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>>13741032
RIP

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I fucking hate Thomas Pynchon so much. I just got home after a small house party where our host made us play Pynchon trivia quiz and all the other guests agreed because they were vile bugmen. Even my girlfriend wanted to do that because she's read all those turgid and overwritten books and watched the Simpsons episodes he's in. Later on she got genuinely upset because I knew no answers besides the ones to 2-3 very simple questions. I knew that there was no point in reminding her that I'm only into modernist fiction because I'd instantly get booed by those vulgar redditors.

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The trajectory of his career follows the trajectory of his life. He went from a young, brilliant, cynical but earnest hippie who loved drugs and saw some real potential to change the world to a jaded ex-hippie who is more down to Earth. His newer work is more sentimental, it isn't as dark and malevolent and cripplingly paranoiac. The goofiness is still there, same with the dives into the surreal, but it's more lucid in its portrayal of characters. I reckon Mason & Dixon changed dramatically over the course of its writing to the warm, familial piece we have now, so it's more transitional than Vineland even.
Pinecone alleviated his paranoia with a retreat to his family, which shines through in Bleeding Edge; Inherent Vice is his reflection back on his time as a hippie, and how unstable of a movement it really was. He's still socially conscious, he's still at the core an anti-authority boomer, but he's mellowed out and I'm sure is a much happier person for it.

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I can't take any criticism of Pynchon serious. Every time I see it I just imagine this smug grin in the background, totally above the scenario.

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Jewish MILF footjobs

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goodnight sweet prince.

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Boomers: the author

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In 5th grade we had a Holocaust unit as well, but instead of being assigned a book the teacher had us pair up and create a presentation based on a list of topics she provided. My best friend and I picked "The V-2 Rocket," which I assume was on the list because of Mittelwerk. We ignored that completely and instead made a presentation on the rocket's design, Operation Paperclip, Wernher von Braun, and the U.S. space program. I don't think we mentioned the Jews once, yet we got an A.

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What is the best pinecone book

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>>13333788
>>tfw google the CIA, the new york times goldman sachs and the RAND corporation have done more for the inclusion of marginalised folks than all try gard radical leftists white men put together

large if true

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What did he mean by this?

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"A lot of publications have been asking my opinion on the new restoration so I might as well weigh in. I think Peter did a great job with the project and he had my moral and financial support throughout. However, I cannot help but question the notable absence of the "Kenosha Kid" scene from the final release, as it was my favourite scene from my Welles cut. For those who haven't seen Welles' original cut (which I assume is mostly everybody), the Kenosha Kid scene consists entirely of Orson Welles interviewing American novelist Thomas Pynchon on his writing process and use of metaphysical and religious symbolism in his 1973 masterpiece Gravity's Rainbow. This scene was guest directed by Stanley Kubrick. I think that Peter omitted this scene because it broke from the already fractured narrative film, but I find it incredibly valuable as it is the only time Pynchon has ever been filmed and Pynchon confirms in it that Orson Welles is the "Kenosha Kid" from the unofficially dubbed eponymous grammatical exploration from Gravity's Rainbow. That being said, perhaps it is best that Pynchon's visage remains hidden from the public in accordance with his wishes. I, however, will continue to screen this regularly in the seclusion of my Malibu home."

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>goes from right wing racist to accepting fun loving goofball liberal during the latter part of his career

What did Pynch mean by this?

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>Kit had begun to notice Russians in the Weenderstraße. Yashmeen was convinced they were in town to spy on her. They were trying to blend in, but certain telltale nuances—fur hats, huge unkempt beards, a tendency in the street to drop and begin dancing the kazatsky to music only they could hear—kept giving them away.

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>As I entered, the room was flooded with a pungent aroma and enough smoke to induce an immediate contact high; I coughed. A long, lanky young man was methodically rolling joints on the table; his stash box was a One-a-Day Brand Multivitamin pill bottle. He carefully finished rolling and extended the bomber to me, saying, "Hey, man, would you like a joint?" (This was Berkeley 1967; people really talked that way back then.) I took a toke gladly; it was obvious by the fog in the room that they were way ahead of me.

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Novels about unironic autism and similar conditions? I can think of movies (Rain Man, A Beautiful Mind, etc), but not fiction.

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>>13192184
This

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>>13172566
*blocks your path*

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>>13131998
Is he wrong?

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I think that if a person gives himself completely to his interests he's capable of anything desu

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