Gravity

[Anonymous No.11854595]

So I'm reading this Gravity's Rainbow meme because you all posture like it's high culture. Then I read this passage today. What the actual fuck, /lit/? You posture as some purist trad intellectuals but your meme trilogy is made up of a rapist, a fart fetishist, and whatever the fuck this is. Now I know why Pynchon hides his identity.

[Anonymous No.11854602]

>>11854595
You expect me to believe you actually made it that far into the book? There is a 0% chance you made it past page 25.

[Anonymous No.11854603]

This is worse than george rr martin

[Anonymous No.11854627]

>>11854603
george rawr martin

[Anonymous No.11854634]

>>11854595
lol imagine being offended by a book

[Anonymous No.11854658]

>>11854595
you got meme'd. read infinite jest next

[Anonymous No.11854659]

>>11854595
Heres your (you). Now fuck off and finish the book you fucking faggot fuck.

[Anonymous No.11854766]

>>11854602
Yeah, I wasted weeks on this shit. I kept asking you fucks if it's worth it and you kept saying yes. Now I'm here and I don't want to be.
>>11854658
>implying this is my first meme
IJ was way better so far. I don't get why Pynchon needs to try and be so edgy all the time.

[Anonymous No.11854770]

>>11854766
uhoh, somebody's not gonna make it

[Anonymous No.11854790]

>>11854770
I'm going to be one of the only retards on this board to finish the meme trilogy whether I like it or not

[Anonymous No.11854794]

>>11854790
wow, three whole books!

[Anonymous No.11854801]

>>11854595
What's the context to this? Does it have some thematic significance? I was not planning to read this, but if there's an interesting answer, I might reconsider.

[Anonymous No.11854822]

>>11854794
Three needlessly involved postmodern door-stoppers; I can tell you haven't read them because you would complain too.
>>11854801
It's not even an important part of the book as far as I can tell, although there's so many plots/characters who knows what's supposed to be important. Someone tell me what's important right now.

[Anonymous No.11854824]

>>11854801
>wasnt planning on reading one of the greatest books of all time

o-oh

[Anonymous No.11854830]

>>11854822
>too

but you havent even finished GR...

[Anonymous No.11854832]

>>11854595
>high culture
that's were you went wrong, you weren't memed into reading pinecone, you were memed into reading

[Anonymous No.11854836]

>>11854822
>Someone tell me what's important right now.
all of it

[Anonymous No.11854838]

>>11854824
why are these images so funny

[Anonymous No.11854846]

>>11854830
Yeah I'm in the middle of it, which is why I'm complaining. I've already read IJ, and I'm saving Ulysses for last because it's obviously going to be the best one.

[Anonymous No.11854852]

>>11854846
yeah and i finished it and im not

hmm

[Anonymous No.11854867]

>>11854595
>purist trad intellectuals
I've never thought of /lit/ as purist or trad you r/The_Donald newfag

[Anonymous No.11854878]

>>11854867
One of the most active threads on the board right now is about Hegel being the literal antichrist

[Anonymous No.11854902]

>>11854595
just took it off my reading list.

[Anonymous No.11854907]

The meme trilogy is just that, bait.

[Anonymous No.11854924]

>>11854595
When i was reading GR for the first time, i stoped even earlier, when Blicero and BDSM shit were introduced. But then continued after a few days. This chapter made me stop again and again i kept reading after some time. I genuinely don’t like these episodes but there are much more good things in this book.

[Anonymous No.11854927]

>>11854902
Just put it on mine so I'm not like this guy

[Anonymous No.11855048]

>>11854924
lol grow up

[Anonymous No.11855135]

Obviously lying. Why didn't you bail out like 150 pages earlier at the shit sewer scene?

[Anonymous No.11855167]

>>11855135
I'm NOT bailing out, but this shit is over the line. No classics should be allowed to have scat porn.

[Anonymous No.11855175]

>>11854801
It ties in with the themes of control, sex and death.

[Anonymous No.11855196]

>>11854595
>posture as some purist trad intellectuals
you just discovered that all the people who roleplay as tradition-loving canon defenders do not actually read, they just like the abstract idea of it. they type "start with the greeks" over and over again but if they ever followed their own advice they'd be scandalized when they discovered that aristophanes has all these jokes about assfucking and children's vaginas or that plato advocates radical gender equality and the eradication of the institution of the family.

[Anonymous No.11855205]

>>11855196
Tumblr
Don't return.
This is beyond reddit bad. This is bad, bad. This is so bad, it can't be bait bad. This is so bad, you'd be a more functional member of society if you were concussed with a brick badly enough to get a TBI.
Consider physician assisted suicide.

[Anonymous No.11855308]

>>11855205
why are simultaneously complaining about reddit and doing a turbo-reddit comedic exasperation routine? consider writing an actual post faggot

[Anonymous No.11855385]

>>11855167
Why

[Anonymous No.11855504]

>>11855205
Epic

[Anonymous No.11855542]

>>11855196
Or maybe the trad intellectuals don't read shitty tripe like your 'meme trilogy'.

