/lit/ - Literature

>>6723558
He's just new as fuck and too retarded to realize /v/ ruins everything. Ignore him.

>The New Testament
>The Divine Comedy
>All of Shakespeare
>Ulysses
>Finnegans Wake
>Infinite Jest
>Zettels Traum

Gulliver's Travels - Jonathan Swift
J R - William Gaddis
Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon

>>6720312
So read something else in conjunction

>>6720510
:^)

I don't read very much poetry as yet but The Waste Land really struck me

>>6720234
eventually it will mention that his mother fucking mid east attache's is a point of resentment for orin, and also you should not Orin probably has fucked the members of the ladies' tennis group before the events of the novel

>>6720425
>One doesn't need to fear spoilers so much when the work's plot is disclosed in such a disjointed way. IJ isn't a genre novel and, as with any piece of post-modern literature, the chances are slim that the plot (such as it is) will have any kind of neat resolution the impact of which would be diminished by knowing any given detail ahead of time

Perfectly put. I began reading both GR and IJ because of "spoilers" and then by 1/4 through realized how silly that notion was w/r/t the works.

>>6719039
>but man.. you can't expect NO repercussions
Yes, you can. It's a fucking cartoon. If they are so barbaric/immature to react to a cartoon drawing with mass violence it's obviously a backwards retarded way of thinking. Honestly Sam Harris is right in condemning tolerance of religious wackadoos.

>>6718919
You got rekt newfag. Go buy the 500 page memebook and lurk moar.
>I have been hear for one month and as the arbiter if discourse I have decided we are lazy and...

lmfao

>>6715339
>definitely wrong about it being ortho
Oh well fuck

>>6714792
It's definitely stice. Hal's only room mate is Mario.

>tfw Kate Gompert and Ken Erdedy are a bit too close to home

Did anyone else notice Schtitt's speech mirrors exactly Hal's dream of indecipherable playing lines and an opponent he can't quite see?
>>6709087
>The saudi is watching Infinite Jest
Yeah at this point I think it's not enough of a spoiler to try and evade, you're obviously correct.
>>6710194
The film is released one year after Hal's perspective of the event, and the filmography is admittedly not rock-solidly accurate. Considering editing and release I would say it's ostensibly one event.

>>6709518
You're pretty much on track, you'll know when the particulars of James are being expanded on. How far are we scheduled to be today in the 90's somewhwere yeah?

>>6709087
>>6709036
I pointed out stuff about the individual film contents here>>6707689

>>6707689
Oh whoops I switched Cage III and Various Small Flames up in my mindbrain. sleep it is I guess.

So we see how involved JOI is with nuclear technology (!!!!) so lets examine the filmography. I think the Cage series is important, the first one showing the theme of parodying entertainment (and all done with one woman and mirrors (who in the story is a self obsessed woman?)) the second one showing difficulties in communication, the third showing someone getting basically cucked (various small flames, I mean come on). Three Cheers for Cause and Effects is obviously about Avril and seems to hint JOI knew he was distant. Cage III I think it basically what it seems to be, you can engage in life and be harshly judged or stand back and just become a huge gawker.

Many of the films show his feelings about Avril including fun with teeth and I think kinds of pain as well. The American Century as Seen Through a Brick seems to mirror the entertainment's journey. Mobius Strips is... Important, shall we say. Blood Sister: One Tough Nun I swear is ripped straight from Vineland, which it almost seems all of infinite jest is ripped from DFWs comment about vineland "spent 20 years smoking weed and watching television" or whatever. Infinite Jest IV stars Madame Psychosis. Valuable Coupon Has Been Removed and As of Yore are memories of James' childhood we see in great detail later on . Baby Pictures of Famous Dictators is Eschaton as a film. Low Temperature Civics seems to be about geopolitical relations and The Entertainment.

Safe Boating is No Accident, Very Low Impact, The Night Wears a Sombrero, Dial C for Concupiscence, Insubstantial Country, and The Film Adaptation of Peter Weiss' etc are all mirrors of the novel at large.

>Too Much Fun
>The Unfortunate Case of Me
>Sorry All Over The Place
Keep these unfinished films in mind regarding James and the novel as a whole.

Dunno if I'm gonna do the rest of todays reading tonight, I'm wiped.

I spent about a week going through his website, watched a couple of his videos; I like him, he's pretty cool. I might read his book sometime. I found out about him and the 4 million word smash bros fanfic at the same time, and as funny as the latter sounded to me initially, Ulillillia actually was.

He's a fuckin' trooper man. He will never finish his game.

I wondered if you would come back

I missed you

Kingdom of Fear is an autobiography of sorts

Screwjack is like 60 pages and just three short fucked up stories, pretty good but don't pay money for it though.

>>6464604
>Image board culture has litetally destroyed my brain

Dude go outside. For like a week.

>>6460921
>>6460973
You guys are plebs.

>>/lit/thread/S5942874

>>6460791
This is Women and Men, right?

>>6460245
Pynchon also opens books with characters waking up with sun coming through the windows (Vineland) and descriptions of clothing (V.)