/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.10366605]

R.I.P.

You will be missed.

[Anonymous No.10366614]

>>10366605
don't even joke about the brapmeister

[Anonymous No.10366618]

>>10366605
He looks like he's about to pass some Gass

[Anonymous No.10366630]

>>10366614
It's not a joke man. But more importantly, will he be going to heaven?

[Anonymous No.10366636]

>>10366605
He's actually dead, lads

[Anonymous No.10366640]

>>10366636
Good riddence

[Anonymous No.10366642]

>>10366630
>>10366636
fugg

F

[Anonymous No.10366686]

For those we care, here's a great picture of a late Gass next to Claro, his french translator

https://twitter.com/madmanclaro/status/938699572599287808

[Anonymous No.10366694]

Let's be honest. The only reason this guy ever got attention here is because his second name sounds like a fart

[Anonymous No.10366699]

>>10366694
That's bs considering all this board can actualyl talk about is engligh-language modernism.

[Anonymous No.10366704]

>>10366686
>here's a great picture of a late Gass
doesn't look late to me

[Anonymous No.10366706]

>>10366605
FUCK

Reading The Tunnel right now...did...did I kill him?

[Anonymous No.10366708]

>>10366706
what is it with all the koth posters

[Anonymous No.10366711]

>>10366704
2 years old, go cherry-pick somewhere else ffs.

[Anonymous No.10366714]

>>10366708
KotH is an american classic, just like all of Gass' work

[Anonymous No.10366773]

>>10366708
what is it with all the kot posters

[Anonymous No.10366781]

>>10366706
you filthy mURDERER

[Anonymous No.10366787]

R.I.P. America's foremost prose stylist :(

[Anonymous No.10366802]

FUCKING JOHN ASHBERY AND NOW THIS
WORST YEAR OF ALL TIME

[Anonymous No.10366880]

God fucking damnit i thougt it was another lit-pretends-bloom has died scare.
Fuck
At least i can now say that i've read the tunnel while he was still alive lile the obnoxious pseuds he knew we all are.

[Anonymous No.10366884]

You know hes next

[Anonymous No.10366967]

>tfw was waiting him die so I can keep only reading dead white male writers

off to buy the tunnel lads

>>10366884
can't wait to read this one!

[Anonymous No.10366974]

>tfw never got the chance to read the tunnel

fuuck rip gas we hardly knew ye

[Anonymous No.10366988]

how to make it to 93yo while being a disgusting fatass (no afence)

[Anonymous No.10367010]

Mods, this man deserves his own sticky thread. Rest in peace, William Gass. You were America's foremost prose stylist.

[Anonymous No.10367021]

>>10366988
you're full of hot air man

full of gass

[Anonymous No.10367148]

feelsbadman

[Anonymous No.10367163]

Who'sth'?

[Anonymous No.10367164]

Where should one start with this absolute motherfucker?

[Anonymous No.10367242]

>>10367164
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country. Or Middle C

[Anonymous No.10367312]

>>10366884
Take it the fuck back.

[Anonymous No.10367319]

This sucks desu. He’s a legendary /lit/ author.

I remember the original Gassposter, who memed I and many others into reading The Tunnel.
For all it’s flaws it’s a still a brilliant and degenerate magnum opus.

RIP Gassman

[Anonymous No.10367333]

>>10366618
The Gass has passed indeed

[Anonymous No.10367338]

F

[Anonymous No.10367346]

I love you papa
you will be missed

[Anonymous No.10367349]

>>10367164
Also his essays are fantastic

[Anonymous No.10367356]

>>10367164
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country -> Omensetter's Luck -> Cartesian Sonatas -> Eyes -> Middle C -> The Tunnel

[Anonymous No.10367360]

>>10366711
late like your sense of humor

[Anonymous No.10367369]

>>10366605
Literally who?

[Anonymous No.10367406]

>>10367010
Completely agree. Are Mods asleep?

I've only read his essays and short fiction but he will be missed.

[Anonymous No.10367427]

FUCKING STICKY THIS ALREADY

[Anonymous No.10367433]

>>10367010
>prose stylist
I barf a little into my mouth whenever I see one of you soyboy pseuds write these two words.

[Anonymous No.10367451]

I thought that was a pic of my grandma for a sec.

[Anonymous No.10367454]

>>10367451
Your grandma is NOT America's stylishest prose foreskin. Get lost.

[Anonymous No.10367456]

>>10367010
t. pathetic nationalist cuckboi

[Anonymous No.10367457]

Pass gas to pay respects.

[Anonymous No.10367466]

>>10367433
As if using the words 'soyboy' and 'pseuds' wasn't bad enough, you didn't even recognize the 'foremost prose stylist' meme. I take it you don't spend much time here.

