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22325209 No.22325209 [Reply] [Original]

Why’d he write fawning letters to Delillo but not Pynchon?

>> No.22325232
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Who cares

>> No.22325339

Pynchon probably had Melanie Jackson tell this chud to pound sand when DFW's agent asked for a mailing address.

>> No.22325366

why does /lit/ obsess about this depressed illiterate

>> No.22325410

>>22325366
He saved literature

>> No.22325440
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He killed himself because Federer lost Wimbledon 2008.

>> No.22326238

>>22325209
Funny that he gleefully shat on Vineland numerous times in the press, then Pinch releases M&D which BTFOs anything DFW ever wrote

>> No.22327127

>>22325339
probably something like this

>> No.22327134

>>22325209
DeLillo is a legend. Pynchon is masturbatory nonsense.

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>>22327134
This is the most beautifully midwit post I've ever seen on /lit/.

>> No.22328031

>>22326238
>Funny that he gleefully shat on Vineland numerous times in the press
Did he? I know he talked about it once in a letter. What are some of the numerous articles/interviews where he shat on vineland?

>> No.22328528

>>22327134
This. Anyone who says otherwise needs to acquire taste.

>> No.22328562

>>22326238
He was hardly the only person to criticize Vineland but yes Pynchon is the much better writer and Mason and Dixon is one of the best books ever written.

>> No.22328790

>>22327139
He's right though.

>> No.22328884

>>22325209
To my knowledge, in his later years he said that he wasn't that much into Pynchon anymore, that he began to see some limitations, while being more drawn towards DeLillo.

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>>22328562
The only sin Vineland committed was coming out so long after GR

>> No.22329018

>>22325366
Because, despite the memes, and despite the fact that he probably never truly lived up to his potential, he probably really was the best of his generation and, particularly given the ever-dwindling amount of authors who actually give a shit about competing with the all-time greats, his suicide probably set back modern literary fiction many decades.

>> No.22329021

>>22325440
Unironically true. Realized this after reading his collected tennis essays.