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>tfw no Pynchon thread

>> No.13936904

>>13936364
SNEED

>> No.13938098

Maybe the real The Crying of Lot 49 was the friends we made along the way

>> No.13938103

Formerly tfw yes Pynchon thread

>> No.13938105

>>13936364
Gravity's Sneedbow.

>> No.13938128

>>13936364
I'll put this feed and seed in the gravitys rainbow cookbook (formerly the mason and dixon cookbook)

>> No.13938133
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13938133

>Sneed?
Sneed.

>> No.13938137

Fuckin gold thread guys, I hope it's still up when I get back from washing cars for wops

>> No.13938166
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13938166

>>13938105
Chuck's Suck and Fuck Bow.

>> No.13938952

How do I read Pynchon?
Am I supposed to search for every obscure pop culture/high culture reference?

>> No.13938972

>>13938952
>Am I supposed to search for every obscure pop culture/high culture reference?
If you want to lol. Good luck with that.

>> No.13939075

>>13938952
no, just pretend they're made up, they might as well be

>> No.13939089
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13939089

>>13936364
>tfw currently reading Gravity’s Rainbow
Last time I made it to page 300 before I quit

>> No.13939231

>>13939089
imagine being too big of a bitch to finish Part 3
some of the most sublime parts are just after where you stopped, pleb

>> No.13939532

>>13936364
I finally decided to dig into Bleeding Edge. I am on chapter 5, does it ever leave the gossipy soccer mom bull shit? It reminds me much of Vineland with all of its banal and mundane details, but he seems to be trying to make those details interesting and topical this time around, instead of just using them for pace setting and mood. I am not sure I am going to make it, sorry Tommy.

>> No.13940055

>>13936364
>he thinks there's no Pynchon thread

>> No.13940061

>>13938952
It's fun to do it when something piques your interest but it will take you months to finish GR if you try to look up everything

>> No.13940070

>>13939231
Hey he's giving it another shot don't be too hard on him.

>>13939089
It's worth it, Apuposter. I feel like it took me 400 pages to really get invested but by the time I finished I had to force myself not to just re-read it immediately because I have a lot of other books I want to read. Sometime next year I'll read it again.

>> No.13940154

i dont get the sneed meme

>> No.13940164

>>13940154
The sign is a subtle joke. The shop is called "Sneed's Feed & Seed", where feed and seed both end in the sound "-eed", thus rhyming with the name of the owner, Sneed. The sign says that the shop was "Formerly Chuck's", implying that the two words beginning with "F" and "S" would have ended with "-uck", rhyming with "Chuck". So, when Chuck owned the shop, it would have been called "Chuck's Feeduck and Seeduck".

>> No.13940222

>>13940070
>Sometime next year I'll read it again.
Try the audio book, the guy who reads it does a great job, I got a fair amount from listening to it that I missed when reading it. That one made me a convert on audio books, they are now my standard for the second go of a book, keeps my limited reading time devoted to things I have never read and makes note taking a breeze. Think I do need to sit down and read it proper again, been a few years since my last read.

>> No.13940619

>>13940222
Checked

Glad it's still alive.

>> No.13940634

>>13940222
Does he sing the songs?

>> No.13940722

I miss this nigga like you would not believe.

>> No.13940729

>>13940634
If memory serves he sort of sings them, he more suggests they are sung through rhythm and inflection, he needs to maintain the flow of the book after all. He does the same when a woman speaks, he does not really try to sound feminine, he just adjusts his speaking patterns to be more feminine instead of talking in a higher voice like most book readers. He is really good.

He did the book twice, the old version is audio cassette and very noisy, there are some obvious edits, mid sentence retakes and the like, so best to hunt down the newer version which is clean and the best audio book I have yet to hear.

>> No.13941405

>>13940222
thanks for the advice but I have a mortal aversion to audiobooks

>> No.13941414

>>13940164
But why has it been one of the longest running 4chan memes without signs of ever stopping?

>> No.13941432

>>13941414
Because it's based

>> No.13941486

im still an undergrad but I am auditing a graduate course where GR is one of the texts we're reading. very excited to go through with it, for the third time, in something like a book club setting.

>> No.13941668

>>13941486
what are your peers' takes on it?

>> No.13941892

>>13941668
haven't started yet. next week.

>> No.13941969

>>13941414
>But why has it been one of the longest running 4chan memes without signs of ever stopping?
Because it's the same as the Simpsons itself.

>> No.13942050

>>13941414
So you weren't around for baneposting and "win one Internet"
Desu

>> No.13942187

>>13942050
That one is not really going any more, is it? Can not recall the last time I saw it.

>> No.13942776

>>13938952
S11E05