/lit/ - Literature

[Herman Ritter No.7875879]

What's your favorite chapter?

[Phillip Watts No.7875909]

Chapter 5, when Oedipa wanders through the night. One of my favorite passages in any book.

[Noel Arias No.7876092]

I enjoyed the one where she went to see the Courier's Tragedy play

[Lonnie Pitts No.7876134]

>>7875879
I liked when that one character smoked weed and was paranoid.

[Mary Thompson No.7876152]

Courier's Tragedy

[Don Powell No.7876171]

>>7875909

Loved the general ambiance of that passage.

So let's say they make it into a film, who would you pick to direct? I think the scene with the old guy and Oedipa watching the movie together should be done by a joint director, I got a Wes Anderson vibe from the film with the dog in the sub.

>>7876152

Also this.

[Rhonda Love No.7876220]

The play was the worst part. Eat shit.

[Michele Blackburn No.7876234]

>>7875879
>defend my mental image of Oedipa being black
>black sounding name IMO
>told shes white
>this cover

[Tammie Cohen No.7876237]

Chapter 3 I think ... The one about the play

[Christina Rasmussen No.7876246]

>>7876220
This. Felt a bit like filler

[Essie Bird No.7876301]

>>7876234
>Blue anime hair

Oedipa is my Waifu

[Marc Kennedy No.7876617]

>>7876171
Jim Jarmusch, without question. Same mix of cheeky humor and existential mystery.

[Sandra Lynn No.7876629]

>>7876301
>>7876234
Doesn't seem like Oedipa to me. She's a tightly wound housewife and too old to be a hippie. She also never dances in the book.

I always figured that was one of The Paranoids' girls on the cover.

>>7876246
>>7876220

The play is brilliant. I've even considered writing a full length version of it based off the events described in the text. I planned it out, anyhow.

[Rex Le No.7876735]

really liked the Maxwell's Demon part as one of the in-allegories famelies

[Stephen Cooke No.7876835]

>>7875879
its anniversary is coming up in about 3 weeks. what are we doing to honour it?

[Lauren Holt No.7876941]

>>7876835
send a lot of blank mail to people

[Evan Sweeney No.7876946]

>>7876246
>Felt a bit like filler
>Kinda like all those other unresolved tangents and details in the book

sure is reddit in here

[Lou Perkins No.7876963]

>>7876234
I always thought she was Mexican tbqhwyf

[Anonymous No.7878382]

>>7876134
haha its funny because it describes every pynchon book haha well played anon.

[Anonymous No.7878474]

>>7876092
>>7876152
>>7876237
Yep, that part had me dying. I was seriously in tears laughing.

[Anonymous No.7878478]

The play.

[Anonymous No.7878840]

where she meets metzger at the hotel and watches the baby igor film with him

[Bill Wilson No.7879234]

>>7876946
Fuck off he's right. There was no need to stretch that out to over ten pages. It was boring, pointless, and self indulgent.

[Anonymous No.7879246]

>>7876835
when was the anniversary? the 50th was last year

[Anonymous No.7879492]

>>7876946
Nah mate the unresolved tangeants aid the mystery and paranoid atmosphere.

The play however did not. It indulged (as >>7879234 also suggests) a
minor "coincidental" detail over ten pages whereas others were, as you said, left unsolved.

I get she'd remember it but not enough for ten pages and i seem to remember (though i may be wrong) certain aspects or plot points going over her head.

[Anonymous No.7879561]

>>7879234
>It was boring, pointless, and self indulgent

[Anonymous No.7879596]

>>7875909
Why tho?

>>7876092
>>7876152
Best.

>>7878840
2nd best.

Don't forget the Peter Pinguid society and the free will religion that everyone quits. Oh and the gasoline guy who started Inamorato Anonymous because love is an addiction.

[Anonymous No.7879602]

>>7879234

[Anonymous No.7879901]

>>7878840
This is definitely the high point of the book.