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pynchon general Anonymous Tue Jun 9 08:59:55 2015 No.6663034 [Reply] [Original]

LAST NIGHT I POKED THE QUEEN OF TRANSYLVANIA

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 09:05:41 2015 No.6663049 >>6663034 So far I've read V., Gravity's Rainbow, and Bleeding Edge. Which Pinecone should be my next? I'm thinking of either The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, or Inherent Vice because I want to save his (presumably) better books for later.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 09:06:35 2015 No.6663050 >>6663034 also into dis dere beeffallo with mouldy flippers dancing on a pole reading umbrella assembly manual.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 09:17:14 2015 No.6663080 File: 755 KB, 784x653, v.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] GR > TCoL49 > V. > AtD > M&D > The Secret Integration > Inherent Vice = Bleeding Edge = Vineland > Small Rain > Under the Rose > Entropy = Low-Lands

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 09:18:07 2015 No.6663082 You realise Pynchon is literally YA? You are reading the male equivalent of vampire novels.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 09:19:52 2015 No.6663084 File: 40 KB, 160x604, pynchonteen.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6663049 You should try Mason & Dixon, probably. TCoL49 is nice, too.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 09:26:02 2015 No.6663099 >>6663080 What abotu Death & Mortality in Viena? It's like 30 pages long but I've been dragging to read it for one year, I could use some incentive

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 09:27:25 2015 No.6663101 >>6663084 I'm thinking of saving M&D and Against the Day for last though so I'll probably just read TCoL49 now.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 09:27:32 2015 No.6663102 >>6663050 Nice dubs

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 09:30:57 2015 No.6663111 File: 255 KB, 940x1015, 1415138805907.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Bumping with my favorite Pynchon-related article: http://www.vulture.com/2013/08/thomas-pynchon-bleeding-edge.html

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 09:38:11 2015 No.6663125 >>6663099 There's also Nearer, My Couch, to Thee and some other stuff

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 09:40:57 2015 No.6663133 I like the smell of my own farts hahaha

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 09:43:41 2015 No.6663139 >>6663050 >>6663102 >>6663133 Samefag real mode autismo detected

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 09:48:16 2015 No.6663154 Another great article: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/07/baddies-in-books-captain-blicero-gravitys-rainbow-thomas-pynchon >>6663133 great meme! :)

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 10:07:11 2015 No.6663196 File: 199 KB, 794x765, poisson.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 10:11:30 2015 No.6663215 >>6663084 rare pynchon

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 10:17:33 2015 No.6663227 File: 26 KB, 352x664, rest.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6663215 nowhere near as rare as <<<

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 10:22:26 2015 No.6663237 File: 38 KB, 422x407, possiblypynchon.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6663227 #soitgoes

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 11:01:16 2015 No.6663368 >>6663227 http://www.avclub.com/article/maybe-thomas-pynchon-wasnt-inherent-vice-after-all-220352

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 12:46:01 2015 No.6663760 >>6663080 why write "U" like a box without a top? I kept reading BUT as BLIT

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 12:51:28 2015 No.6663781 >>6663368 That's about another scene actually

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 12:56:51 2015 No.6663800 File: 987 KB, 1280x1479, smelly winston.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6663034 Daily reminder that if you haven't found his address in NYC public records and tracked him down you're a filthy casual and Pinecone doesn't love you.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 13:30:34 2015 No.6663947 I've read IV and tCoL49, where next? Gravity's rainbow?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 13:36:29 2015 No.6663982 >>6663947 Read V. before Rainbow.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 13:40:06 2015 No.6663992 >>6663982 why? Better to ease in?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 13:48:01 2015 No.6664018 >>6663992 thematic links between the two or you can just read GR because it's more fun, then V., then re-read GR

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 13:48:18 2015 No.6664019 >>6663992 Yes, but mostly because V. was written first, as well as sharing themes and characters with GR.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 13:52:00 2015 No.6664029 >>6663992 This >>6664019 The links are far from superficial.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 13:54:26 2015 No.6664035 >>6664018 Ahh, okay. Thanks.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 14:33:54 2015 No.6664211 >>6663947 I read GR before V. and I like GR better than V., so GR. Or V. because everybody else said so, whatever man.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 15:00:06 2015 No.6664312 File: 1.43 MB, 1210x3613, Tommy P.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6663947

