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Happy birthday, Pinecone!
May you stick around long enough to publish that civil war novel you worked on for so long.

>> No.11119522

>>11119486
HBD Tommy P

>> No.11119621

HAPPY BIRTHDAY PYNCHSTER

>> No.11120153
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bumping with birb

>> No.11120160

>>11120153
meme animal xD

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how do we know is he even alive

>> No.11120480

>>11120473
How do we know paris is real? Exactly. We don't. does that answer your question?

>> No.11120497

>>11120480
i live in paris. we can argue over the concept of reality, but I'm asking about the reality in which paris is considered to be real. You can come here, you can check. how can we check on mr. pynchon

>> No.11120564

>>11119486
Holy shit I didn't know I shared a birthday with Thomas Pynchon. Time to read some more of Gravity's Rainbow. Happy birthday pinchster.

>> No.11120575

>>11120497
You live in "Paris," you say. But is it Paris, France? Paristown in USA? Paris Hilton? pah... I know a Mr. Pynchon, who lives just down the road. Can you say that he isn't the novelist, or the sailor, or the man with the bag over his head?

If you can say it isn't, then you are mighty presumptuous, and I will wish to cease conversing.

>> No.11120631

>>11120575
i actually don't live in paris. i've fooled you and i've fooled you good

>> No.11120633

>>11120575
Just because he doesn't like being interviewed or photographed doesn't mean his life is a complete mystery.

Last I heard, he was still living in Manhattan.

>> No.11120639

>>11120633
>Last I heard, he was still living in Manhattan.
No, he loves down my street in Adelaide.

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Happy birthday pynchon!

>> No.11122017

What Pynchon book should Imstart in celebration?
I've read GR, IV, and V. GR was the best.

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>>11119486

Happy Birthday, Tom! If you are lurking here please give us a sign!

>> No.11122050

>>11119486

Christ all mighty would I enjoy a civil war book from pinecone.

also since we all know you post here, Happy Birthday old man, thanks for all the wonderful stories.

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>>11122040
>lurking here
>here

Sure thing bucko

>> No.11122318

>le zany LSD man xD

>> No.11122401

Pleb here, what's so special about Pynchon's writing? How does he encompass postmodernism?

>> No.11122492

>>11119486
So when's the novella of the 22st century detailing the Japanese insurance salesman coming out Tommy?

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>>11122040

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>>11122606

>> No.11122873

>>11119486
Happy birthday you old freak.
Reading GR right now and wow this guy's a much bigger pervert than I expected.

>> No.11122910

>>11120639
How is Adelaide? Thinking of moving there

>> No.11122951

>>11122017
What's with this obsessive abbreviation of every Pynchons work. Is there any other author who gets so many of his books oonstantly abbreviated by his readers than pynch. the names aren't that long, you write out every other name, so what's the problem

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>>11122401
encompass? he was its real father

>> No.11123040

>>11119486
WOW OH SHIT

>> No.11123058

>>11119486
happy birthday you sick son of a bitch
>be me
>wandering around the swerve of shore and bend of bay
>Also with my sacre pere and maire dautel, if you know what i mean heheheh
>I gave up trying to beat super smash brothers
>Things were feeling crooked
>Really need to scratch my ass
>So? What are ya trying to get to?
>This is meant to be a message of sorts to Thomas Pynchon, who I've seen browse this board himself
>That is certainly a bold statement, coming from myself.
wait. this isn't the writer to finnegans wake. fuck.

>> No.11123067

>>11122951
literally every book on the planet gets abbreviated that way if it's more than one word

>> No.11123072

>>11122951
smhtbhfam

>> No.11123076

>>11122910
Cold right now, but the weather is always very dry (as in, not humid). Housing is expensive, so I'm still living at dad's at 20 with a small promise of rent. Only cheap places are dozens of km out of town, in shitty rough places like Elizabeth, where I'm sure you'd just blow your money on petrol (if you have a car).

Every young person here shits on the place, but it's better than other cities. I'll compare it to Melbourne - it's better than there simply because the CBD isn't a massive, loud pseudfest. In fact, our city is a quiet, small, pleasant place but there's not that much to do. Drinking out is okay, lots of people go to Sugar or Exeter, but nearly everywhere is uneventful and expensive for what it is. I like Melbourne for its cheap, indie bookstores with huge range. But there's too much growth - heaps of homeless dudes with their dogs freezing on the street, while they spend a shit tonne on other shit like "gamer fests" for tweenagers.