[Anonymous No.10367490]

>>10367457
B

[Anonymous No.10367500]

>During this stage, death is only somatic and it lasts for one to two hours. All the muscles of the body begin to relax soon after death.
BRAAAAAAAAAAAAAP

[Anonymous No.10367501]

>>10366605
damn

[Anonymous No.10367557]

>>10367500
I kek'd more than I wanted to

[Anonymous No.10367668]

Gassposter here. I’m devastated. If mods don’t sticky I’ll be spamming threads for the next several weeks. GASS WAS A REAL ONE ;_;

[Anonymous No.10367680]

>>10367500
I am laughing on the goddamned bus (at the thought of Gass's ass passing gas).

[Anonymous No.10367682]

>What I have to tell you is as long as life, but I shall run as swiftly, so before you know it, we shall both be over.

;_________;7

[Anonymous No.10367726]

>>10366605
Fuck man, August Ames and William Gass in the same day? I don't think I can handle this.

[Anonymous No.10367739]

His soul is finally released and is wafting upwards through the air, one final emanation forever diffusing, one last billowing ripple, now gone with the wind. Float in piece, Mr. Gass.

[Anonymous No.10367748]

His soul is finally released and is wafting upwards through the air, one final emanation forever diffusing, one last billowing ripple, now gone with the wind. Float in peace, Mr. Gass.

[Anonymous No.10367760]

DOCTOR ZAIUS!

[Anonymous No.10367888]

F

[Anonymous No.10367960]

>>10367500
Based BRAP poster.

[Anonymous No.10367977]

That's weird, I just started to read him. RIP
Anyone think he has enough legacy to be remembered?

[Anonymous No.10368350]

>>10367977
Legacy enough to get a GODDAM STICKY. MODS!

[Anonymous No.10368380]

>>10367977
he's one of only noteworthy english writers in the entirety of the twentieth century, so yes

[Anonymous No.10368396]

>>10367977
Thanks for killing him, asshole

[Anonymous No.10368400]

>>10368380
>one of only noteworthy english writers in the entirety of the twentieth century
This is a terribly wrong statement.

[Anonymous No.10368424]

F (This means Fart, right?)

[Anonymous No.10368427]

>>10366605
You could say:

Gass passed away

[Anonymous No.10368431]

>>10364579

[Anonymous No.10368459]

august ames and william gass all in one day

[Anonymous No.10368470]

>>10367977

absolutely

[Anonymous No.10368534]

>>10368459
hope billy braps got succ in the waiting room

[Anonymous No.10368640]

>>10368459
>august ames
were they real ?

(... but honestly, were they ?)

[Anonymous No.10368651]

F

[Anonymous No.10368677]

>>10367726
>>10368459
Hmmmm . . . Maybe they were the same person?

[Anonymous No.10368716]

legit sad. i liked middle h and the blue book. what are some of his other top ones? always wanted to read omensetter

[Anonymous No.10368798]

rip americas foremost prose stylist

[Anonimous No.10368807]

>>10368716
just get all his fiction senpai, there's only >>10367356
also check out his nonfiction "Reading Rilke"

[Anonymous No.10368818]

>>10368677
Now THIS is the best /lit/ conspiracy

[Anonymous No.10368821]

wtf i thought you all were memeing but he's actually dead

[Anonymous No.10368837]

>>10368798
Foremost essayist as well.
F

[Anonymous No.10368839]

Oh

[Anonymous No.10368861]

>>10368640
Yes. Right?

[Anonymous No.10368866]

Magas' Fall

RIP

F

[Anonymous No.10368872]

>>10368866
magus'***

[Anonymous No.10368879]

I just hope the Gass passed painlessly.

[Anonymous No.10368898]

>>10367433
>>10367456
I don’t know who to even believe anymore

[Anonymous No.10368992]

>>10366884
Bite your fucking tongue

[Anonymous No.10369073]

>no sticky

wow

[Anonymous No.10369102]

>>10369073
What do the mods have against Gass?

[Anonymous No.10369204]

>>10369102

dunno

[Anonymous No.10369349]

I guess /lit/ doesn't care

[Anonymous No.10369358]

Why are the mods being such gigantic faggots? Gass was one of the greats and deserves a sticky. Even ignoring his brilliance as a writer, his status as a meme should get him there.

[Anonymous No.10369380]

>>10369073
>>10369102
>>10369358
>>>/qa/1763769

[Anonymous No.10369392]

it takes the mods almost three hours to delete porn in /tv/
I doubt they even look at /lit/
if I get warned for this post without this thread being sticked then the mods are illiterate fags

[Anonymous No.10369656]

If mods don't sticky a Gass post I'll post 50 Gass threads every day for the foreseeable future to make sure we don't forget.

