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>"read Gravity's Rainbow, it's a masterpiece"
>old guy eats shit and drinks piss

>> No.9185170

I can't think of any instances where eating shit and drinking pee was better written.

>> No.9185210

poo poo pee pee
pepe is derivative art

>> No.9185215
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9185215

>taking reading advice from edgy murrican teenagers

>> No.9185251

>>9185163
>>9185170
>>9185210
Is this really what Gravity's Rainbow is about?

>> No.9185256

>>9185251
It's about Bananas you dingus

>> No.9185267

>>9185163
Thanks for spoiling the book you BITCH

>> No.9185543

>>9185251
It's about Dodo birds you dodo

>> No.9185616

>>9185251
Pynchon is basically a 4chan shitposter before the internet existed, dude's obsessed with 'ironic' racism, deviancy/homosex, gratuitous scat fetish stuff, and being edgy in general.

>> No.9185646

>>9185616
don't forget unironically believing in 9/11 conspiracy theories and probably a whole host of others he doesn't care to write books about.

>> No.9185650

>>9185646
>tfw there's a chance Pynchon might have unironically gone alt right

>> No.9185834

>>9185650
Where the fuck did you get that from? If anything, Pynchon would be a huge SJW.

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>>9185163
>dies from E.coli

the end

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>>9185251

>> No.9186016

>>9185923

boner

>> No.9186026

>>9185923
I don't want to read this book anymore

>> No.9186036

>>9186026
M&D is better anyways

>> No.9186057

>>9185834
dfw is the sjw
pynchon has transcended

>> No.9186063

>read thread
>« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » post
>get cancer

>> No.9186068

>>9186057
This. It's hard to read DFW without getting the feeling he'd write a speech for Obama or Trudeau and lecture poor people about gender pronouns of upper class trannies.

>> No.9186077

>>9186068
maybe he would have done so for a quick buck, but remember, dude voted for Reagan twice

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>>9185923
Certainly not the tour de force I was expecting. More of a tour de force.... of the bowels.

>> No.9186949

>>9186068
t. somebody who hasn't read Consider the Lobster

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>>9185923
Wtf, I like scat now?

>> No.9187220

>>9185923
pomo everyone

>> No.9187222

>>9186026
I want to read this book now

>> No.9187346

>>9185923
>tfw you've never read infinite jest, finnegans wake, or gravity's rainbow because they seem awful and whenever you read a longer passage it's SO much worse than you imagined

>> No.9187493

>>9187346
okay

>> No.9187537

>>9185917
He actually does

>> No.9187541

>>9186928
>>9185917
>>9185215
>>9185163
Post em!

Btw >>9185163 wut you Tolkien a boat?

>> No.9187548

>>9185923
Does anyone else just think it reads comically?

>> No.9187559

>>9187548
Pynchon?
Comic?

no way!

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>>9185923
>The brigadiers come quickly

>> No.9187596

>>9186026
That's not the worst part. I found the castration scene harder to read.

>> No.9187604

>>9187596
Some of the pedophilia was pretty scandalous too.

>> No.9188068

>>9185163
Doesn't get rolling till book 3 and really good until reread

>> No.9188085

>>9186068
>leftism squeals Obama and transgender people

what the fuck is wrong with Americans

>> No.9188162

>>9185923
>people who don't see the metaphor for the unseen horrors of war that haunt people and poison their souls leading to their inevitable deaths from their unseen wounds via suicide
Plebs the fucking lot of you.

>> No.9188182

>>9188162
That's not very nice

>> No.9188342

>>9187220
>pomo everyone
The Earth is worthless and ruined because I just had Diarrhea

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>>9188162
>unseen horrors of war
>somehow invoked by a guy eating shit and jerking off

>> No.9189011

>>9188638
well, I mean, he directly mentions it

>> No.9189253

ITT: newfags
Man, have all of you guys seriously not read Gravity's Rainbow? For how much the book is meme'd on here, I'd assume that the majority of you have actually read it. Besides, the shit-eating part wasn't even that bad. There's far more depraved shit that happens in the book.

>> No.9189266

>>9187346
Gravity's Rainbow has some genuinely GOAT passages, though.

>> No.9189282

>>9189253
The little kicks of razored cunt... Hideous.

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>>9189266
>Hey, you're Mickey Rooney

>> No.9189324

>>9188085
>4chan is Americans

Learn something new every day.

>> No.9189566

What was the point of the whole toiletship/electric frog part? Did pynchon come up with the log cabin joke himself?

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>"read Moby Dick, it's a masterpiece"
>interracial gay sex

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>>9185923
Now that's what I call shitposting!

