/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.7843185]

So, what's the next Thomas Pynchon novel going to be set around?

[Anonymous No.7843209]

Japanese insurance adjuster

[Anonymous No.7843218]

>>7843185
There might not be one.

>>7843209
That was Vineland.

[Anonymous No.7843236]

It's called infinite jest. He basically rewrites the novel to show the world how a guy with talent would have done it

[Anonymous No.7843239]

Do you think Pynchon contributed to SpongeBob at all?

[Anonymous No.7843250]

>>7843236

This place would implode. It'd be best to just delete /lit/ forever after that.

[Anonymous No.7843264]

A reincarnated Russian Spetsnaz-turned-Buddhist monk flees across the Antarctic after discovering Braille code threats from an anonymous character named "OCK" on the back of his Wheaties box.

[Anonymous No.7843280]

>>7843185
An aging writer with no idea what made him critically acclaimed in the first place writing novels that his early fanbase tend to dismiss as "pay checks" or "him having fun". Twist: he is trying as hard as he can to be relevant again and is in a suicidal spiral.

[Anonymous No.7843285]

>>7843185
medieval Europe, calling it

[Anonymous No.7843290]

>>7843280

I actually have a theory similar to this that he thinks he's losing his legacy and doesn't know how to stop it or catch up to where he thinks he should be. I won't bore you with it, though.

[Anonymous No.7843291]

>>7843280
>implying the man who's never given an interview in his life is concerned with how people perceive him

[Anonymous No.7843346]

If his latest novels come out of any insecurity, it's probably an insecurity about nearing death and being under-read. Pynchon is a man of the people, but the people don't read him; critics read him, professors read him, but the men and women he passes on the street every day haven't read a word of him. The fact that his novels have been more accessible lately could stem from his feeling like he wants to reach a broader audience not for more money, but just to connect with people more. The young man wanted the critical acclaim and the awards, but the old man just wants to be read.

[Anonymous No.7843357]

>>7843346

My theory >>7843290 is similar to this also.

[Anonymous No.7843393]

>>7843291
or perhaps he places so much value in his public perception that he avoids interviews out of a terror of being judged harshly?

[Anonymous No.7843420]

French writer becomes Muslim,becomes director of Internet company, goes in to space.
Or something like that

[Anonymous No.7843424]

it's gonna be sci-fi, we went from inherent vice, to bleeding edge, to the next futuristic pulp thriller set in the near future

[Anonymous No.7843437]

>>7843393
If some blogger caught up with him and asked him for a comment, and he spilled his spaghetti, would you be disappointed or happy.

[Anonymous No.7843455]

>>7843437
>in 1998, a South African reporter pursued the author, took an awful photo, and tried to shake his hand. (“Get your fucking hand away from me,” Pynchon said.)

unlikely desu

[Anonymous No.7843464]

>>7843291
he just knows that he gets more PR by being a recluse. See the main character Bill in DeLillo's novel Mao II (the character is pretty obviously partly based on Pynchon).

>>7843185
On topic:
It's going to be about an American student studying Chinese who reads Confucius in the original traditional Chinese and discovers secret prophecies in the text. He does some research and realizes that the prophecies that concerned the time between Confucius' death and the present have all come true. The prophecy also says something about the next year, but he is unsure about the translation. He thinks that the next prophecy says that great power will come the one who jerks the most, yet it is about who LURKS the most. In his effort to jerk off as much as possible he constantly lurks /gif/ and thus maybe fulfilling the prophecy anyway. The novel ends with the student thinking about what Confucius might have meant with 'great power' and whether he actually did the translation correctly.

[Anonymous No.7843500]

The final book of ASOIAF

[Anonymous No.7843918]

>>7843464
I would read that book. Please write it anon.

[Anonymous No.7843968]

>>7843464
This is great.

[Anonymous No.7843990]

>>7843464
Pynchon get off /lit/ and write the book already

[Anonymous No.7844001]

>>7843239
Who do you think does the voice?

[Anonymous No.7844005]

>>7843250
Shh our secret writers ; )

[Anonymous No.7844107]

All wrong.
It'll be historical fiction surrounding the Civil War. Gonna be another tome.

[Anonymous No.7844655]

>>7844107
I didn't realize how much I needed this til now

[Anonymous No.7844694]

>>7844107
But Pynchon doesn't write historical fiction, he writes speculative fiction.

[Anonymous No.7844720]

>>7844694
>i am le clever semantics man xD

[Anonymous No.7844795]

>>7843464
What the fuck? this is so mediocre.

[Anonymous No.7844823]

If he ever writes another novel, which he truly might not, I'm hoping he sets it farther in the past than Mason & Dixon. Like ancient Greece, Egypt, Biblical times, maybe medieval England. Something like that.

