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14673031 No.14673031 [Reply] [Original]

>"And then they realized they were no longer a countable series of jokes: they were ... an Infinite Jest."

Is this seriously the ending? What a hack.

>> No.14673142

>>14673031
That's not how infinite jest ends.

Don Gately wakes up from a bender on a beach during low tide

>> No.14673226

>And as he put the strange substance, packaged ever so delicately in tobacco paper, to his pallid lips, he knew he could never go back to being an English professor. He was, and forever would be ... a stoner

Fuck you lit what the hell

>> No.14673239
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14673239

>Oedipa sat back to await the crying of lot 49
Nice 'goof', Tom...

>> No.14673264

>and this, my friends, is my doctrine. remember it as it is very important, you might say it's so important you should take it as your bible
really jesus? what a hack

>> No.14673280

>>14673239
>Slothrop sat back to await Gravity's Rainbow
>Stencil sat back to await V.
>Prairie sat back to await Vineland
Why does he keep doing this?

>> No.14673282

>>14673280
Pynchon is waiting for you to sit back and await his next work.

>> No.14673289

>"And then they realized they were no longer preemptively persuaded: they were ... retroactively refuted"

>> No.14673297

>>14673264
>I bet you feel as glad as a lark
>Now that you've finished the Gospel of Mark
People worship this shit

>> No.14673309

>>14673031
>But that's just the way it goes here in The Ordinary Business of Life: A History of Economics
Jesus Christ

>> No.14673319

>The prince came out of his seizure with a glaze over his eyes. He was unable to answer to even the most basic questions.
>"Alas!" cried Aglaya "he has truly become The Idiot!"
This is a joke, right?

>> No.14673348

“And so the jokes, having been told mostly in sequential order, were actually, although not purposefully, and but not exactly without anyone’s doing, an infinite jest.”

>> No.14673356

>>14673297
>feeling like you need to puke? the cure is the gospel of luke!

>> No.14673409

>>14673289
kek

>> No.14673615

>>14673031
>Now follow the bouncing ball, sing into Gravity’s Rainbow
cringe

>> No.14673740

>and Ender yelled "Well there ya have it folks well a final score of 11-0! They just won Enders Game!"
you guys said this book was good

>> No.14673879

And then Slothrop woke up, feeling the gravity of the rainbow, and realized that he never did the Kenosha Kid after all...

The End

>> No.14673884

>>14673348
kek accurate

>> No.14673915
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14673915

And then the Angel related to Muhammad (PBUH): "This is the Quran".

>> No.14673923

>And but so Joelle Van Dyne, the P.G.O.A.T, former NFL punter's living partner, best-friends-party-wrecker, acid-receptacle-extraordinare, sat in her room shoving a Big Red Soda bottle up her vagina, vowing to purposefully ruin its tightness for anyone other than Himself, whom she realized with painful regret, had played upon her not a lengthy joke, prolonged prank, or extended hoax, but an Infinite Jest.

What the fuck did he mean by this?

>> No.14674197

>The World was all before them, where to choose
>Thir place of rest, and Providence thir guide:
>They hand in hand with wandring steps and slow,
>Through Eden took thir solitarie way,
>Pausing but to rue for Paradise lost.

>> No.14675420

>>14673031
>it was at that moment he realized that the poet had composed a canticle for leibowitz.
>it was when seeing the child kiss the finger of the priest, that he understood the power and the glory.
>and at the camp of the danes, king alfred sang the ballad of the white horse.

>> No.14675579

>and thats the last I ever saw, of Moby Dick.

>> No.14675585

>>14673031
>conflating uncountability with the infinite
Unforgivable pseud error

>> No.14675634

>>14673031
>heh... so the real Infinite Jest was the friendship made along the way
stopped reading and applauded

>> No.14675638

>So we finna some sort o'... Slaughterhouse Five?
woah

>> No.14676334

>>14675634
Based

>> No.14676365

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>> No.14676403

>>14673923
7.9 / 10, I would like to see Madame Psychosis bust her own cooter with a bottle

>> No.14676442

>Bhahafaffagagsfsfssggjsjjsjjbzhsjqkbbjjjsvhaahbsbshsshabsbsbsshshshjsbl Finnegan's wake
Yeah I'm thinking he's a hack