[Anonymous No.10369661]

>>10369392
Why would you get warned for your post?

[Anonymous No.10369674]

>thinking mods browse /lit/

[Anonymous No.10369697]

>>10369656
>>10369674
>>10369392
The reason they don't sticky things here is because we keep it to one thread. Stickies are only useful for when people are making 40 threads about it and will get hundreds of posts. Meanwhile we are pushing 60 replies here

[Anonymous No.10369703]

>>10369661
the mods are like 18 and vindictive

[Anonymous No.10369786]

Ashbery and Gass...

[Anonymous No.10369837]

>>10369697
>useful
I bet you're a dusty brit.

[Anonymous No.10370203]

Have any of you actually read a single one of his books?

[Anonymous No.10370241]

literally who

[Anonymous No.10370242]

>>10370203
Lmao no. I thought him and Borges were the same guy.

[/qa/ck No.10370257]

Who?

[Anonymous No.10370427]

>>10367010
this

[Anonymous No.10370437]

>Gass died
>come to /lit/
>no sticky
lol truly the most pathetic board

[Anonymous No.10370446]

>>10370437
>Literally all the greatest authors have been dead for over fifty years
>Getting concerned over some post modern goblin

[Anonymous No.10370487]

I've shilled no small amount of esoteric postmodern authors on /lit/--Hawkes, Gaddis, Coover, McElroy--but, due in equal parts to my legitimate love of him and his writing and my own sophomoric sense of humor, Gass was by far the most fun to spam. Goodnight Gass and good night /lit/. I'll probably never post here again.

[Anonymous No.10370557]

>>10367010
Let's keep raising a stink until we get a sticky for Gass.

[Anonymous No.10370607]

Today I will begin to dig

[Anonymous No.10370648]

>mfw the gass has passed

[Anonymous No.10370670]

>>10370487
Gass's passing has certainly left a cloud over the whole board.

[Anonymous No.10370692]

We had a sticky when fucking Terry Pratchett died but Gass doesn't get one? This board has fallen.

[Anonymous No.10370809]

>>10366605
Alas! The time of Gass has come to pass.

[Anonymous No.10370855]

>>10366605
Just imagine him writing his next novel. Sitting there in his greasy chair, fat folds a-flapping, and squeezing out yet another turd of incoherent po-mo babbling.

[Anonymous No.10370871]

>>10366605

RIP in peace
The Recognitions will stand as one of the great works of the 20th century

[Anonymous No.10370882]

>>10370871
You're thinking of William Gibson friend, this thread is about William H. Gass, author of Neuromancer, Agape Agape, Omensetter's Luck and so on

[Anonymous No.10370889]

>>10366884
I'm already dead you nincompoop!

[Anonymous No.10371103]

Middle C was great

:(

[Anonymous No.10371152]

How do you get rid of trapped gass?

[Anonymous No.10371479]

>>10371152
just B yourself

[Anonymous No.10373086]

One bump for the Gassmaster

[Anonymous No.10373360]

>>10366605
F Gass

May the mods never get a green light ever again for not stickying you

[Anonymous No.10373500]

>>10371479
>just B yourself
Zyklon B?

[Anonymous No.10373746]

MODS

STICKY THIS

WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU

[Anonymous No.10374522]

>still no sticky

[Anonymous No.10374731]

Sticky pls

[Anonymous No.10375124]

We lost one of the greats.

[Anonymous No.10375174]

Last week I was at a book sale at my local library and I picked up a volume of his essays--The World in the Word. Even though I hated--HATED--Omensetter's Luck, I thought that the essays would be insightful, so I paid the 50 cents and bought it.

Got it home and looked through it and found that it was signed by the author.

[Anonymous No.10375192]

>>10366605
Horrible news. I'm crying.

[Anonymous No.10375566]

So was he actually good? His writing doesn't sound that interesting

[Anonymous No.10375623]

