Pynchon is just ironic Rabelais. I just had this thought but I haven't read many books by Pynchon so I figured that I'd share to see what you think of it.

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Anonymous Wed Mar 31 16:54:17 2021 No.17915158 [Reply] [Original]

Pynchon is just ironic Rabelais.
I just had this thought but I haven't read many books by Pynchon so I figured that I'd share to see what you think of it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 31 16:58:20 2021 No.17915172 >>17915158 More like pessimistic Rabelais. Rabelais wrote during a period of cultural optimism, wheras Pynchon wrote during a period of cultural decline and decadence.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 31 16:59:30 2021 No.17915179 >I haven't read Pynchon or Rabelais but I'm going to make a shitty joke about them anyway to shit up the board for everyone else

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 31 20:28:58 2021 No.17916248 >>17915172 damn, if the 60s-70s was a period of cultural decline where are we now?

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 31 20:30:19 2021 No.17916253 >>17916248 A sewer

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