/lit/ - Literature

>>22412895

>>22285859
There's plenty of that but there's so much more weird shit. Like (going of memory):

Sausages and pears: Slothrop is starving.

It's unnatural.

>>20602487
>How does Thomas Pynchon survive if he writes so little and does he work a normal job?

Who knows. The guy got a MacArthur fellowship... something like $300,000 so I don't think he's hurting for money.

>>19554241
Yeah. What do you do when you're depressed?

Those artists crafted their best pieces first in their heads while out walking

>>18590172
>I have subconsciously stolen his writing style
That was the worst thing about him. When he tried publishing under fake female names he was immediately called out by everyone who bothered to read it.

>Pretty good for the first 300 - 500 pages
No. The first 15ish are good. Then everything after 300 is readable. Also disposable.

>reference things beyond the knowledge of most scholars
Name one =^)

>oh boy is it fucking difficult
What's difficult about research? nothing

>Not as difficult as some will have you believe
It's not even 1/3 annotated, cuz

>>18590209
=^( damn bro maybe lit isn't your thing

>>18590483
Just pick one and do it. Ignore Gablerposters.

>>18591319
Those will all feel like a cognitive relief for better or worse. GR is the closest you'll get to data density. Followed by The Recognitions.

>>18591338
No. lol. More trying than Joyce? More than Dubliners, yes. Faulkner is light reading.

>>18591495
>And but so a screaming comes across the porch, from the stairhead, Tommy bearing a bowl of lather on which a pinecone and a toy rocket lay crossed—he sits on the steps surrounded by heads and bodies of characters never to be created, Wallace having quit and thrown himself upon his belt, ha-ha o my, Tommy thinx, don't throw rocks at the throne, ha-ha.

>>17429855
You don't know what's in the Communist Manifesto? Abolish the family. Actually it's: Abolish the family! The Swede's family friends were happy to help that along. And they're happy with the outcome... one that leads to murder, rape, and the nearly complete annihilation of Merry & the Swede's family. Happily, he started a new one, as we see at the start of the novel.

But as you know, the marxist bullshit goes deeper, attempting to batter and destroy all existing concepts and replacing them. We're in the middle of it. Maybe that's why you're ready to spaz out when you think you're engaging a leftoid. Understandable.

What are gloves? Where does leather come from? Does anyone have a pseudo pet cow in the novel? How does that end up and how does that situation relate to Vietnam? C'mon man.

Roth would have been aware of John Shakespeare's profession. I'd hate to think of there being no parallel but I'm not re-reading this heap of garbage. Maybe you caught something. I didn't. Maybe Dawn is Anne Hathaway? She does cheat on the Swede.

>>15314710
Rank his books

So how would rank Pynchon's books and what do you think of him in general? He seems to be a bit divisive. Is he one of the greats?

>>15292277
Dunno

>>15288850
Okay, Tom. Is this you too?