>>10375566
>Wild eyes were another sign. It is something I have seldom seen — the expression of an ecstatic state — though much is foolishly written of them, as if they grew like Jerusalem artichokes along the road. The eyes are black, right enough, whatever their normal color is; they are black because their perception is condensed to a coal, because the touch and taste and perfume of the lover, the outcry of a dirty word, a welcome river, have been reduced in the heat of passion to a black ash, and this unburnt residue of oxidation, this calyx, replaces the pupil so it no longer receives but sends, and every hair is on end, though perhaps only outspread on a pillow, and the nostrils are flared, mouth agape, cheeks sucked so the whole face seems as squeezed as a juiced fruit; I know, for once Lou went into that wildness while we were absorbing one another, trying to kiss, not merely forcefully, not the skull of our skeleton, but the skull and all the bones on which the essential self is hung, kiss so the shape of the soul is stirred too, that's what is called the ultimate French, the furtherest fuck, when a cock makes a concept cry out and climax; I know, for more than once, though not often, I shuddered into that other region, when a mouth drew me through its generosity into the realm of unravel, and every sensation lay extended as a lake, every tie was loosed, and the glue of things dissolved. I knew I wore the wild look then. The greatest gift you can give another human being is to let them warm you till, in passing beyond pleasure, your defenses fall, your ego surrenders, its structure melts, its towers topple, lies, fancies, vanities, blow away in no wind, and you return, not to the clay you came from — the unfired vessel — but to the original moment of inspiration, when you were the unabbreviated breath of God.

[Anonymous No.10375677]

>>10366605
>didn't even make the mainstream news
Fugg, he deserves more.

[Anonymous No.10375995]

>>10375174
Have you read In The Heart of The Heart of The Country? Personally I liked it a lot more than Omensetter's Luck. Didn't hate OL like you but the Furber chapters (particularly that first one) were rough. Haven't read any of his nonfiction. Pretty cool find though anon

[Anonymous No.10376137]

>>10375566
He was America's foremost prose stylist. What writing interests you? Shit?

[Anonymous No.10376234]

>>10368459
What the fuck. I was just fapping to her the other day. Def one of my favorites. I also read The Tunnel earlier this year and it blew me away. Goodnight sweet prince and princess.

[Anonymous No.10376653]

>>10366605
>>RIP bona fide literary luminary
>thread is 50+ hours old
>still no sticky

baka mods
are you just being obstinate at this point or are you truly this ignorant

[Anonymous No.10376673]

>>10375995
>Have you read In The Heart of The Heart of The Country?

I haven't. I read OL because it was on a list of books DFW highly recommended. I liked The Screwtape Letters, but OL was grueling. I didn't want to be locked in the Reverend's head like that. And sorry, I got the title wrong, it's The World Within the Word. Haven't cracked it yet. It's pretty well down the stack.

[Anonymous No.10376676]

>>10376234
I have unironically fapped to Gass' descriptions of fellatio but never to August Ames

[Anonymous No.10376680]

You could say...
The Gass just passed

[Anonymous No.10376682]

>>10375677
Wikipedia didn't put him in recent deaths yet they have some literally who pop actor and french novelist.

[Anonymous No.10376699]

who?

[Anonymous No.10376816]

>>10376676
Both. This past week was devastating. Probably the closest I'll ever get to losing a lover :(

[Anonymous No.10376885]

Yup, this fucker's croaked. F

[Anonymous No.10377969]

>>10366605

only ever read heart of the heart of the country but it was an impressive work. I wouldn't say his death is as much of a loss as Ashbery's was a few months ago, but RIP.

it's weird to see my early college idols all dying at once. I bet WS Merwin will be dead in a few months too.

[Anonymous No.10378090]

Mods, you can still redeem yourselves. Sticky this thread! The Gass man is a /lit/ favorite, and was America's foremost prose stylist. I'm still in mourning.

[Anonymous No.10378424]

I'm sure a valid argument can be made, but foremost prose stylist is an imposing bar, even if presumably we're only talking about living writers. You've got John Barth, Robert Coover, whatshisface from Cornell the world's reigning hide-and-seek champion...

But yeah, sticky seems well-earned.

[Anonymous No.10378533]

BRAAAAAAP!

[Anonymous No.10378551]

Does any know how he died? Maybe someone could have saved him or maybe his end inexorable; after all, many diseases are silent but deadly.

[Anonymous No.10378559]

>>10378551
he died of natural causes in his home in missouri
93 years of age

[Anonymous No.10378568]

>>10376673

What font is that?

[Anonymous No.10378599]

>>10377969
Wait, Ashbery died?

[Anonymous No.10378614]

>>10378599
3 days before the second volume in the the Library of America series of his works came out :(
he passed away September 3rd, natural causes, age 90

[Anonymous No.10378624]

>>10378614
Shit, didn't hear about it.
>Bloom, McCarthy, or Pynchon will very likely die in the next ~3 years

[Anonymous No.10378668]

Oh man. (;_;)7

Does anyone know where to find Tests of Time in ebook format? Does it even exist?

[Anonymous No.10378751]

>>10367163
>>10367360
>>10370257
>>10376699
>>10370241

t. plebians

[Anonymous No.10378782]

>>10366605
Godspeed you indivisible portion of goodness.

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[Anonymous No.10378920]

>>10378568
>What font is that?

