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>>7500002
"Players" especially.Holy fuck. Published in 77, I think. Very fucking weird to read after 9/11.

Plus some parts of "Mao II" and "Underworld."

pynchon probably told him

>>7500348
except delillo has surpassed pynchon

>implying delillo hasn't waded through powdered history, heard dead kings walking underground, heard fanfares sound through human skulls

How can one man be so based?

Really, how is it possible?

please tell me white noise is one of his worse books.

THIS IS NOW A DELILLO VS PYNCHON THREAD

Who wins at

>prose
>themes
>incorporation of science into literature
>post modern traits

>>7500526
>prose
Pynchon
>themes
delillo
>incorporation of science
Pynchon obviously; he studied physics and chemistry before becoming a writer
>post modern traits
this is a weird category. Both are the most notorious of post modern authors, so they both hold plenty of pomo traits.

>>7500537
Ratner's Star plays with science, math and mysticism better than Mason and Dixon or GR does imho senpai

>>7500526
>prose
mcelroy
>themes
delillo
>incorporation of science into literature
mcelroy
>most modern traits
pynchon
>plot
delillo

>>7499954

>How did he know terrorists would destroy the WTC buildings?


>Don DeLillo will receive the Jerusalem Prize this year, the first American writer to win the prize since it was established 26 years ago.

>The prize, awarded at the biennial Jerusalem International Book Fair, to be held this year June 20-25, is awarded to a writer whose work best expresses the freedom of the individual in society.

>DeLillo, who will be at the fair, will receive the prize from Jerusalem's mayor, Ehud Olmert.

http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/print/19990503/31660-jerusalem-prize-for-don-delillo.html

>>7500537
This guy knows

>>7500577
the Trump "people cheered in Jersey" meme is actually to help cover this up...on 9/11 someone saw a group of people on a rooftop cheering and celebrating...they called the cops...their van was pulled over...it was all Israelis...but by spreading this fake shit that it was muslims celebrating, it covers over the fact that the people celebrating were israeli. sort of like how "internet reputation management" companies know you can never delete bad things off the internet and so to deal with it you spam good and/or fake stuff enough so that the thing you don't want people to see gets buried. 9/11 was an outside job.

>>7500537
>physics and chemistry
nigga wasnt he an engineer?

>>7500608
He started studying engineering but left for the Navy, then got a degree in English

>>7500608
what, pray tell, do you think "engineers" actually study? stem is plebby shit but god damn get a clue

>>7500623
>engineers honestly believe they are physicists and chemists

>>7500629
he fell for the stem meme

>>7500623
>do you think "engineers" actually study
>he thinks engineers study real physics

please, we have to dumb down the dumbed down models just to get engineers to not fuck up our bridges and shit.

>>7500629
suppose you were, like, studying to shoot a rocket way up in the sky and have it land some place you wanted it to land...do you suppose physics might be useful? do you suppose chemistry might be useful? do you suppose you're a fucking pleb? do you suppose you should kill yourself right now because you are to stupid to live?

>>7500629
No one said he was a physicist or a chemist, they just said he know physics and chemistry. Which he does

No need to get defensive, man, I doubt /lit/ of all places will defend the glorified cattle that engineers are part of

>>7500637
yeah studying super strings in the 12th dimension while sitting in the faculty lounge sipping a latte is REAL physics, unlike these engineering nerds who just do shit like fly men to the moon and back

>>7500648
Anon here, just wanted to say that this post gave me a hard-on

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>>7500623
pls leave this board forever

>>7500648
>my knowledge of trivial physics are important!!!

btw nasa employs a lot of real physicists because engineers can't be trusted with important shit

>>7500656
Right back at you, buddy. If you want someone to give you worth for your idiocy you should try /sci/.

>>7500648
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see
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>>7500677
see
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>>7500666
physics is cheesy bullshit, i'm just letting those uneducated plebs among us who never browsed a university course catalog while taking dump, that engineers do indeed study physics and chemistry

>>7500716
>engineers do indeed study physics

not real physics

children physics

ITT: Stemlords butthurt that nobody respects them

Goddamn when I first opened this thread and it had 0 replies I couldn't have assumed it will ever become this good

>>7500750
yeah and after college engineers do adults jobs while physics phds work at toys-r-us in the anime doll section

>>7500761
lmao stay mad kid

>>7499954
DeLillo did 911 obvi

>>7500761
>physics phds work at toys-r-us

Is that what engineers tell themselves? Aww.

>>7500769
yeah, this thread was supposed to be about how mossad did 9/11 and the holohoax never happened, but some sneaky juif instigated a stem spergout to derail it

>>7500503
:^)

>>7500779

Holy shit /lit/ knows nothing about physics, chemistry, or engineering.

>>7500526
>Prose
Gass
>themes
Gaddis
>incorporation of science into literature
Pynchon
>postmodern traits
Hawkes