It is pretty much Fahrenheit written from the perspective of the immoral majority instead of the moral minority. The actions of the moral minority will never make sense to the immoral majority, especially when things seem to be working out failry well as far as they can see.

Been enjoying you giving me a chance to Brautigan post, it has been a ahile.

>>24684765
>It is pretty much Fahrenheit
Fahrenheit 451. Fucking track pad.

>>24684765
To add to this. Brautigan was always the outsider looking in and trying to figure out what he was missing, instead of the outsider looking in and seething. While the seething does serve a purpose, it is myopic and arrogant, Brautigan understood this and understanding this is important to understanding his writing.

It really does feel good to Brautigan post again.

>>24684765
You're saying that inBOIL is the good guy?

>>24685796
No, I am saying that inBOIL is a fact of life, a constant, 4chan.

>>24685972
Would you care to explain what these things are:

1. iDEATH
2. the trout hatchery
3. the Forgotten Works
4. Margaret
5. Charley
6. watermelons/watermelon sugar

>>24686175
>1. iDEATH
Society. Society keeps changing and evolving but inBOIL and his ilk are constants, they never really adapt to the constant changes and evolution of society. The moral minority will always cling to morality as they understand it ignoring morality in context of the immoral majority, so they will always lose and their actions and arguments will always seem nonsenical to the immoral majority.
>2. the trout hatchery
It is a trout hatchery, it provides basic necessities of life for the inhabitants of Watermelon Sugar. From inBOIL's perspective these necessities are frivolous and we can extrapolate them out to things like heating/AC, the internet, phones, etc. This is not symbolism, more analogy.
>3. the Forgotten Works
That which has been forgotten by the immoral majority. The allusion being that The Forgotten Works are the old society from before, "trad" life and the question implied being; if trad life was so great, why did it die? It is not quite that simple and really it just refers to societies past.
>4. Margaret
Margret.
>5. Charley
Charley.
>6. watermelons/watermelon sugar
Pretty much the same as the trout hatchery, the trappings of life and that which makes modern life possible.

Number 1 being the important one and the one we interpret the rest through and really is the same as number 3. Screaming at people will never work, nor will writing dystopian fiction like Fahrenheit 451, BNW, 1984, etc because they are static, they will never evolve with society and society will always bend them to the current state of society. In Watermelon Sugar avoids this trap, sure people can miss the point but it is easy to to demonstrate that they missed the point, not so easy with other dystopian novels. The entire idea of a dystopia is based on bending Utopia to agenda and missing the point of Utopia. The deeds were done as my life was done, or more directly, the deeds were done as our lives are done.

>>24684775
>It really does feel good to Brautigan post again.
When was the last time you Brautigan posted?

>>24686631
The Trout Fishing in America thread a few days ago that I assumed OP also made. Before that, no clue.

I found this book to be very eerie and it gave me a deeply unsettled vibe. It didn't help that I read it in one go on the hottest weekend of that summer while I was manic. Truly miserable experience. 0/10 would NEVER read again.

>>24687413
That is a weird reaction to it. When I first read it I had been up for about 30 hours when I first started reading while waiting for a bus to go home and sleep. Spent the next ~8 hours alternating between reading a few pages, dozing off, and missing buses because dozed off, until I finished it and finally did not miss the bus because I had dozed off. It suited the book quite well.

>>24687413
>very eerie
It reminded me of one of Murakami's novels. That one where he's dragging that shadow around in the afterlife or whrever it was. Wonder if he read Brautigan.