Something called Bodoni Book, named after Giambattista Bodoni (1740-1813). He was the head of a printing house in Parma that became prominent throughout Europe for the editions of Greek, Latin, French and Italian Classics they published in his stylistically innovative font designs.

[Anonymous No.10379533]

bump

[Anonymous No.10379685]

M O D S

[Anonymous No.10380635]

I've been reading some of the few obituaries, and it seems like none of them actually read Gass' fiction. They only quote his essays, which is sad considering he himself preferred his fiction. I'm sure that if any of them had actually read The Tunnel, they would be all over his dick because of the section on bigotry and its relevance to the current political moment (though of course they would miss the deeper point about the "fascism of the heart"). Ah well, serves me right for expecting anything worthwhile from the press.

Anyway, bumping with some pics because he deserves better.

[Anonymous No.10380652]

pretty fucking weird. i was in U City the day he died and almost bought a copy of the tunnel. but $16. Nah. Fuck Subterranean books.

why do you think he lived in the (second) trendiest part of St Louis?

[Anonymous No.10381313]

>>10380652
he was a macfag

[Anonymous No.10381470]

>>10380635
More Hot Gass pics, please.

[Anonymous No.10381527]

>>10380635

> when the braaap so fat you give your hands a clap

[Anonymous No.10381565]

When I lived near wash U I used to ghost his lectures despite not even being a student. Unforgettable. RIP

[Anonymous No.10381673]

>>10380635
>>10381470
My plan was to post them intermittently to prop the thread up as long as possible, but here's another Gass since the people demand more.

[Anonymous No.10381747]

Daily reminder that the mods have not deemed William Gass worthy of a sticky
At some point they will simply ban me instead of being competent and/or mature

[Anonymous No.10382141]

What's his best nonfiction lads? I've only read his fiction. Books, essays, etc welcome

[Anonymous No.10382147]

>>10366605

kek my post was removed

[Anonymous No.10382820]

>>10366605
who?

[Anonymous No.10382976]

>>10382820

hello moderator

[Anonymous No.10383475]

>>10380635

Sorry to do this, but his resemblance to Steve Bannon cannot go unremarked on.

[Anonymous No.10383484]

>>10382976
kek

[Anonymous No.10383807]

>>10366605
all he did was write postmodern drivel. what is /lit/'s obsession with postmodernism? is it because it lacks any kind of rule or consistency, and that all of you retards are incapable of actually dedicating time and effort to honing a craft? it's just easier to shit on a page and call it artistic expression?

[Anonymous No.10383865]

>>10378559
Isnt this the best way to die? Rip mr gass

[Anonymous No.10383949]

>this thread is probably the biggest gathering of his fans there is or has been or will be

R I P one for gasss

[Anonymous No.10383993]

F to the mad gas daddy

[Anonymous No.10384004]

>>10378624
I think McCarthy and Bloom are both goners by 2020 my dude. What the fuck

[Anonymous No.10384052]

>>10383865
No way. I would like to die from unnatural, otherworldly, eldritch causes.

[Anonymous No.10384206]

>>10383807
are you 15 or something?

this is just sad

[Anonymous No.10384796]

>>10380635
Moar pics of the sexy Gass bomb.

[Anonymous No.10385518]

I just heard the news. Rest in peace, sweet prince.

[Anonymous No.10385931]

Never Forget.

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>>10381673
>>10381470
>>10384796
Sorry, I've been busy. Here's another.

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>>10388476
Kek. Maybe we should make Gass interview reaction pics the new DFW interview reaction pics.

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[Anonymous No.10389129]

/lit/ only cares when a white guy dies... Thanks /pol/.

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[Anonymous No.10389144]

>/lit/ only cares when a *white guy dies*
I believe you mean
>/lit/ only cares when americas foremost prose stylist dies

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[Anonymous No.10389150]

>>10389144
>americas foremost prose stylist
You rang?

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[Anonymous No.10389209]

fini, enshrine thee in immortality


Et sic, tunc, etiam, etiam, aliquam, erat, esse, aliquando, in perpetuum

[Anonymous No.10389225]

>>10376653
>baka mods, are you just being obstinate at this point or are you truly this ignorant
They got the news that Mr.Gass was alerted for the first time, the existence of /lit/ and himself as something of a meme, the night he died, so it made them feel some type of way

[Anon of Miyamoto No.10389291]

Been meaning to read him for ages but I couldn't find an ebook of The Tunnel.
First time I come to this board in 2 years, see this thread, search for the ebook and an EPUB version exists. Yay!

[Anonymous No.10389361]

>>10366605
Thank god. Hopefully alliteration died with him.

[Anonymous No.10389375]

>>10366714
>gass
>classic
Now this is shitposting

[Anonymous No.10390291]

So was Gass a phallocrat like Updike?