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 19:31:42 2015 No.6665530 jumped right into Gravity's Rainbow. about 60 pages in so far. Is it supposed to not make sense? am I supposed to be remembering each Character?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 19:33:47 2015 No.6665539 >>6665530 It would be easier if you had started with a lighter introduction to his style. I read Pynchon chronologically and once I got to GR it was downright accessible.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 19:34:23 2015 No.6665542 >>6663800 I did, It led me to a facade with a muted post horn on the door.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 20:01:42 2015 No.6665661 File: 2.37 MB, 1210x2237, 2342.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6664312

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 20:04:20 2015 No.6665673 File: 45 KB, 720x480, asd.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] I'm reading Gravity's Rainbow as we speak. About 25% of the way through. Am I going to be a better person when I finish?

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 20:06:01 2015 No.6665676 started reading Pinecone >sez >sez literally why

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 20:06:21 2015 No.6665680 >>6665673 At the very least, you'll have poorly read one additional book.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 20:13:38 2015 No.6665714 >>6665680 I understood the part about the german dude putting his dick in the boy with an italian dude. Try to tell me I'm reading Gravity's Rainbow poorly again, motherfucker.

>>	The cats Tue Jun 9 20:15:32 2015 No.6665729 >>6665676 >Start reading gravity's rainbow, dry >bitch >be a pleb >ask unanswerable question >shitpost

>>	Anonymous Tue Jun 9 22:01:21 2015 No.6666187 >>6665530 shoulda started with his novella crying of the lot

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 10 02:06:06 2015 No.6667391 File: 20 KB, 165x254, pynchon_junior.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] hi /lit/

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 10 07:32:46 2015 No.6668333 >>6665673 sure :^)

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 10 09:45:01 2015 No.6668706 >>6663196 Slothrop my man

Anonymous Wed Jun 10 09:53:32 2015 No.6668733

There was a great thread about GR while ago. And there was discussion about the death of Bianca and so on.
Are there any specific theories about that. or do you have any?

To me it almost seemed like if the Bianca, her mother, Greta Erdmann. and Miklos Thanatz were all sort of hallucination of Slothrope.
Later when Slothrope met Der Springer, Springer was suprised that Greta is even alive; no-one knew Slothrope when he returned on the board of Anubis, and so on. But totally unsure about this all.

What do you think?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 10 09:57:37 2015 No.6668746 File: 35 KB, 534x388, dfwr2.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6668733 >Slothrope

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 10 09:59:37 2015 No.6668752 >>6668746 feels like retard honestly, but writing on shitty keyboard, if it's an excuse

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 10 10:07:31 2015 No.6668772 >>6663111 This that Norman Mailer in the background?

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 10 10:25:36 2015 No.6668834 File: 153 KB, 719x1125, gravity's rainbow woodsworth.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/apr/07/baddies-in-books-captain-blicero-gravitys-rainbow-thomas-pynchon

Anonymous Wed Jun 10 10:46:39 2015 No.6668896

>>6668733
Bianca [Spoiler]was already dead before Slothrop fell off the Anubis. Slothrop just suppressed the trauma of seeing her hanging corpse in the engine room until he was forced to confront it after boarding the ship again with Der Springer.[/Spoiler]

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 10 11:17:11 2015 No.6668979 >>6663196 Slothrop you dog

>>	Anonymous Wed Jun 10 11:18:14 2015 No.6668984 >>6663196 Wait, that's the 1940 Blitz not the V-2 bombardment in 1944-1945

Anonymous Wed Jun 10 11:58:42 2015 No.6669092

>>6668733
Nah man, everyone was just all fucked up on that boat all hours. Bianca was dead that's the "flash of hair" or whatever he sees before he's compelled the run the fuck out of there and jump overboard. He's repressing it. Antonio also goes overboard.

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