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Anonymous Fri Jul 31 14:39:06 2020 No.16012136 [Reply] [Original]

Why do the Chums of Chance chapters even exist?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 15:53:38 2020 No.16012729 please respond

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 15:57:16 2020 No.16012759 Because it’s fun, you dick

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 16:04:21 2020 No.16012815 >>16012136 link the disparate aspects of the book and link the globe together also this: https://oak.ucc.nau.edu/jgr6/pynchon_against.htm

Anonymous Fri Jul 31 16:20:15 2020 No.16012925
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>>16012815
> The view from the dirigible, Inconvenience, symbolizes Buddhist detachment from the battle (maya), which is elaborated by allusions to Tantra. The Trespasser, Ryder Thorn, preaches a social gospel to condemn the Chums of Chance for their dreamy detachment (p. 551). But the end of the novel endorses the Chums and the Tantric promise of the Inconvenience that floats above a violent world.
what

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 16:26:57 2020 No.16012963 >>16012925 what are you having trouble with

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 17:38:52 2020 No.16013494 >>16012815 does the dude trying to get a dog to suck him off represent capitalism, anarchism, or the Buddha?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 19:09:49 2020 No.16014117 >>16012925 you being too stupid to grasp /= it being wrong sry, fgt

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 19:50:52 2020 No.16014409 >>16013494 It's actually an illustration of a zen koan: Can a dog achieve enlightenment?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 19:51:55 2020 No.16014411 >>16012925 what

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 20:20:37 2020 No.16014569 I remember the CoC books exist within the main story itself, but didn't they also give a ride to a main character?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 20:24:22 2020 No.16014582 >>16013494 Distributism.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 20:25:29 2020 No.16014588 >>16014569 The main character wasn't a cock-rider, if that's what you're implying.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 22:06:28 2020 No.16015123 >>16012136 at the simples level, to differentiate between the immortally feel-good and adventurous, innocent world of the chums, and the rapidly industrialized strange new world (hurtling unstoppably towards the great war) down on "terrafirma"

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 1 00:19:15 2020 No.16015928 >>16012815 >https://oak.ucc.nau.edu/jgr6/pynchon_against.htm Thanks.

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