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DFW personal annotated copy of BLOOD MERIDIAN

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>> No.20463107

>>20463099
>circles a comma
pseud

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how much?

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>> No.20463131

>>20463127
>circles page numbers
pseud

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>> No.20463156

Man DFW was such a noble soul

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Do people truly require this to achieve greater understanding of a book?

>> No.20463164

>>20463147
>annotating a biography

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>> No.20463172

>>20463102
Lmao he dabbed on Corncob hard with that portrait.

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>> No.20463256

>>20463107
To the fair it was the only one in the next hundred pages.

>> No.20463276

>>20463204
Incredible. I was also gifted Ficciones and I too was also haunted by T,U,OT. I better start writing my door stopper.

>> No.20463287

>>20463107
>circles a comma that should be a period or semi colon
Yeah and ?

>> No.20463295

>>20463287
run-on sentences are kino and you're a nerd faggot.

>> No.20463300

>>20463295
Oh are they now? Sorry I don’t read rubbish.

>> No.20463382

>>20463099
Reminder annotating books ultimately leads to suicide.

>> No.20463406

>>20463161
I guess I should just give up on my writing career.
I mean I haven't started so it's easy

>> No.20463413

>>20463099
Why ruin a book like that

>> No.20463447

>>20463406
/lit in a nutshell.

>> No.20463573

>>20463222
>Sorry guys Homer Simpson is my role model and I can't speak ill of him.

Lmao Pynchmeister has good taste. And he came up with the latke 49 joke?

>> No.20464365

DFW vs. Pynch

lets GOOOOOOOO

>> No.20464376

>>20463099
There was a quiet moment in his life when circled that comma. And now he's dead. Isn't that strange?

>> No.20464571

How the fuck do you people read your own writing?

>> No.20464747

>>20464376
The two actions are not disconnected.

>> No.20464887

>>20463161
>mfw I thought you were supposed to just read it and remember what you thought

>> No.20464967

>>20463099
>Q 3 (vry 1st line of this and last line of S
>Q 5/4 - T/o McC's take on Texas: is not(?) a spiritual creature or a material animal
>Q 19 - (me on (????? fake like Suttree?
>Q 38 - Narrator's broad comment. Any pattern to these? Agenda? & p. 40 & 44
>44 & 45 - McC's so heavy w/ narrative introsuions on what's to come. K.41s both suspense and subtlety. Why's he do it?
>Q 54 How does kid end up lone survivor of Comanche attack?
>Q 57 - symbolism of bush of dead babies?
>Q 66 After ???? but attack, why does kid tel Spruce 'What's wrong is wrong w/ through you-
>Q 78 - 19 - T/o McC's first dose of Glanton's gang
>Q 81 - Do paragraph on the two Jacksons
>Q 94 Judge calls kid 'Young Bleserios'?
>Q 94 Ack paragraph on false prophetess?
...
>Huck Finn (line pointed at "names are now lost")

I guess this is impressive to people who just look at the notes but don't actually read them.

>> No.20465192

>>20463107
It's a comma splice, nigga. Corncob doesn't understand basic grammatical rules.

>> No.20465199

>>20463413
The secret is to special order cellulose nitrate sheets (cels) that match the size of the pages, and overlay each page with one so you can write on them without damaging the book itself.
I do this with all of my books, can you say the same?

>> No.20465606

>>20463099
>See the child.
That's from Absalom, Absalom?

>> No.20465625 [DELETED] 

>>20463099
Woah I always thought DFW was ugly pseud shit, but this prose is really nice. I’ll pick up Blood Meridian after work tonight

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>>20463099
>Woah I always thought DFW was ugly pseudy shit, but this opening had me hooked. I think I’ll pick up Blood Meridian after work tonight

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>>20463099
Interesting. I always thought DFW was ugly pseudy shit, but this opening had me hooked. I think I’ll pick up Blood Meridian after work tonight

>> No.20465667

>>20463099
>thirty three underlined
DFW knew.

>> No.20465705

>>20465667
He most definitely did.
I tried reading DFW but was filtered, I’ll probably have to get a reading companion.

>> No.20465790

>>20465667
>>20465705
May I inquire on what you two are talking about?

>> No.20465815

>>20463242
Kino. didn't know he did autographs.

>> No.20465825

>>20465790
Age of Christ.

>> No.20465838

>>20465790
The Leonids, happen every 33 years. It’s a sign and an omen that Kid is born in this day.
The father remembers this day because of the omen, not because Kid is important.
33rd degree mason

>> No.20465843

>>20465192
If you look for comma splice you don't actually want to read the book. Use punctuation in whatever way you see fit if you're an author. Or don't. The only thing that matters is the meaning and the way the words, sentences and paragraphs are understood. As long as it all comes together and meaning oozes out it's entirely fine.

>> No.20465884

>>20465838
Christ also died at 33 years old.

>> No.20465934

>>20463189
Holy shit pynch sent a letter to vsauce

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>>20463222
>frying of latka 49
I'm fookin ded lads

>> No.20465961

>>20463168
Kek this guy lives down the street I should see if he's still there.

>> No.20465985

>>20463168
Do you think Pynchon is secretly shitting out litrpg and other self published trash on Amazon?

>> No.20465994

>>20465843
It's technically incorrect so it's obviously important as an author to consider why Corncob chose it over something else. DFW is an author analyzing the craft of another author

>> No.20466071

>>20465994
I don't have an issue with that at all. My point is that if you're just looking for wrong punctuation in order to dunk on the guy and not consider why that comma is there then you're not interested in the book in the first place. Making it out to be wrong and leaving it at that just because it's "wrong" is retarded. It's not a formal fucking letter send to some government cunt. Kleist for example has a billion wrong comma in his original German texts and he's beloved and his texts are well appreciated for what they are. As long as the meaning comes across and entices people to continue and touches them it's entirely fine.

>> No.20466163

I dont mark anything I read. Which isn't to say I dont think about it, or summarize points, or analyze details. It's just that to be honest the expression of that is usually in my own posts on here or in discord groups or messages to friends who read.

Same with journaling, which was always pretty universal among people, but I dont do. The equivalent is blogposts on fucking 4chan. I wish I could get my entire post history from the last 10 years. It would be an awesome diary.

>> No.20466184

>>20466071
Chill out. It is literally the first line of the first page, the guy with the red pen needs to find his footing too.

>> No.20466194

Best thread in some time.

>> No.20466229

>>20465934
kek

>> No.20466276

>>20466194
someone should save all the files and put them in a mega or something

>> No.20466318

Would people really think more of me if I started circling punctuation and page numbers in my books?

>> No.20466339

>>20466318
stop being a faggot

>> No.20466360

>>20463295
maybe that's why he did it.

>> No.20466373

>>20466339
I can't do it alone, anon-san.

>> No.20466431

>>20463161
I've never done it, but enjoy things like Helen Vender's vivisections of the Sonnets from time to time. It depends on how much technical craft, allusion, archaic usages, and such are involved. Reverse-engineering prose in this way, however, borders on schizo almost no matter who does it.

>> No.20467153

>>20463099
Is it as stupid as I think it is?

>> No.20467672

>>20463099
does anyone have that pasta of Corncob at the dinner party where everyone makes fun of him for writing genre fiction? I haven’t seen it posted in years.