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2908225 No.2908225[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

>tfw you will never write anything half as good as Pynchon

>> No.2908230

Why? Write any C-grade fiction with an identifiable character arc and it's better than that dogshit.

>> No.2908234
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>>2908225
Half as good? Son, I physically couldn't write that bad.

>> No.2908236

>>2908230
edgy

>> No.2908243

>>2908236
>A: A thing is bad.
>B: So edgy, man. Your edges are cutting me from all angles. I can't believe you hold such an EDGY opinion.

This is worse than /v/'s "you just hate fun", fyi.

>> No.2908250

>>2908243
Fine, I retract edgy. How does "unsubstantiated poppycock" suit you instead? I think you wear it very well.

>> No.2908258

Hey, the onus is on you to prove Pynchon is good.

>> No.2908269

>>2908258
likewise, your opinion is totally worthless

>> No.2908286

She turns. “Hold up my fur.” He obeys. “Be careful. Don’t touch my skin.”Earlier in this game she was nervous, constipated, wondering if this was anythinglike male impotence. But thoughtful Pointsman, anticipating this, has beensending laxative pills with her meals. Now her intestines whine softly, and shefeels shit begin to slide down and out. He kneels with his arms up holding the richcape. A dark turd appears out the crevice, out of the absolute darkness betweenher white buttocks. He spreads his knees, awkwardly, until he can feel the leatherof her boots. He leans forward to surround the hot turd with his lips, sucking onit tenderly, licking along its lower side . . . he is thinking, he’s sorry, he can’t helpit, thinking of a Negro’s penis, yes he knows it abrogates part of the conditionsset, but it will not be denied, the image of a brute African who will make himbehave. . . . The stink of shit oods his nose, gathering him, surrounding. It is thesmell of Passchendaele, of the Salient. Mixed with the mud, and the putrefactionof corpses, it was the sovereign smell of their rst meeting, and her emblem. Theturd slides into his mouth, down to his gullet. He gags, but bravely clamps histeeth shut. Bread that would only have oated in porcelain waters somewhere,unseen, untasted—risen now and baked in the bitter intestinal Oven to bread weknow, bread that’s light as domestic comfort, secret as death in bed . . . Spasms inhis throat continue. The pain is terrible. With his tongue he mashes shit against the roof of his mouth and begins to chew, thickly now, the only sound in theroom

---Gravity's Rainbow by Pynchon

HAHAHAHAHA POO POO CACA!! PINCHY IS THE BEST!

>> No.2908295

In thirty years he'll be as relevant as Horatio Alger.

>> No.2908299

>>2908269
>A: Pynchon is the best thing ever. (unsupported claim)
>B: Nah, he's not.
>A: So EDGY! (circumstantial ad hominem)
>B: No, he's actually not, regardless of the motive anyone might have for saying so.
>A: Can you substantiate that? (ie. "Can you prove I'm wrong before I prove I'm right?")
>B: That's not how this works.
>A: Pleb. I bet you don't even have an English degree.

Liberal Arts education vindicated once again! The professor said it's good, so now we have to say it's good, and if anyone disagrees we call them uncultured swine ad nauseam.

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>>2908295
Hey...You're this guy aren't you?

http://fuuka.warosu.org/lit/thread/S2882802#p2883043

You're the best poster on here. Please tells us more about you so we (I) can adore you more.

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>>2908295
Fine, if you don't want my love and adoration, you don't want my love and adoration.

>> No.2908745

I can't wait until people actually get around to reading Against the Day.

>> No.2908870

the faggotry in this thread is fucking immense

>> No.2908876

I can't believe people criticizing Pynchon have read any of his "harder" books.

>> No.2908877

>>2908870
Thanks, we try our habeebest

>> No.2908878

Mason & Dixon is his best by a mile.

It's so fucking good. He's been working on it since V. and Gravity's Rainbow. At least he's been thinking about it since then.

Seriously, you niggers, little Mason looking at the dough rising, racing huge blocks of cheese down hills, stars so close you don't need telescopes, fish that jump into your arms, indians who know magic. Fishing!

Greatest american novel, fuckers. Deal with.

>> No.2909481

>>2908878
This
>>2908745
Did it. What's your point?

>> No.2909484

>>2908878
>>2909481

I still think GR beats it by a hair