you got that write." "You write em?" " " " " I stay li f ted, with this..." Pulls out a lit joint and starts smoking it with moist lips and making these sucking sounds, "Mmmm" "mmmm" "with this" "with this i get it" "What, in the mcdonalds?" my dad said. "In deesesus here mcdonald's, we, me you, we do it." "Oh yeah, here we go," and my dad took the joint and took a huge ass drag as Pynchon started going for all the ketchup packets. "You take em in run," he said and he dropped em all over the floor. "A distraction," he said. "Clean up!" my dad said. "No, we're good," said Pynchon and he swept em behind the trash with his foot. "We're on elf time," he said. "No..." (my dad). "Everything's good?" "We'll take the check," he said. "Where's the ketchup packets oyu spilled over the floor?" Shrug (Pynchon). "OK, well if you cant buy anything you have to leave." "OK, we'll take it outside then, miss." She go. "That was close" "Thank you," my dad said. "They're trying to control us..........................................."