/lit/ - Literature

>>20480504
Length divided by duration of erection gets you approximate strength of libido.

Pynchon is an artist.

>>20480531
Why do perverts have such great prose?

>>20480504
>book with sexual themes is sexual
surprising.

>>20480504
>Why are all critically acclaimed authors so horny?
Because they got nothing else.

>>20480563
They live in their heads

>>20480918
Don't all kinds of authors do that? Perhaps this is the right alley for me.

>>20480531
Not bad pinch, not bad.

because art in this horrible era has to be about ugly hylic faggotry
it's no different than smears of shit on a canvas

>>20480504
>>turn to a random page, just to see what I'm in for
do people really do this?

>>20480504
comes with the stroking motions made whilst holding beefy fountain pens all day, spilling their ink out upon the page and all that

>>20481010
This is an excuse you use to avoid reading books while still being able to feel superior
Pynchon writes absolutely beautifully and has a lot to say, he just also likes using parts of his books to fuck around and have fun because most of them are enormous doorstoppers and he likes some levity

>>20480522
why?

>>20481160
>Pynchon writes absolutely beautifully
I like how Pynchon writes but this sort of artist is the same as a painter who skillfully renders dog turds and gaping assholes.
No I will not read these books. I'll read other shit.

>>20480531
Holy based. I'm reading Gravity's Rainbow now anons

>>20482180
lmao child

>>20482211
>noooo you can't dislike the postmodern subject matterino!! you have to gobble the shitterino!!!!! omg I can't believe you're so heckin' unosphisticated!!!! how can you signal that you're intelligent if you do not read this man's prose about drinking piss or whatever?!??!?!?!?!?!!?!

>>20480531
I hate /lit/ memes, postmodernism, and erotica, but that was good prose.

>>20482230
>gets called child
>childish outburst

>>20481160
Almost as beautiful as Infinite Jest

I'm still fucking trying.

>>20480531
Literally just got to this part yesterday, Bleeding Edge fucking owns and everyone here who said it's bad can suck a thousand dicks.

>>20482192
That's from Bleeding Edge, not Gravity's Rainbow, but you should read both anyway.

Is it true that there is some kind of Silicon Valley in New York? Pynchon says it in Bleeding. And since I found out that Whataburger really exists and that it wasn't an invention of David Foster Wallace, I really don't know what is real and what is fake about the United States anymore.

>>20482335
During the Dot Com era of the late 90s there definitely was. There is still a decent sized tech sector in NYC but it's nowhere near the scale of San Francisco or Austin.

>>20482349

interesting. The world always talks about California, but New York's IT sector seems intriguing.

>>20480531
>>20480563
>>20480918
I'm not disgusted by it. I've read a lot of degenerate works. This is just pulp-tier prose, even Patterson level. This board isn't really any different from a campus or, god have mercy, reddit.

>>20482180

I have a hard time understanding Rainbow, but there is one scene that will always stick with me when a character realizes that a missile is traveling in his direction.

>>20482335
Earlier in the 1990s there was another lage cluster of tech firms around Route 128 in MA near Harvard and MIT. The California companies ended up winning out, though - probably because the MA business culture was much more conservative. MA is unironically a rather conservative state, even its social liberalism is done in a dour and Puritanical manner

>>20482276
IJ is shit

>>20482473

>t. Harold Bloom

>>20480531
This is not good and reads eerily similar to the high-ranked shit on Literotica

>>20482473
IJ is definitely not shit but compared to M&D it's babby's first prose, but then again so are 99.9% of books

>>20480563
Sexual perversion is correlated with creativity. See Harold Bloom’s observation about how many great writers were gay.

>>20482180
approximately 10% of gravitys rainbow is sexual
even the sex is thematic btw, it's not gratuitous

>>20480531
This is THE most bog-standard prose I've ever read In my life, pedestrian even. Footfags have brain damage.

>>20483970
and yet what was posted here was the sex

>>20480522
That means the longer you're erect the weaker your libido is, idiot.

only read his lot 49 and it was nonstop nuclear autism. I imagine his prose getting better along with the level of autism in his other stuff so not sure whether i should stick around

>>20480531

>>20483985
>, pedestrian even

>Pynchon is just scatological
>His prose is pedestrian
>He's just meaningless pomo schlock

>>20486714
Book?

>>20486737
Nevermind
M&D

I'm going to try Bleeding again today. But I'll be honest, I wish he had talked about Silicon Valley in New York. The very idea of the concept is more interesting, like California's evil brother.

Is there a reason Bleeding starts in March 2001?