>> No.9189747

>>9187222
Same

>> No.9189761

Wait is that book actually really weird? I've never read it, but I've been recommending it to people for a long time now to seem cultured.

I hope you guys didn't fuck me again

>> No.9189811

>>9189761
They think you're a pervert now.

>> No.9189858

>>9189761
>recommending something you've never read
I can tell your circle of friends is largely uncultured and uneducated to take your opinion at its worthless face value, like swine in human form eating their grub. Everyone I know won't bother to even hear you out unless you can explain what makes a work worthwhile, and go into detail on any influences it has had on you.

>> No.9189875

>>9189689
That picture is fucking wonderful

The sad part is I haven't watched this show for several years so for a while i thought they were real examples

>> No.9189883

>>9185923
Why though?

>> No.9189884

>>9189858
You sound like you got a lot of vaccines when you were a kid

>> No.9189891

>all these plebs who haven't read GR

what the hell are you doing on this board? it's lit canon. stick to r/books

>> No.9189918

>>9189883
It's a single passage out of a 700+ page book.

Pynchon's eruditeness is overrated, he uses beautiful, big words, but at the core of his books are a core of set tenants that he more than makes sure he demonstrates

>> No.9189942

>>9189761
Don't worry, none of them made it past the first page

>> No.9190038

>>9186057
>>9186068
>>9186068
Yikes. I've been absent from /lit/ for a bit but the fact that they think Pynchon is alt-right just shows how low the reading comprehension and, in general, the practice of reading on this board truly is... lol

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-watts.html

Smell ya later, brainlets.

>> No.9190199

>>9190038
my favorite /Pynchon/core

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/05/18/reviews/pynchon-luddite.html

>> No.9190213

>>9189918
you're a fucking idiot

way to define what a novel is

>pynchon wrote a novel hurrrr

I bet you think you're smart...

>> No.9190223

The shit-eating scenes are meant to show you just how uncomfortable war is supposed to make you in an age of incessant entertainment being made about conflict.
War is waste. It's eating shit for the sake of nothing, really. This ties into Pynchon's hinting at a broader conspiracy of the allies and axis in secret cahoots in regards to Slothrop's research.

God, you people can't think sometimes.

>> No.9190260

>>9190038
The whole of Pynchon's output is directly criticizing the powers that be...
He also champions the lower class. I really don't know what these /pol/tards are on about, really.
I wish this board didn't get injected with overly-ironic and depressed 18 year olds.

>> No.9190267

>>9189918
Say "core" again

>> No.9190277

>>9189918
> but at the core of his books are a core of set tenants that he more than makes sure he demonstrates

Oh, really? No way! it's like he's a writer writing a novel or something. Shit...

Is the sky blue as well?

>> No.9190279

>>9190260
Find some IRL friends and discuss literature with them. Unless you're socially awkward, in which case you're stuck with us depressed 18-year-olds.

>> No.9190290

>>9190279
I can't stand "literary" types in real life.

They're all dim English majors...
Also talking about shit like that irl is boring af.

>> No.9190296

>>9190290
Well then, since you're here in hell, you might stop wasting everyone's time by complaining about the heat.

>> No.9190303

>>9190277
But all Gravity's Rainbow is, is a connection of well written, planned anecdotes. They are ALL symbolic, and every single one has a theme.

Being interested in economics, I liked Byron the Light bulb's story the best. Planned obsolescence is a horrifying thought.

>> No.9190309

>>9190303
I can tell you're one of those people who gets off on explaining obvious constructs to people...

Good lordy lord.

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I haven't read GR.

Didn't like it.

>> No.9190346

>>9190309
No, just discussing literature.

>> No.9190386

>>9185256
>man slips on banana peel
>"Kill myself"

I legitimately laughed at that.

>> No.9190485

>>9190267
Still true though. I say this a guy who read V after GR. The basic template is there... also there are some correspondences that were posted here that some guy found in a library? Does anybody have those?

>> No.9191044

>>9190346
A series of planned, symbolic anecdotes is LITERALLY just literature, they're getting triggered because there is no point to your posts

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>>9185923

>> No.9191496

>>9189891
>All these plebs on /lit/
Hi newfriend.

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>>9190485
i only saved this one

>> No.9191776

>>9188162
Nice
M
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M
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>> No.9192146

>>9191743
nice

>> No.9192172

>>9190223

Would't that have been better expressed by writing an essay or something?

>> No.9192185

>>9192172
not necessarily?

>> No.9192231

>>9192185
Back the fuck off?

>> No.9192821

>>9191044
yah, if you read Pynchon you'd understand what he means