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7494616 No.7494616 [Reply] [Original]

Behold! The "The" trilogy: successor of trilogies past, the champion of the elitist sentiments so prominent in our little community.

>> No.7494619

Damn, those covers are boring.

Where's 2666.

>> No.7494625

Gass fucking stinks

>> No.7494629

>>7494619
It doesn't have "the" in the title, and it doesn't match the quality of these works.
>>7494625
Very funny, friend.

>> No.7494654
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>>7494629
Fair enough. To make the image more eye-popping you should use the better cover of The Tunnel that isn't a dreary olive green. Also, this cover of The Recognitions, if not the other one.

If you're serious about making this the next meme trilogy, that is. :^)

>> No.7494676
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>>7494654
Here's the other cover.

>> No.7494689

What is the current meme trilogy?

>> No.7494693

I there even a ebook version available of The Tunnel on the internet? I never fucking found it.

>> No.7494700

>>7494616
>Hawkes

Swerve.

>> No.7494716
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>>7494676
>$4.95

>> No.7494717
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>>7494654
Is this more to your liking?

>> No.7494723

Hawkes and Gass are shit.

JR is better than The Recognitions.

>> No.7494743

>>7494723
You say that, but I'm unconvinced.

>> No.7494758

>>7494717
The Tunnel cover looks stretched, but otherwise, yes. At least I personally think so.

>> No.7494806

>>7494616

The Recognition is a bloated first novel that shows its weakness as a first novel and Gaddis' inability to keep any leaflet of more than 100 pages mutually adhesive.

I have no idea what that second one is.

William Gass is a great author who waste 20+ years writing The Tunnel. It's not a masterpiece, it's an academic brick. I'd recommend his short stories and Omensetter over that garbage any day. It's just not a good book.

>> No.7494818
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7494818

What about this trilogy

>> No.7494844

What about the
>À rebours
>Siddhartha
>On the Road
trilogy?

>> No.7494854

>>7494844
pleb

>> No.7494856

>>7494818
>Jonathan Franzen
garbage

>> No.7494865

>>7494854
>Implying you've read all three

>> No.7494881

>>7494865
I've read Siddhartha and On the Road, and those are enough for me to justify calling you a pleb.

>> No.7494899
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>> No.7494916

>>7494806
Those are some pretty audacious claims.

>> No.7494923

>>7494916

well this is a board for audacious 18 year olds who don't read much, so I think it's a fitting reaction

>> No.7494946

>>7494899
Skipping over Nietzsche as much as /lit/ talks about him is ridiculous. And it's not like anyone here has actually read Hegel.

>> No.7494952

>>7494946
Those books are harder than anythign by Nietzsche

>> No.7494963

>>7494899
Philosophical Investigations instead of Being and Time and I'd agree.

>> No.7495045

If this stupid 'meme trilogy' thing gets people to actually read Gaddis, Hawkes, and Gass, then I guess I'm for it. I liked the one with Bolaño and McElroy, but this looks just as good.

Anyone shitting on Hawkes is woefully uneducated, he is one of the most influential prose writers of the last 50 years. He was doing pomo shit way before old Tommy Pinecone was.

As for Gass, he is an amazing author, with some real meme potential. I mean he wrote a whole fucking book on the word blue.

>> No.7495048
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7495048

If you could only read three books.

>> No.7495056

>>7495048
Really all you need.

>> No.7495058

>>7495045
Agreed. The only way to save /lit/ is to make it even more elitist than it is now. And Hawkes is GOAT.

>> No.7495089

>>7495048
b-but 2/3 are not post modern trash tho

>> No.7495262

>>7494899
finally a truly patrician trilogy
>>7494946
I'd wager there's at least a couple here who have. I have studied Hegel, although I focused more on philosophy of history than phenomenology of spirit.
>>7495048
lmao fantastic meme

>> No.7495267

this thread is so fucking reddit

>> No.7495274

>>7495267
no it's not

>> No.7495300

Was excited to see the lime twig posted. Read every post. Only comment mentioning it says doesn't know what it is. Obviously.