[Anonymous No.10391072]

check em

[Anonymous No.10391555]

>>10389291
There is a PDF somewhere... I have it

[Anonymous No.10391758]

>>10390291
what's Updike

[Anonymous No.10392583]

>>10391555
checked

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[Anonymous No.10392843]

HOLY FUCK WHAT HE FUCKING DIED?!
I THOUGHT THIS WAS A FUCKING TROLL THREAD

[Anonymous No.10392851]

>>10389375
If it rhymes it must be true times

[Anonymous No.10392917]

>>10388014
>when the Cartesian Sonata hits

[Anonymous No.10393437]

>>10389291
It isn't worth it. Read Omensetter instead.

[Anonymous No.10393613]

You will never have a bro-mance as deep and as lovely as Billy Brapps and Stanley Elkin.

[Anonymous No.10393977]

>>10388517
Another Gass for y'all.

[Anonymous No.10393992]

>>10366605
I only just heard about it today. How the fuck did nobody talk about this (haven't been on here in months)? I was busy with exams, but I wasn't that busy. I was glancing over the usual channels, as I sometimes do when taking a break from my studies or a shit in the toilet. Not a peep about him.

[Anonymous No.10394252]

>>10393992
He didn't get a sticky, nor a Wikipedia recent deaths mention.
>mfw
>>10388474

[Anonymous No.10394333]

This is really sad for me because Gass was one of the first authors I discovered in college. It also hits quite literally close to home because I later found out that Gass taught at Wash U at the same time my grandfather (1969 - death in 1993) was a professor of Humanities there. Gass lived in the (much more affluent) Parkview neighborhood, which begins quite literally 0.01 miles from where my dad and his side of the family grew up (and my aunt still lives to this day now that my grandmother is gone too). And I grew up just another 1000 feet down from that house. My uncle used to have a home over in Parkview. She could have literally been neighbors with Gass. Gass' wife Mary even made a book about the architecture of homes in the neighborhood (most are at least 80 - 110 years old).

I never got to meet my grandfather and ask him about stories of if he met Gass. I never got the chance to reach out to Gass himself. He was such an impactful writer, but it's special to realize how impactful he and his family were to the community around them.

[Anonymous No.10394461]

>>10394333
nice, and checked

[Anonymous No.10395061]

>>10392843
Gas

[Anonymous No.10395093]

>>10394252
>He didn't get a sticky, nor a Wikipedia recent deaths mention

A shame on both counts. He's certainly as worthy as any of the names on Wikipedia right now

On the plus side, this thread has been going for six days now. Maybe it can make the full week (another 22 hours or so)

[Anonymous No.10395202]

[Anonymous No.10395514]

[Anonymous No.10395611]

>>10394333
Nice blogpost, faggot.
Just shitposting, sorry. Thank you for sharing your story. I envy you.

[Anonymous No.10395625]

the gass passed

[Anonymous No.10395953]

>>10383807
Kys you fucking spastic

[Anonymous No.10396172]

>>10394333
Nobody cares nerd

[Anonymous No.10396329]

>>10396172
>>10395953
For each comment to take up the same proverbial space, his appears to be much more valuable and worthy, interesting and of merit, relevant.

[Anonymous No.10396519]

Gass Gass Gass
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atuFSv2bLa8

[Anonymous No.10396609]

>>10394333
Parkview is beautiful. I have fond memories of walking through it during a short visit years ago. Before going there I never had any idea such a neighborhood could even exist in a place as dismal as St. Louis.

[Anonymous No.10396868]

>>10366605
He'll never stretch his legs again =(

[Anonymous No.10397160]

>>10396868
You were supposed to save this for Bloom's death.

[Anonymous No.10397165]

>>10397160
He's not Bloom? All these fat fucks look the same to me. Sorry I don't actually read books or criticism I'm just here for the memes.

[Anonymous No.10397939]

>>10383807
You haven't read a single story of his. Even his most "postmodern" work, The Tunnel, is still extremely consistent.

[Anonymous No.10398183]

>>10396609
Honestly, Saint Louis still is nice, but it's being getting fucked up by neo-liberal dipshit policies since the 50s. My grandparent's house was in an area where realtors blockbust the neighborhood by getting black people to move in but it never really caught on and our neighborhood (yes even with black people, shocking!) remained a damn strong community. But like just north of us because a meth/crack shithole. There was literally a crackhouse there. And like this is all in close proximity to the Loop and Wash U. It's insane. It's been getting worse recently too, there was a shooting a street down from us the other year. Protesters trashed the Loop this year after the cop's verdict came out.

