/lit/ - Literature

>>3418416
Gödel, Escher, Bach is one big Easter egg

Easter eggs? Wat

like secret messages

>>3418416
All of House Of Leaves.

Pynchon's books.

I don't know what the eggs are though. I'm just sure that they're there.

come you guys give me some specific ones

Psalm 46 KJV

Lolita is full of them.

>>3418460

probably Cold War references that nobody bothers to catch

>>3418473
this

One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish... You'll shit bricks.

>>3418472
Psalm is an anagram for palms which is a reference to masturbation.

All the psalms are actually celebration of wankin' the bonehammer.

>>3418416
Finnegans' Wake has a covert reference to the Marx Brothers' live act.
"Two Gallants" makes a reference to In Search of Lost Time in the opening dialogue.
Ulysses is full of them but not in the knee-jerk way that you're thinking.

Read Lord of the Rings (trying to forget everything you know from the movies) and when Aragorn marries Arwen, you'll be like "wat"
Read it again, and you'll see all the Arwen Easter eggs all through the book.

>>3418521
No.

This is too specific, /lit/ can discuss themes and such but they don't actually read the books.

>>3418536

I've read LotR about 4 years ago and can't remember nothing... Is this something very easy to spot?

A Clockwork Orange is written like a piece of classical music. (You can also relate Alex to jesus)

>>3418472
You should probably tell the kiddies what to shake their spears at...

>>3418636
>Alex
>Jesus
No. Get your shitty analysis away from my booky-wook.

>>3418521
For like 10 seconds I pictured that true.
Holy fuck.

>>3418416
I found a little note tucked in one of the chapters of Freud's Psychology of the Masses that told me that I had stopped reading the book to check the note because my Oedipus Complex was telling me to rebel against my patriarchal duties of following predefined orders of actions. I found it to be a really funny easter egg by Freud until I analysed my actions and noticed that my liking for the egg was only a response to my love for my mother being objectified in a thing that was produced by woman, reaffirming my wishes to fuck my mom. I stopped reading Freud after that day.

>>3418774
>mommy-daddy-me
despicable

>>3418779
I could call you despicable as well but your post was so short that you didn't really gave me anything to work with here.

>>3418782
Well, it's because my post was a reference to deleuze (and guattari's) criticism of freud found in anti-oedipus (indicated by the picture and the phrase "mommy-daddy-me" which they derogatorily call the oedipal triangle). There are a lot of criticisms.

>>3418782
Also, your original post exemplifies why they don't like freud and the oedipal triangle, so you probably agree with D&G. Despicable was in reference to freud, not you.

>>3418790
My post was to be seen as a joke, yes.

the ending of infinite jest is hidden in the opening chapter as two main characters digging up a grave. It's actually awesome because DFW mentions "John N.R. Wayne" in "the ending" segment of the opening because that's the type of name where you acknowledge the first time you see it. So DFW leaves basically leaves you wondering about a lot of characters at the end of the book, one of them John N.R. Wayne and you think "I remember now, that his name was in the opening chapter. . . let me go reread that" and it hits you.

That or you read it online after googling "ending infinite jest explanation"

all of my brilliant progressive poems of hope and change +forward victory contain what you call "easter" eggs. but since you asserted christian privilege by calling it "easter" egg you are probably a knuckledragging patriarchal caveman and you won't get it.

>>3419407
Shut up, idiot. Your mouth is spewing shit.

>>3419439
black bear
BLACK bear!
the insolence
the audacity
don't you DARE
take our color
putrid white conservashit
festering rot boil
in humanity's ass
progress will come
onto the reservation with you, black bear
black bear...

>>3418473
Pale Fire even more so. It's like a puzzle game after all.

Amazons mentions ghostwriters at least twice

Some pages in Charles Dickens books are actually two really thin pages stuck together and if you manage to peel them apart, you'll have to read bonus material.

If you see kay.
Tell him he may.
See you in tea.
Tell him from me.

(F-u-c-k
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C-u-n-t
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bump

Ulysess.

I managed to figure who Blooms mystery penpal is.
I've no idea of who Mackintosh is.
And I love patriotic lotus eaters reference.

In The Beautiful and Damned Fitzgerald has one of his characters read his first novel and essentially say, "I don't even know who this person is. Who would bother to read this crap?"