>> No.7495308

>>7494946
Nietzsche does not have an ontology or epistemology that comes close to Hegel/Heidegger/Kant amounts of rigor.

>> No.7495335

>>7495308

True, but thank god for that. Nietzsche is more interesting than any of those guys. Coincidence? Unlikely.

That said, Hegel4lyfe 420 blaze it goombah.

>> No.7495336

>>7494946
I'd studied Hegel in college, read the Phenomenology all the way through once, and Self-Consciousness at least five times. That book is incredibly simple to understand in its own terms. It's incredibly convoluted, but it's enlightening if you focus your attention slowly on it. If it's too difficult for you to understand, you should probably give up on philosophy.

>> No.7495397

>>7495300
I love Hawkes. He is one of my favorites. I like Blood Oranges more than the Lime Twig though.

>> No.7495441

>>7495048
>Implying anyone will read garbage like binnegans bake.

>> No.7495452

>>7495335

What a prole.

>> No.7495490

you know what would be dope
if memetrilogy makers put together zip files of their memetrilogies in epub or pdf form

>> No.7495507

>>7495490
redpill.rar

>> No.7495938

>>7495490
>Didn't read the sticky

>> No.7496151

>>7495045
>He was doing pomo shit way before old Tommy Pinecone was.
Well what's most important for our memes is that Hawkes influenced Pinecone. Or at least Lime Twig is one of Tom's favorite novels or something

>> No.7496162

The Lime Twig is a genuinely horrible book. I wouldn't try to force it.

>> No.7496167

Someone post the other meme set, the one with 2666

>> No.7496211
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>> No.7496261

>>7496211
best new meme trilogy tbqh

>> No.7496324
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>>7494654

I prefer the cover of my edition.

>> No.7496327

>>7496211
best meme trilogy yet

>> No.7496328

>>7494689
the lord of the rings

>> No.7496348

>>7496324
Have that one too. Best cover ever. Finding this book, or any Gaddis at all, in used book stores makes me tingly.

>> No.7496514

>>7494899
theres no point reading philosophy

you can understand everything in about 1-2 wiki paragraphs

>> No.7496527
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7496527

>meme trilogy
>no PIERS FUKKIN PLOWMAN or Paradise Loft
>mfw

>> No.7498176

>>7496324
It doesn't even look human.

>> No.7498193
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>>7494616

>> No.7499320

>trying to force memes
you kids are the worst

>> No.7499711

>>7494899

It can't be a meme trilogy without Max Stirner or Zizek.

>> No.7499906

Next week we'll have another meme trilogy of... big books.

>> No.7499933

>>7496211
Has anyone actually read women and men though? I thought it was out of print

>> No.7499941
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7499941

>all these people trying to force new meme trilogies

The old one is forever the best

>> No.7500007

>>7499320
No one's forcing the McElroy trilogy, and it has consistently been the one that is most approved. It's >>7499941 who's forcing his stupid Plato trilogy because he has nothing better to do.

>> No.7500030

>>7500007
>approval for a meme
This isn't fucking reddit kid, we don't have accepted memes. Memes come about spontaneously, you think DFW came on here like 'Hey guys let me be a meme :)' and then we fucking discussed it? Jesus fucking Christ learn a little about memes before you embarrass yourself. Nobody of literary relevance cares about you, or your fucking "meme" trilogy. They're all "meme" books--there's no true sublimity to them; you hope they'll become a meme merely on the virtue of being a bit quirky. That's not how it fucking works around here, you think memes are made like that? Like hey guys approve my meme? Wow. Wow. Wow. I'm not one to send people to Reddit but you're acting like someone who hasn't even seen a real meme. You're a fucking amateur; you think people are gonna see your so called "meme" and think 'haha great meme from /lit/ today"? Abbasalutely wrong; they'll say "hey who invited Reddit today? You fucking clown?!" Is that what you think memes are about? Just fucking status symbols? Get yourself a fucking trip and trip on it, dick.

>> No.7500039

>>7500030
Your a big guy, haha :D:DDDD

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>>7500039