But yeah, Saint Louis the most corrupt midwest city next to Chicago. We're not at peak Chicago crime levels yet (the worst was literally during the 80s and early 90s with the crack epidemic, gangs, and the straw-camel-back in regard to public housing projects just being in complete decay and chaos). Speaking of public housing, look at what happened to Pruitt-Igoe. Shocking.

Public housing projects have always been fascinating to me because of how the communities develop within and evolve over time, but also in terms of how the cities manage and usually let them decay. They've had enormous impact on modern day culture (especially music, though moreso in the UK) and the political climate.

[Anonymous No.10398274]

>>10396329
Sperg-tastic post. Shame that a cunt bitch like you still draws breath, and Gass has passed.

[Anonymous No.10398290]

>>10380635
His essays are genuinely better than his fiction

[Anonymous No.10398299]

>>10396329
fucking autist fuck off

[Anonymous No.10398305]

>>10383807
mate you havent read a page of postmodern fiction

[Anonymous No.10398746]

THE GASS HAS PASSED

[Anonymous No.10398770]

>>10366605
Didn't want to believe it - you know how someone will post a picture of an old author like Pynchon with "RIP" just to shitpost - but it's genuinely sad that Gass is gone now.

[Anonymous No.10398802]

>>10366605
Shit he was 93 goddamn

[Anonymous No.10398809]

>>10366884
> implying Pynchon wasn't actually a secret collective of writers working anonymously and using domain free 1940s military photographs to identify themselves with
> implying they aren't already dead

[Anonymous No.10398978]

>been a week
>still no sticky

[Anonymous No.10399182]

>>10398978
Only need a sticky when there are like 40 threads about it

[Anonymous No.10399777]

Who will be the next luminary on the order of Gass to pass away? I think McCarthy

[Anonymous No.10400305]

>>10398274
>>10398299
For each comment to take up the same proverbial space, his appears to be much more valuable and worthy, interesting and of merit, relevant.

[Anonymous No.10400570]

America's foremost horseradish

[Anonymous No.10400574]

>>10367242

Fuck that I'd rather listen to The Dead C.

[Anonymous No.10401148]

>>10399777
>Cormac McCarthy (age 84)
>Thomas Pynchon (age 80)
>Joseph McElroy (age 87)
>Toni Morrison (age 86)
>Harold Bloom (age 87)

not looking good for the next few years anon

[Anonymous No.10402253]

>>10375623
That is the purplest shit.

[Anonymous No.10402264]

>>10402253
>everything must be beige prose

plen

[Anonymous No.10402267]

>>10401148
IF MCCARTHY DOESN'T FINISH THE PASSENGER I'M GONNA DIG UP HIS BODY AND KILL HIM AGAIN

IF PYNCHON DOESN'T FINISH THAT RUMORED JAPANESE NOVEL IM GONNA DIG UP HIS BODY AND KILL HIM AGAIN

IF A DECENT PUBLISHER DOESN'T REPUBLISH LOOKOUT CARTRIDGE AT AFFORDABLE PRICES IM GONNA KILL JOSEPH MCELROY

>toni morrison

>harold bloom

[Anonymous No.10402381]

>>10393977
Another rare Gass.

>>10399777
I'm guessing Barth. It will be a very bad day for me when that happens, but considering how ignored he is now I might not even find out for days after it happens.

[Anonymous No.10402400]

>>10402381
Going on vacation early tomorrow morning so I'll just dump my last couple pictures. Got this one from his daughter's Twitter.

[Anonymous No.10402413]

>>10402400

[Anonymous No.10402424]

>>10402253
you learned that purple prose was bad in school because you were being taught competent writing that could help you write coherently for a corporation, not to attempt to create art.

[Anonymous No.10402429]

>>10402413
Last one. Not actually a picture of Gass, but it felt right. Stay strong anons, we'll see him soon, on the other side of oblivion.

[Anonymous No.10402430]

>>10402381
Im so glad Dalkey have been republishing Barth's works in gorgeous editions

[Anonymous No.10403163]

>>10402267
>IM GONNA KILL JOSEPH MCELROY

Reported

[Anonymous No.10403215]

>>10402413
The coke dispenser is the most /lit/ thing in this pic

[Anonymous No.10403422]

>>10366605

>>>>>>153315200

[Anonymous No.10403463]

>>10403215
>not the carpet, the cage, or the golden rods protruding from the vase

[Anonymous No.10403470]

>>10402413
Who's the guy to the left? He looks so familiar.

[Anonymous No.10403493]

>>10403470
kinda looks like john barth, but I dont think it is. It might be the platonic form of a woodshop teacher

[Anonymous No.10403509]

>>10402253
I hate people like you.

You know nothing.
You're no better than an idiot spewing "show, don't tell."

