/lit/ - Literature

>>11104631
I don't know

>>11104631
to fuck with cuck-posters

>>11104631
Because Tyrone's great, great, great granpappy was named after the white, New-English do-gooders who freed him.

>>11104631
because then it wouldn't be weird if he got fucked by the blacks, when looking for his harmonica

>>11104631
Becuse Slothrop is a madeup surname and Tyrone is extremely common name for old blood WASP’s as is Jamal and other names of that sort. Almost all nog names are huwhy peepoe names

>>11104631
Because it's either Sloth or Entropy.

>>11104631
Tyrone is an Irish name.

>>11106038
>as is Jamal
lol no

>>11106082
No.

>>11104631
Did you not read the book? It's a rhetorical question, I know you didn't. How do I know? Because this exact question is directly addressed by Pynchon (fairy early on, too, I think)

>>11106168
god l wish that were me

>>11106199
>Did you not read the book? It's a rhetorical question, I know you didn't. How do I know? Because this exact question is directly addressed by Pynchon (fairy early on, too, I think)
I only read up to the part where he gets the bananas for breakfast, took me about 2-3 hours to get there

>>11106265
>the part where he gets the bananas for breakfast, took me about 2-3 hours to get there
buddy that's within the first 10 pages

>>11107365
exactly what l'm saying
read moby-dick at a rate of 6-12 pages an hour
read blood meridian 8-11 pages
read rutherfords quixote 15 pages
read a tale of two cities 6-10 pages
read questions that matter 4-5 pages
read heart of darkness 6-15 pages
read lotr 15-18 pages
read art of fiction 6 pages
read botns 10-15 pages
read lattimores iliad 8-12 pages
read the confidence man 6-12 pages
read a canticle for leibowitz 8-14 pages
read hombre at 10-15 pages
read butchers crossing at 8-18 pages
read lonesome dove at 8-12 pages
reading gravitys rainbow 4-6 pages an hour (including every 1 companion book page for roughly each 5th page

>>11107417
Well, good on you for taking your time to enjoy the books you read. You'll probably retain more that way, anyway. If it's your first time through Gravity's Rainbow though, you're better off without the Companion. I don't have a copy myself, but from what I've heard it has a fair number of errors and has lots of stuff missing. Try to piece it together yourself. I still recommend looking up words you don't know, especially the parts in French and German, along with looking up historical references, equations, etc.

>>11106071
Wow, missed that.

have you never heard of tyrone power

>>11104631
Because having child rape is acceptable but not if it's interracial.

>>11104663
Tyrone is part of Ireland, isn't it?

>>11107460
Nah, the errors are minor and pretty much corrected in the second edition. It's really quite impressive how exhaustive it is, and the errors I'm aware of are very minor details. I'd say it's enriched my experience with the book a fair deal and has helped me grasp its structure to a greater extent than I'd have been able to do without it.

>>11106199
Where? I read the book, but I'm stupid and missed that i think

>>11106133
It is you retarded fuckwit

Completely unrelated, but the part in The Counterforce where Pynchon starts talking about Tarot cards may be one of my favorite parts of the book. I just love when it goes into full spooky occult mode.

>>11104631
i thought he was

>>11107417
>read heart of darkness 6-15 pages
How low IQ are you? Why are you trying to read when you clearly don't enjoy it?

>>11104631
>gravity's rainbow
>big and heavy enough to throw in a perfect parabola straight into the trash

>>11106071
>Tyrone Slothrop is a fucking anagram
>more word games from Pinecone

How the fuck did I miss that ... what a brilliant bastard

>>11112511

>observing that expending energy accelerates the progress of entropy
>"brilliant"

It makes me sad that readers are this easily impressed.

>>11108922
It's Islamic, due to the influence of NoI. Jesus Christ, the state of you