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What will I get out of reading Gravity's Rainbow?

What did you get out of reading Gravity's Rainbow?

>> No.6301643

>>6301631
its fun

>> No.6301661

>>6301631
>What will I get out of reading Gravity's Rainbow?
Hopefully not a boner
>What did you get out of reading Gravity's Rainbow?
A boner

>> No.6301664

>>6301631>What will I get out of reading Gravity's Rainbow?
>I hope you don't get boner
>>What did you get out of reading Gravity's Rainbow?
>I got a boner

>> No.6301666

>>6301631
On the writing of Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon reportedly told Siegel, "I was so fucked up while I was writing it . . . that now I go back over some of those sequences and I can't figure out what I could have meant."

Why would you bother reading a book written by a washed up wannabe hippie who deliberately convolutes his stories to appear deep?

>> No.6301684

>>6301666
>I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Author's intention doesn't matter. The work has to be studied like it was written by God himself with the hands of the human writer.

>> No.6301687

>>6301631
Probably confusion.

A boner.

>> No.6301713

>>6301631
I'm in the middle of reading it, I'm not sure what I'm getting out of it though. A larger vocabulary I suppose, but there are better authors for that.

>> No.6302064

I haven't read it, but a boner.

>> No.6302136

Child sex, urine and shit, metaphysical and slightly overwritten stories of inanimate objects. Best of all you get to tell people, "I've read Gravity's Rainbow."

>> No.6302139

>>6301631
reading these replies makes me wanna buy gravitiy's rainbow

>> No.6302149

>>6301666
What the quote reveals though, is that Pynchon did, in fact, mean SOMETHING.

>> No.6302171
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6302171

>>6301661
>mfw I can relate to this

>> No.6302870

>>6301631
>What did you get out of reading Gravity's Rainbow?
Jealousy that my prose will never be that beautiful or depraved.

>> No.6303059

>What will I get out of reading Gravity's Rainbow?
I don't know

>What did you get out of reading Gravity's Rainbow?
Fun, excitement, wonder, an even greater love of literature, a need to read Gravity's Rainbow again, a huge web of characters and plots in my head, a bit of an interest in different types of engineering, spirituality, occultism and drugs, and a vague, impressionistic critique of war and the military industrial complex

>> No.6303771

knowledge that literature as a serious artform is dead

>> No.6303871

>>6301684
But Joyce was actually conscious of the fact he was doing this, he was also lucid while he was writing it and understood his intentions and executed them in a manner so that, with proper study, these ideas could be unearthed.

>> No.6304040

>>6303871
>a joke you have to explain