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I believe this book was also published to disestablish the contemporary theories revolving around WW II that there were clear 'good' guys and 'bad' guys. A contemporary backlash against the propaganda.

>> No.5742665

Humble bump

>> No.5742707

Err.. I think you're reading too much into it. Gravity's Rainbow is mostly just a hilarious series of random gags. Pynchon said himself he writes high-brow comic books. Personally, that's why I love him. It's like an episode of an Adult Swim show, only you get literary cred for reading it because nobody realizes how fun it is!

>> No.5742710

>>5742707
This is B- trolling

>> No.5742719

no it wasnt

stop trying to attach political and philosophical meaning to every fucking work

all it does is cheapen it

>> No.5742722

>>5742707
No. Not even close asshole. Why even read a novel if you're not going to glean ANYTHING from it?

I'm not even referring to any symbolism, or metaphor or anything like that. I'm referring to A CULTURAL PHENOMENON going on at the time.

>> No.5742726

>>5742719
Hey idiot.

Use correct punctuation if you want me to think you have more than 100 IQ points. This isn't some E.E. Cummings post-modern poem

>> No.5742727

>>5742722
I understood the cultural phenomenon going on at the time. It was LSD and Pynchon took a lot of it while writing this, that's why it's so off-the-wall weird. Why are oyu trying to read "deep" meanings into what's essentially a giant drug trip? Relax and have fun man, Pynchon is a great writer, but he's not trying to communicate anything deep.

>> No.5742731

>>5742726
how about you go and read some adorno and learn why political or committed works are inferior

>> No.5742732

>>5742727
Fuck you moron. Try to open your god damn eyes. This is why I'm joining a book club tomorrow. So I don't have to deal with this bullshit.

>> No.5742737

>>5742722
lol

>> No.5742741

>>5742732
>Getting trolled by a guy who almost had a public mental breakdown over a 130 page novella and is continuing to have a breakdown over not liking 70 pages of a other book

>> No.5742747

>>5742741
Are you referring to me? Because I'm not trolling and I've never had a "public mental breakdown" here or anywhere.

>> No.5742748

I'm going to be honest here guys. I have this copy with the cover but you know, I don't care because I've grown to like the cover art.

>> No.5742751

>>5742748
its missing like 1300 pages, you should exchange it

>> No.5742753

>>5742747
You're either both trolling, both idiots, or he's very clearly outwitted you with his generic trolling

>> No.5742756

>>5742747
>Pretending you aren't obviously the guy who freaked out about TCoL49 not making sense and then started spamming your byllshit gleaned for 85 pages of Gravity's Rainbow a week later

Apparently this is your life now, epic toilet man.

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>>5742747
Gee, you zound defenshif. I think tis may have someshing to do wit the represshed memories.

>> No.5742760

>>5742753
Who the hell is trolling? Because people have a contrary opinion? Now I feel like I'm getting trolled. Good job, you trolled me. Sheesh.

>> No.5742764

>>5742756
Ohh ok, you have some troll nemesis here. Well good luck with that. I'm giving my honest opinion.

>> No.5742768

>>5742764
Explicate on the final vignette concerning slothrop before he dissipates.

>> No.5742769

>>5742764
The opinion was a negative one.

Pessimism =/= realism

>> No.5742773

>>5742768
Yeah no thanks. Get a life.

>> No.5742776

>>5742773
You have GOT to be kidding me. Are there actually people on /lit/ this dumb?

>> No.5742777

>>5742614
>>5742665
>>5742707
>>5742722
>>5742726
>>5742727
>>5742732
>>5742747
>>5742760
>>5742773
samefag

>> No.5742781

>>5742777
You think I'm arguing with myself?

>> No.5742782

>>5742777
Three of those posts say (You) for me.

>> No.5742787

>>5742773
So you haven't read more the book and talk exactly like that guy but aren't him. Okay.

>> No.5742788

>>5742781
As a method of gaining traction on an anime image board to feel better about yourself. If I am correct I applaud you dedication to a cause, but mourn your inability to communication beyond your solipsistic desire to mater.
The trolling reads too generic for anyone to buy into it, and the voices seem oddly similar, especially in the empathized words via quotation marks and caps lock.

>> No.5742794

>>5742788
A lot of this thread was two people, idiot.

That's how it works sometimes, lit is slow sometimes.

>> No.5742795

>>5742788
You're a giant retard dude

>> No.5742802

>>5742795
Only when I don't take my meds.

>> No.5743004

>>5742614
>>5742938
I can see that you won't get a very good answer out of the people in this thread.

Don't blame them; They're post-structuralists and deconstructionists. To them "Aristotle" is a curse word. They think that people are composed of literal literary and spoken language, and that a true understanding of language comes at the expense of or at the death of the author.

This generation is doomed to be not the gardeners, but the soil from which their thoughts are grown. They are eternally infants playing peek-a-boo, who think that if they cannot see a thing it may as well not exist.

You cannot talk about propaganda on this website. The people here have been conditioned to believe against it. You are better off browsing the waybackmachine than this site in it's present form.