/lit/ - Literature

holy cringe

>>3044361
It is both. But the importance is in its verb-ness. An act can be an attribute of being that is the substance, but its rhythm through space time is a phenomenon most people never consider. we say "that heavenly creature" and assume that because we have distinguished something as a creature and set it apart from its class by calling it heavenly we have become familiar with it. But then it starts sucking your cock and your like, I think therefore I am gay hurdur

>>3044354

To him he seemed There, external, but he was a cocksucker before he began his cocksucking.

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>>3044344

Useful post

Being is not a noun, but a verb.

NEXT

http://mindhacks.com/
http://arstechnica.com/

why don't you just read Thomas Campbell's "My Big Toe"? http://books.google.com/books?id=RYHtBPiZVgsC&printsec=frontcover&dq=my+big+toe+thomas+campb
ell&hl=no&ei=yxGWTtydCYbqOf-F7e0K&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=3&amp
;ved=0CDYQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q&f=false Or Jane Robert's "Seth - Nature of true personality"? http://books.google.com/books?id=Hmd7cmnzJKgC&printsec=frontcover&dq=jane+roberts&hl=no&
amp;ei=ARKWTrKwAtCVOtD5pa4H&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved
=0CD0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q&f=false

So I read Treasure Island recently, Tom. It was pretty badass.

>>1946520
We make our own topic, friend. We'll be together forever, tighter than Jesus and George W. Bush.

>>1946510
I'm here for you whenever you need me, I'm an open ear. Your problems can be solved by me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HaVXfHZv50Y

We all need someone, I can be that someone for you.

>>1946488
>two hours
>five minutes until the thread is deleted

:} you're still off topic champ.

>>1946474
D&E, if you're going to crash this thread, please, I beg of you, at least stay on topic. I've posted a very healthy and useful review of Crying of Lot 49 by Pynchon, what have you done on topic?

Oh, ha, that's right: FUCKING NOTHING.

>>1946467

>>1946441
This conspiracy of everything goes so far that our main characters initial problem (the execution of a dead lovers will) has become completely forgotten. Our heroine uncovers the most unlikely of plots, not a plot of murder, not a plot of theft, not even a plot to gain power, but instead a plot to deliver mail. You read it right, the conspiracy is that of an alternative postal service.

>>1946427
The novel starts with a seemingly regular happenstance, and from that point no only builds into a greater and greater sense of paranoia. In most books with similar openings you would see, near the end of the book, these things being cleared up and all of the questions answered; however, Pynchon, instead, only adds more to the pile of questions. He makes the work more incoherent and seemingly pointless by the "conspiracy of everything" fulfilling itself by encompassing not only America entire, but also Europe and even into (hidden) history.

>>1946424
(despite my not liking the book) nigh* perfect

>>1946410
However, despite not liking the book in general, Pynchon's grasp of psychological paranoia is night perfect. With predecessors like Orwell, Lovecraft and Kafka who brought paranoia into a main theme (and atmosphere) in literature, Pynchon takes it to an entirely new level: not the paranoia of one thing, or even one conspiracy (see Orwells 1984), but rather the conspiracy of EVERYTHING.

>>1946403
Pynchon's work in Lot 49 seems to be almost completely incoherent, he's set out to bring you through a proverbial house of mirrors, and the work actually feels like it. At times you're unsure if some of the actions taken in the book are reality, or merely fantasy, I would go so far as to say even merely a simulacrum; and even at times it feels like you've ran completely into a dead end.

>>1946394

I've been told it's a good start for Pynchon (it's my first), but I'm honestly not liking it very much so far.

>>1946400

There is more, pic related.

I started Crying of Lot 49, Tom, since you were so polite to post on topic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsDugITBANI

>>1943954

No, I haven't, any of his novels in particular you would suggest?

>>1943972
It's Joyce's fictional representation of himself, I think.

Currently reading Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man. Pretty fucking cool, bro.