/lit/ - Literature

>>17359556
This is now the official poop thread on lit. I'll start with pic rel

>>15988578
I really like your prose, friend

RIP Thomas Pynchon
1937-2020

Thomas Pynchon

When does his new novel come out?

Do you think he browses /lit/ in his NEET basement?

Why doesn't he give even a little bit of a shit about non-American readers?

What's his endgame? He's probably dead by now but anyway, let's pretend he's going to write one more book. What's it going to be about?

What did he do for work in the 17 years between Gravity's Rainbow and Vineland? Surely the royalties were not enough to live two decades on. Did he go back to living off his Aristocratic family after tarnishing their name with lefty pseudo revolutionary bs?

>>14600167
>against post-modernism
Sounds like a square. Why don't you hang around with me instead, babe?

How much does he know?

Where do I start with this guy?

LET ME READ CAMUS!!!

I'm not starting with the greeks
I'm not going to read Kant
I'm certainly not going to read Hegel
I'm not going to read Heidegger
I'm not going to read Sartre
I'm not going to read 20 books about one philosopher before reading their actual works
I'm not getting a philosophy degree
I'm not learning french

LET ME READ CAMUS!!!!

LET ME READ CAMUS!!!

I'm not starting with the greeks
I'm not going to read Kant
I'm certainly not going to read Hegel
I'm not going to read Heidegger
I'm not going to read Sartre
I'm not going to read 20 books about one philosopher before reading their actual works
I'm not getting a philosophy degree
I'm not learning french

LET ME READ CAMUS!!!!

>write prose
>divide it into arbitrary lines
>call it poetry
Why do people do this

Mr. Melville never writes naturally. His sentiment is forced, his wit is forced, and his enthusiasm is forced. And in his attempts to display to the utmost extent his powers of ‘fine writing,’ he has succeeded, we think, beyond his most sanguine expectations. The truth is, Mr. Melville has survived his reputation. If he had been contented with writing one or two books, he might have been famous, but his vanity has destroyed all his chances for immortality, or even of a good name with his own generation. For, in sober truth, Mr. Melville’s vanity is immeasurable. He will either be first among the book-making tribe, or he will be nowhere. He will centre all attention upon himself, or he will abandon the field of literature at once. From this morbid self-esteem, coupled with a most unbounded love of notoriety, spring all Mr. Melville’s efforts, all his rhetorical contortions, all his declamatory abuse of society, all his inflated sentiment, and all his insinuating licentiousness … We have no intention of quoting any passages just now from Moby Dick. The London journals, we understand, ‘have bestowed upon the work many flattering notices,’ and we should be loth to combat such high authority. But if there are any of our readers who wish to find examples of bad rhetoric, involved syntax, stilted sentiment and incoherent English, we will take the liberty of recommending to them this precious volume of Mr. Melville’s.

What is the greatest short story collection of all time

... to this?

Hi all, can someone post the Pynchon Unibomber copypasta? It's hilarious and I can't find it.

thanks

Post funny names

>Harry L. Bose
>Monty Nopply
>Mike “Not Rotch” Buttpenis

>>13878087
>No problem, Mr.Jameson!

>>13871278
it's the holocaust bro

now that he's gone, what was your favorite work of his?