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>> No.20672454

>>20672421
start with the greeks

>> No.20672461

>>20672421
Read Call of the Crocodile

>> No.20672465

>he doesn't get it

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>>20672461

>> No.20672516

>>20672465
that's the point

I'm schizophrenic

and i get it

so pynchon is a literal fucking schizo too kek

>> No.20674003

>>20672421
is this fr

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>>20672516
Charlie Mason thought he "got it" when the Beatles had encoded secret messages for him in the White Album.

Being schizophrenic means you have the opposite of special insight.

>> No.20675493

>>20675469
i'm not saying Pynchon wrote these messages for me, just that he has a very specific philosophy that is unclear to laymen but is generally coherent and correct

>> No.20675496

>>20675493
Spell it out, then.

>> No.20675686

>>20675496
Anon is having what is known in the literature as a "psychotic insight". He thinks he's not like the other schizos. He REALLY gets what's going on.

>> No.20675909

You can't touch the master but you can tickle his creations.

>> No.20676000

>>20675496
Pynchon believes in a similar philosophy to mine, spelled out in this thread:
>>20674184
Fun fact: this thread you're writing in right now is mine. I'm the OP. I wrote it, and the thread linked in this post. I metaphorically own you hihi

tldr: Pynchon tries to give meaning to esotericism, and through esotericism he tries to criticize the status quo in a very genius way

>> No.20676448

>>20675469
proof?

>> No.20676455

>>20672421
Fuck off.

>> No.20676473

>>20676000
>he tries
Not 'very genius' of him.

>> No.20676911

>>20676000
huh?

>> No.20676914

>>20676473
well, he asks questions without being obvious. he doesn't answer, but he lays out the dots