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How do you move on after finishing a masterpiece?

Just finished IJ and everything I've read since feels banal

>> No.13911968

>>13911965
>banal
Yr tryig 2 hrd

>> No.13911972

>>13911965
by not being 15

>> No.13911984

>>13911965
Have you read the books that influence it? Hamlet? Odyssey? The Brothers Karamazov? You could also read some other works by DFW. His essays are pretty spectacular.

>> No.13912097

>>13911965
The absolute state of estate shills

>> No.13912122

>>13911984
>books that influenced it
>lists hamlet
>doesn't list any pynchon, not even gravity's rainbow
brother, why

>> No.13912695

>>13911965
suffering from this same problem. I'm just looking for other masterpieces to let me down gently from that gigamasterpiece i just finished.
Frankly, true geniuses are just few and far between, and thankfully, one can return to already read masterpieces and glean more and more from them each time, provided we have gained some perspective during the interim.