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Anonymous Mon May 29 13:56:24 2023 No.22089121 [Reply] [Original]

Would anyone be down to join a book club devoted only to the works of Pynchon? I was thinking we could call ourselves "The Chums of Chance" like from Against the Day. We could set up a discord and every few months we would have an official read of one his books, and when we're not reading his books officially as "The Chums", any of his reading we do on our own we could share any thoughts we have with each other. Also, I think it would be fun to share like Pynchon memes with each other and stuff. Another idea is if we one of sees something on 4chan talking bad about Pynchon we would tell the others who could go argue with the pseud.

Anyone interested? If so, any other ideas we could do?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 14:03:08 2023 No.22089133 >>22089121 you have found your first chum

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 14:08:16 2023 No.22089152 >>22089121 i dont own any of his books and nobody is selling any near me

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 14:10:55 2023 No.22089160 Is there any justification at all why this board is so obsessed with pynchon

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 14:18:24 2023 No.22089180 >>22085728 >>22089160 He's a good writer.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 14:28:29 2023 No.22089203 >>22089160 He’s pseud bait. The Pynchon fandom one /lit/ has greatly waned over the past 5 years

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 14:29:55 2023 No.22089206 >>22089203 Not if I've got anything to say about it. Effortposting--deploy!!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 15:10:04 2023 No.22089319 >>22089121 I wouldnt worry about it

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 15:16:06 2023 No.22089341 >>22089121 Here's another chum for ya!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 15:46:10 2023 No.22089448 >>22089206 >>22089341 fuck yes, it's already starting. Chums of Chance, Assemble!

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 15:50:26 2023 No.22089461 I would be if you knuckleheads are actually going to read. Every other book club I join from /lit/ leaves me being the only one actually reading and everyone else giving up

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 15:55:38 2023 No.22089474 >>22089121 I would join irl, but pass on a discord

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 16:21:03 2023 No.22089547 >>22089121 Link it up anon

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 16:24:26 2023 No.22089561 >>22089121 I'd join, link to discord

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 16:43:48 2023 No.22089615 >>22089121 Me think CoC was some kind of metaphor for Jesuit jügend or smthng. And you had to be a IRL Jesuit or some other kind of fag. So you dont qualify. I mean not literal fag. It was just another metaphor so you still don't qualify.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 16:44:55 2023 No.22089618 >>22089615 I wouldn’t worry about it.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 16:47:25 2023 No.22089626 >>22089615 >Me think CoC was some kind of metaphor for Jesuit jügend or smthng absolutely filtered

Anonymous Mon May 29 17:39:33 2023 No.22089773

This sounds like a lot of fun, I am reading Gravitys Rainbow at the moment myself.

https://discord.gg/SwFPWPce

I created a Discord in the meantime, but if OP shows up with a different link we can just migrate over there, just to ensure that no one misses it when (if) OP returns?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 17:41:04 2023 No.22089778 >>22089121 bump

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 19:45:24 2023 No.22090197 >>22089773 Only 2 people joined so far, radio silence from OP, but we keep our hopes up. Join in.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 19:58:15 2023 No.22090248 >>22089474 Fake chum

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 20:35:14 2023 No.22090361 >>22089121 So butthurt from the Lot49 thread these fags start their own thread lol Pathetic

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 21:17:43 2023 No.22090511 >>22089615 considering they were apparently immortal to a degree, I think there's a bit more going on

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 21:24:33 2023 No.22090536 >>22090511 Didn't they realize later on that they were never immortal in the first place? They just thought of themselves as Peter Pan like beings while everyone else saw them as old people.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 21:26:06 2023 No.22090543 File: 4 KB, 220x121, mh1).png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22090361 >many such cases Welcome to /lit/ >>22089461 Also this

Anonymous Mon May 29 21:33:22 2023 No.22090570

>>22090361
The OP of that thread's critique was literally that he thought it was too much that he had to think in order to decipher the thoughts of the characters, and that it was annoying that the writer was presenting his "broad thoughts on a subject".
I read that critique like 3 or 4 times because it was just so astounding and stupefying. It is either one of the most puzzling and hence engaging/successful trolls I've seen in months or he is literally retarded with an IQ in the range of 90-95

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 21:46:54 2023 No.22090614 hey guys maybe we could all meet up and do some stuff? ive never really slept with anyone before. and the only people ive ever cared about are you guys

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 21:50:08 2023 No.22090630 >>22090614 What's your definition of unorthodox sexual preferences?

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 21:50:39 2023 No.22090633 >>22090614 so the bureau put you on 4chan duty huh? >Paranoids are not paranoids (Proverb 5) because they’re paranoid, but because they keep putting themselves, fucking idiots, deliberately into paranoid situations.

>>	Anonymous Mon May 29 22:01:12 2023 No.22090668 I think it is a great idea for this group to meet up in real life. Maybe we could get together and make some plans too. I am from Seattle

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 02:26:31 2023 No.22091482 >>22090630 all for it

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 02:37:40 2023 No.22091505 File: 41 KB, 480x660, R.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22089203 Yes

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 03:25:16 2023 No.22091612 >>22090668 Perfect I'm near Philly

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 03:28:05 2023 No.22091622 >>22091612 My Pynchon days are in my past but I’m also near Philly; the NE suburbs

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 04:03:11 2023 No.22091722 >>22090668 >>22091612 >>22091622 Perfect, I’m in Texas. A nice central meeting place.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 04:50:39 2023 No.22091841 >>22089121 i started reading gravity's rainbow recently and i feel like i get lost like every third sentence with what scenario is even being described despite the prose not actually being that difficult. am i just retarded?

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 05:25:16 2023 No.22091906 >>22091841 Just stop caring and imagine that pepe

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 10:53:34 2023 No.22092384 >>22091841 This is inevitable when reading Pynchon, as you get used to his style you definitely get better at it. Just keep reading.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 12:12:21 2023 No.22092506 File: 84 KB, 698x563, wojak_bloomer.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>22091841 You’ll get better at it

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 18:51:10 2023 No.22093677 bump

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 21:56:16 2023 No.22094395 File: 223 KB, 1024x611, against_the_day__dahlia_and_merle_rideout_by_gozer_the_gozarian_d547i6v-fullview.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I always wanted to start a cult around Against the Day like Pynchon did with Oakley Hall's Warlock.

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 22:12:31 2023 No.22094466 >>22089203 This is true but also speaks to the decline in the quality of pseudery on this board as Pynchon is a legitimately great writer

>>	Anonymous Tue May 30 22:21:52 2023 No.22094500 >>22090543 we're still reading Magic mountain (or at least i am ;—;)

>>	Anonymous Wed May 31 05:47:03 2023 No.22095792 >>22090361 Kek a visual representation of cope

>>	Anonymous Wed May 31 05:58:12 2023 No.22095819 >>22089160 He's a brilliant writer who filters the pseuds. What's not to like?

>>	Anonymous Wed May 31 11:40:42 2023 No.22096368 >>22089121 Pynchon is a mouth-breather

>>	Anonymous Wed May 31 12:51:09 2023 No.22096497 >>22089121 I’ll climb aboard. Currently rereading V. Getting a lot more out of it this time around but it isn’t mind blowing like it was for my younger self.

>>	Anonymous Wed May 31 14:43:31 2023 No.22096766 >>22096368 wow he's just like me!

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