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6520610 No.6520610 [Reply] [Original]

>i am old and quirky! I should write a book about shit that i dont understand the youngster sure will love it!

>> No.6520618
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>>6520610
oooh is this were we trivialize authors and philosophers by saying
>hurr durr
followed by misinterpretations of their work?
I wanna try.

>Hurr durr I guess you're just born that way

>> No.6520704

>>6520610
More like

> Everything I predicted 40 years ago came true and is happening in full view, watch me drop another huge red pill in this book for people 40 years in the future to figure out

>> No.6520711

>>6520704
What are some things it predicts?

>> No.6520771

>>6520711
It predicted /pol/

>> No.6520778

>>6520771
It existed before it came out no?

>> No.6520813

>>6520610
The events of the book took place 15 years ago, a time when Pynchon was still alive but young people back then aren't young now. It's a good chance he has a more realistic view than youngsters now have.

>>6520704
Elaborate, please. I'm not diagreeing, it sounds ineteresting.

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>>6520771

>> No.6520841

>taking Thomas "english teeth" pynchon seriously

>> No.6520859

What with this boards circle-jerk over Pynchon?

You can't stop talking about him.

>> No.6520866

>>6520859
Based Pynch cannot be stopped.

>> No.6520885

>>6520711
If you read the book you'd know.

Let's just say avoid the Michael Chabon review.

>> No.6520886

>>6520885
I don't want to read it I just want the predictions made. Unless you're just a bullshitter

>> No.6520893

>>6520886
Take a random fucking guess.

>> No.6520904

>>6520893
Eh