[Anonymous No.7844898]

>>7844823
Oh hell that'd be great

[Anonymous No.7844928]

I hope it's about magicians & real magic.

[Anonymous No.7845478]

>>7843346

I like that

[Anonymous No.7845652]

>>7844823
Elizabethan England pls

[Anonymous No.7845973]

meme magik

[Anonymous No.7846997]

>>7845973
I fucking hope so

[Anonymous No.7847032]

He has another tome left in him. Even if he's going for something with more mass appeal I doubt he wants his last book to be "lite".

I remember someone here posting an idea of him writing a novel about the mysteries associated with Shakespeare which I thought was really neat

[Anonymous No.7847107]

>>7847032
I would ejaculate

[Anonymous No.7847292]

>>7847032
Breakspear on a Bungee Cord?

[Anonymous No.7847363]

You guys think good ole Tommy has ever published anything under a pseudonym?

I'm fairly certain he has (though I have no concrete proof).

[Anonymous No.7847373]

>>7847363
If you're thinking it's that Cow Country book then I completely disagree with you. It reads nothing like a Pinecone.

[Anonymous No.7847381]

>>7847373

>Cow Country book

I have no idea what you're talking about.

[Anonymous No.7847408]

>>7847381
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/12/books/pynchon-intrigue-abounds-over-cow-country.html?_r=0

[Anonymous No.7847584]

>>7847373
>>7847381

I can 100% confirm that Cow Country was not Pynchon

[Anonymous No.7847591]

>>7847584

>I can 100% confirm that Cow Country was not Pynchon

Are you the Adrian Jones Pearson pseudonym then?

[Anonymous No.7847601]

>>7844823
That sounds nice on paper, but Pynchon is an inherently American author. I don't think he would try that, not that it would be any good.

[Anonymous No.7847604]

>>7847591
pls be a vampire

[Anonymous No.7847619]

>>7847373
>>7847584
I have no idea how the rumour even started. If you've read a single Pynchon book you can start to identify his style which is completely absent in Cow Country. Im convinced people just bring it up as some kind of ongoing joke

[Anonymous No.7847714]

>>7847619
Some retard who works for Harpers thought it'd make for an amusing blog post and ran with it. That's basically how the rumor spread. I agree that Pinecone has a very distinct style that's immediately recognizable when you read something of his.

[Anonymous No.7849611]

(aint engineering like a square no way)
I’m doped right now
man vineland is good!
if you agree with bloom ...
would you please.. get out of here

this pynchon right here
is awfully crazy, better annotate it
i fear government
and corporations i’m politically jaded
hash and red cap while i read
but american sublime is all i need
finish with v, read bleeding edge,
mason and dixon time to read again
man i love pynchon

i wanna read pynchon for the rest of my life
put proust aside, i’m done with james joyce
put on some miles, plasticman is so choice,
i love watching cartoons made for young boys
so pack me a bowl, let’s read on
sucked in by the prose, whats goin on
i’m slothrop in london, head of achtung
got a big dong, no inamorata anon
always on the run, the zone ain’t no fun
you never did, the kenosha kid
your words aren’t wasted, when you write by waste and,
just read ‘last song’ and all i can say

this pynchon right here
is awfully crazy, better annotate it
i fear government
and corporations i’m politically jaded
hash and red cap while i read
but dense pomo plots are all need
finish ATD, read inherent vice,
skim slow learner, back to slothrop’s plight
man i love pynchon

i can’t tell you what i learned from pomo,
i could recite a plot line or two
you know of course they hold some truths, like:
when a conditioned cock detected bombs
and when the mechanical duck turned its poop on
or when mondaugen crashed at foppl's too long
or stencil had a one letter clue to go on
read against the day like 'what the hell is goin on?'
hard to complain when the chums are so damn fun
words aren’t wasted, when you mail by waste and,
rereading V and all i can say is ...

( und so weiter . . . )

[Anonymous No.7850526]

I would really love to have a recorded interview with Pynchy before he kicks the bucket... I wish there was one from like the 70's that was recorded but isn't allowed to be shown until his death.

[Anonymous No.7850558]

>>7849611
Holy shit.

[Anonymous No.7851156]

>>7847601
that's true but I think Pynchon is ultimately interested in America's cultural roots, even if those roots exceed the geographical limitations of what the USA is. It's easier to imagine a pynchon novel set in 16th century england than 16th century north america.

[Anonymous No.7851175]

>>7849611

this bro smoked so much weed he literally turned into pynchon AY LMAO

[Anonymous No.7851190]

Pynchon died before Mason and Dixon got published. The remaining books were written by a couple of ghostwriters.
Source : I know his family

[Anonymous No.7851225]

>>7851190
This is not true

source: I am a Pynchon