[Anonymous No.10403526]

>>10403493
Yeah, it's definitely him, thanks

[Anonymous No.10403601]

>>10401148
>Cormac McCarthy (age 84)
>Thomas Pynchon (age 80)
>Joseph McElroy (age 87)
>Toni Morrison (age 86)
>Harold Bloom (age 87)
Well, we know at least one of them is getting lavish obituaries and a Wikipedia recent deaths mention.

[Anonymous No.10403622]

>>10403601
and the odds of them getting a /lit/ sticky:
McCarthy: 20%
Pynchon: 49,000%
McElroy: 7%
Morrison: -1,000,000%
Bloom: 1,564%

[Anonymous No.10405218]

>>10403622
If we don't get one for Bloom we should ask hiro to shut us down.

[Anonymous No.10405490]

>>10403509
>You're no better than an idiot spewing "show, don't tell."

A better general rule would be "suggest, don't explain".

[Anonymous No.10405528]

>>10403622
Imagine the mods only give one to Morrison just to fuck with us.

[Anonymous No.10406946]

>>10405490
>>10403509
show dont tell is generally good advice. (and is common for movie advice)

[Anonymous No.10407532]

>>10403622
Yup

[Anonymous No.10408256]

>>10403509
This desu, if you hate purple prose, you need your library card revoked

[Anonymous No.10409241]

>>10403509
I hate people like you.

You know nothing.
You're no better than an idiot spewing about 'idiots spewing "show, don't tell."'

[Anonymous No.10409248]

>>10383807
how can someone speak so much yet say so little

[Anonymous No.10410554]

>>10383807
>no art for me please, it's too pretentious, I'll have craft thank you very much

[Anonymous No.10412191]

Fart

[Anonymous No.10413564]

Where my Gassmasks at?

[Anonymous No.10413572]

Jesus let this thread die, sick of looking at this slimy count, God rest his soul.

[Anonymous No.10413614]

>>10409241
t. someone who isn't published, and never will be

[Anonymous No.10413665]

>>10413614
t. someone who incorrectly thinks I am trying to get published without realizing I am a superior STEM Chad only attempting to absorb some lit trivia to impress liberal art tinder sluts

[Anonymous No.10413796]

>>10413665
t. someone who will work as a fucking city surveyor

>no one told him creative success if the biggest sign of genius IQ

Why are you lying?

[Anonymous No.10413806]

>>10413665
yikes... how empty. Cute in a way, like a toddler who doesn't know it's about to trip.

But... damn. How did that happen?

[Anonymous No.10413863]

>>10413796
>>10413806
t. someones who doesnt know I actually am not the original poster who was being responded to but made up that Stem Chad story and will get published (self)

[Anonymous No.10413942]

>>10413863
t. someone who doesnt know I am the original poster who was being responded to but now knows and I am actually a Stem Chad who is only attempting to absorb some lit trivia to impress liberal art tinder sluts but I have already been published in three (3) different peer review journals

[Anonymous No.10413968]

>>10413942
t. someone who doesn't know that I was the actual poster questioning purple prose, literary advice, and publications to merely showcase the fact that I -- the mastermind in question --just so happen to be Stem Chad, as well as the recipient of a national award for one of my published stories. This affords me many luxuries, such as: entrancing tinder sluts with my arcane knowledge of Riemann mathematics, and just how it relates to the augmented intertexuality that manifests within reality in recent postmodern pieces, showcasing the ever-elusive chase of human beings reaching for art that properly captures the brutality of chance, petty frustrations, and the absurdity of aging; having my work read by tens of people; dropping truth bombs like it's nothing on here.

Gotta go now. Gonna tap the 17th slut this weekend.

[Anonymous No.10414012]

>>10413614
>>10413665
>>10413796
>>10413863
>>10413942
>>10413968

This is the fourth fucking time this week.
Fuck off, Stem Chad.

[Anonymous No.10414013]

>>10366605
That's the look you give when you need to take a wet and greasy, sloppy shit.

[Anonymous No.10414436]

>>10366605
Why did he always look so sad?

[Anonymous No.10415518]

bumbby

[Anonymous No.10416215]

>>10366605
His spirit is still with us as long as we keep this thread alive (since the mods, out of pure meanness, refuse to sticky this).

[Anonymous No.10416294]

>>10416215

We've reached bump limit, so the thread will slip away now just like he did

[Anonymous No.10416338]

>>10416294
:(

[Anonymous No.10416370]

>>10416338

He will not reach the final death until he is no longer remembered

[Anonymous No.10416390]

>>10416215
>His spirit is still with us as long as we keep this thread alive
dont worry, Gass would appreciate the irony that this post is the one that put it over bump limit

[Anonymous No.10417158]

RIP