However, our metro are anal here, most drivers try to throw you off if you don't pay, while no one even swipes their ticket in Melbourne. So, come here if you don't mind blowing your money on life's necessities, but don't want to live in a pseud hell-hole.

It's really up to your circumstances. Are you well-off with a career, or are you a studying babby 4channer like moi? Where you from? That might also change my answers.

>> No.11123086

>>11123076
I live in Canberra atm, I'm 23. I study online which is good and work in security so I just get to sit at a desk all day which let's me read and write so it's pretty useful.
Canberra just sucks dick like everywhere in Australia, I'm thinking of moving somewhere remote I've always liked SA so thought I'd maybe give it a try

>> No.11123091

>>11119486
>civil war
As long as it isn't the american one, I'm interested

>> No.11123113 [DELETED] 

I would make a formal happy birthday to you, but loose lips sink ships, eh pynchon?

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>>11123086
If you can, try move to Kangaroo Island. There's no jobs there (just like any remote place) but it would be awesome to live on a property there. It's beautiful and pristine with a great history. I read pic related a month ago and really want to go visit when I have time. KI was the meeting place of both British and French explorers, so it was one of the last places in the world to be "explored' by the Europeans.

Can you work at home with your job? I'm envious coz I really wanna move somewhere remote too. If you don't like the idea of KI, I know people who live in Macclesfield/Meadows, and it's really nice there too.

>> No.11123142

I could've sworn I just heard edd ed n eddy music playing in the background, did anyone else just have this experience themselves?

>> No.11123149

>>11123142
I'm listening to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5sDWBdeqO4

>> No.11123162

Happy birthday, Thomas Pynchon! I just got a pie slammed into my face by the ever famous MOTHMAN! Whaddya thinka that, Tommy, remember your friend Andy? Well I'm going to eat him, I am going to make Colvin sausage!

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New novel when?

>> No.11123614

>>11123565
>she gave up on his shortest, easiest work
What a fucking pleb.

>> No.11123709

Best living author

>> No.11123973

>>11123565
Next year.

>> No.11124270

Should i read IV before V?

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>>11123973
Capped

>> No.11124945

Why is there a chunk of his head missing?

>> No.11125624

>>11124887
Gee, I sure do hope I can finish it on time.

>> No.11126294

>>11124270
Four before five.

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>>11119486
Happy birthday you absolute legend. Your novels brought me back into serious reading & lit crit, and I've become a much more well-adjusted person as a result. I wish you a wonderful year, and many more wonderful years to come.

>> No.11126803

Whats Pynchon's stance on capitalism and consumerism?

>> No.11126911

Thanks for all the birthday wishes, everyone! I hope you enjoy my next novel, should be out sometime next year.

--Tom :^)

>> No.11126924

>>11126803
Big fan

>> No.11126931

>>11126911
What's it about

>> No.11127177

>>11122040
Here, check this V.

>> No.11127512

Happy belated birthday, Tom

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SAbO1_kzYA

>> No.11127584

Happy b day T dawg

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Happy birthday TP. Have a macaroon.

>> No.11128354

>>11126924
lmao

>> No.11128580

The funny thing is there is a less-than-impossible chance that one of the anons acting as Pynchon itt is actually Pynchon.

>> No.11128647

>>11128580
I really hope everyone's just playing along...

>> No.11128670

>>11126803
He's a big supporter if capitalism

>> No.11129136

>>11128647
What's the matter anon, you don't want to talk to Pynchie-poo?

>> No.11129146

>>11128580
why would he spend his bday on /lit of all places?
thread be gone in a day or two anyway.
Im not saying hes never been here tho, im actually sure he was.

>> No.11129158

>>11126803
Nuthin' wrong with being a luddite

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>>11119486
sorry I missed your birthday

uhh… do you have any weed?

>> No.11130231

Pynchon is dead, probably

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>>11119486
>>11128580
Little Brain
>Pynchon is lurking.
Regular Brain
>Pynchon posted, pretending to be an anon wishing him a happy birthday.
Big Brain
>Pynchon posted an ironic response to the birthday wishes.
Bigger Brain
>Pynchon posted a sincere response to the birthday wishes.
Even Bigger Brain
>Pynchon was OP.
Biggest Brain
>Pynchon has been Jeff Magnum Died for Your Sins the whole time.

Happy belated birthday, you namefagging fuck.

>> No.11131285

DOMAS BINCHN

>> No.11131312

Happy bday!

>> No.11131430

>>11130385
Ascended Brain
>we were Pynchon all along