It's almost like there's two kinds of people on /lit/, the genuine thinkers and the bugbrained pseuds!

[Anonymous No.11855568]

>>11855542
>Or maybe the trad intellectuals don't read shitty tripe like your 'meme trilogy'.
well maybe that's why i provided examples from the bedrock of western civilization instead, or is the chad trad also above plato and the greek dramatists

[Anonymous No.11855651]

>>11854846
Are you gonna get offended by the public masturbation scene in Ulysses too?

[Anonymous No.11855671]

>>11854766
lmao loser
have fun being a dfw faggot for the rest of your life

[Anonymous No.11855683]

>>11854924
>I genuinely don’t like these episodes
Blicero is one of the most beautifully written characters in the book dumbass

[Anonymous No.11855860]

Just wait until you reach the chapter on Franz Pökler

[Anonymous No.11856021]

>>11854822
>Meme trilogy
>Ulysses
>Postmodern
lmao look at this retard

[Anonymous No.11856044]

>>11854595
Jesus that was painful to read. I've read sonic fanfiction that was less disgusting than that.

[Anonymous No.11856520]

>>11855860
You mean Kozo Fuyutsuki?

[Anonymous No.11856538]

>>11854595
High culture is esoteric (inaccessible to the masses) by definition. Neither "/lit/" nor Pynchon "posture" as "purist trad intellectuals". All you're seeing is what it means for a novel to actually be "difficult" without resorting to cheap obscurantism, and by extension the difference between "I like to read lol, Pynchon is good" and actually reading and understanding a great author on a level other than "his prose is good and I really related to the main character!".

>>11856044
This passage is supposed to be disgusting. Pinecone is doing a good job of it.

[Anonymous No.11856546]

>>11855683
It's still OK to find him despicable and to think his antics are disgusting and/or immoral.

[Anonymous No.11856550]

>>11854822
>postmodern
Ulysses isn't postmodern

>there's so many plots/characters who knows what's supposed to be important
So you're actually admitting to being a brainlet

[Anonymous No.11856688]

>>11854595
reads like that joyce letter. why are writers into scat?

[Anonymous No.11856692]

>>11854602
this happens pretty early, actually

[Anonymous No.11856711]

>>11856550
I thought that was the whole point, GR is supposed to be complicated and hard to read by design. There are websites that walk you passage by passage through the whole book because so many people struggle with it. When you act like it's an easy read, it only makes you look like a psude.

[Anonymous No.11856731]

>>11856021
>>11856550
whats the difference between modernist and postmodernist

[Anonymous No.11856738]

I miss my dearest samantha

[Anonymous No.11856748]

>>11854822
>Three needlessly involved postmodern door-stoppers

[Anonymous No.11856749]

your daily reminder to treat pynchonfags on /lit/ the way you would deathgrips/swans/spiderland posters on /mu/

[Anonymous No.11856755]

>>11856749
harold bloom likes pynchon

[Anonymous No.11856758]

So to get here you had to already have gotten past the acid trip part where whoever it is goes down into a shit filled sewer pipe to avoid being anally raped by a group of black men. But now you're offended.

[Anonymous No.11856775]

>>11856758
why do people think crawling through a sewer is worse than scat porn? HE LICKS SHIT OUT OF HER ASSHOLE.

[Anonymous No.11856789]

>>11855542
!

[Anonymous No.11857227]

>>11856775
>HE LICKS SHIT OUT OF HER ASSHOLE.
It's not real dude

[Anonymous No.11858053]

>>11854595
based

[Anonymous No.11858085]

>>11856755
The modern """semite""" is a lechery-promoting degenerate. Of course he would.

[Anonymous No.11858090]

>>11857227
big if true

[Anonymous No.11858154]

the book's beautiful, I cannot understand how you can complain about a passage without looking at it as a whole, there clearly some very good moments before it. Not to be elitist, but some literature/film/art/etc. is not for everyone. And I know you didn't fully delve into GR, you skimmed the hundred pages and once you came into the meme part you just HAD to make a thread.

[Anonymous No.11858182]

>>11858154
Why is the only justification "other parts were good" and "u didn't read it"? I didn't even know the meme was legit till I actually read it. I thought it was like the McCarthy frijoles posts.

[Anonymous No.11858246]

>>11858182
I respect if you don't like it. A book, film, or music has its components and I think it is only when it is a whole that it makes sense, but the good parts along the journey is why I really like GR, the bad parts only were good in context, but bad by components. I think parts like those should not ruin your experience.
If you are OP, you sound like you favor a lot of "purist trad intellectuals" of which Pynchon and Wallace do not give that image, intellectual as new wave french cinema maybe.