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20887358 No.20887358 [Reply] [Original]

Why do chuds read this book as anything but a post-colonial, environmentalist, post-left anarchist novel?

>> No.20887372

>>20887358
I'm glad someone also gets it. Pynchon is a true genius of the post-modern.

>> No.20887375

>>20887358
but it is?

>> No.20887429

>>20887375
Ch*ds think that it's about the jews, not the powers that be

>> No.20888374

I lost my copy on a plane and I'm so happy I don't have to finish it

>> No.20888381

>>20887429
>jews
>the powers that be
same thing

>> No.20888385

>>20887429
You frame the distinction in a way that divides you and your chud allies against your common enemy. You serve your enemy.

>> No.20888399

its literally one of the most scathing critiques of capitalism that one can possibly read and people come away with it thinking it someone isn't a leftist novel.

>> No.20888431

>>20887358
Why do soys read this book as anything other than a post-digestive, scatological, post-rectal fetishist novel?

>> No.20888513

>>20888431
Because it is

>> No.20889371

>>20888399
Hi, OP here, and I am an enormous faggot, and to clarify, Gravity's Rainbow is a markedly post-leftist novel, seeing all industrial-age ideologies as players in the game that will doom humanity ("kekule dreams the serpent"). Gravity's Rainbow is against the control of maleficent powers: capitalism, totalitarian control, imperialism, and chuds, but it sees conventional leftism as complicit and unable to fundamentally change these evils ("AN ARMY OF LOVERS CAN BE BEATEN")

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20889375

>>20888381
beat it, chud!

>> No.20890139

>>20887358
Good post-colonial, environmentalist, and post-left anarchist philosophers to read anons?

>> No.20890152

>>20887358
Post-left anarchism. Wasn’t even a thing when Pynchon was writing, you fucking loser spouting terms you just looked up on Wikipedia

>> No.20890550

>>20890152
Maybe Pynchon wasn't literally a proponent of post-left anarchism, anon, but it seems true in the sense that he was critical of modern systems of power while rejecting dialectical materialism and the need for the working class to rise up or whatever. Maybe I'm outing myself as a midwit here, but it seems correct to call him post-leftist.

>> No.20890556

>>20889375
cringe

>> No.20891807

Bob Black is the only contemporary I can think of

>> No.20891830

>>20890152
>there wasn't a Wikipedia article for it yet so no one could possible hold those values!

bugman

>> No.20891841

>>20887358
I always smirk when I see some anons say that Pynchon isn’t a liberal. He’s clearly a hippie type

>> No.20892141

>>20887358
postcolonial theory is literally the slave moralist branch of sociological theories

>> No.20892173

>>20891841
>He’s clearly a hippie type
I agree, and that's kinda what keeps me from enjoying the book. I've tried 3 times and only ever got halfway through and it just became a chore to read. I don't know if maximalism really works when you never lived in the time the author did; too many references fall flat. 2666 is great maximalism for a 32 year old like me

>> No.20892529

>>20892173
Err well I think it's the most incredible novel and I wasn't born then. Think you're just an idiot

>> No.20892574

>>20892529
I think you're an idiot for thinking it's the most incredible novel

>> No.20892756

>>20892173
Yeah, you haven't finished it.

>> No.20892763

>>20891830
>t.bugman with a fifth-grade reading level
Say it ain’t so!

>> No.20892773

>>20892574
You admit to not even getting it or finishing it so I think things are pretty clear on the idiot front.

>> No.20892783

>>20889375
Imagine CHUDS who want to live around WHITE people instead of BASED BIPOC. What a bunch of BIGOTS.

>> No.20892784

>>20891841
i remember someone posting that article that Pynchon wrote about the Watts riots and making a lot of /pol/ chuds seethe like crazy

>> No.20892785

>>20892783
Cry harder

>> No.20892790
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20892790

>>20892783
>tfw you got the chuds seething

>> No.20892917

>>20887358
It's an anti-government and anti-war book. It has nothing to do with anarchism.
It's one of the best books ever written too.

>> No.20893339

>>20892917
> It has nothing to do with anarchism.
it does though, pynchon is pretty sympathetic to anarchists in GR

>> No.20893406

>>20892784
I don’t even understand how some anons see Pynchon as a conservative? Makes no sense. Just wishful thinking?

>> No.20894054

>>20892784
Remember when he said nigger? How could he do that to the basketball americans?

>> No.20895422

>>20892784
link?

>> No.20895425

>>20893339
sympathy =/= spousing their views

>> No.20895473

>>20895425
You are retarded.

>> No.20895509

>>20889375
based anomalocaris tribute

>> No.20895514

>>20895473
>Hey, these soviet guys are alright hehe
>BOOK XYZ IS LE HECKING COMMUNIST AND A GOOD EXAMPLE OF COMMUNIST LITERATURE

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20895517

How do I read this book? I don't even understand what the first few pages are about

>> No.20896109

>>20895517
1. have a debilitating mental condition
2.

>> No.20896425

>>20895517
WEED. LMAO.
But unironically

>> No.20896780

>>20887358
Imagine reading this fucking turd and feeling good about yourself for it. Leftists should commit suicide ASAP.

>> No.20896811

>>20889375
God is going to wipe you off the face of the earth

>> No.20896892

>>20887358
i get you like the word post but what’s wrong with anarchy?

>> No.20897496

>>20890139
There are none.

>> No.20897523

>>20896892
OP said it is an anarchist novel...

>> No.20897844

>>20895517
You just have to reread it