Is Thomas Pynchon schizophrenic?I've always heard that PKD is a schizo but I think PKD's were more like manic psychotic breaks than full-blown schizophrenia.Pynchon was in his late 20s when he wrote V. and the Crying of Lot 49 and in mid-30s when he wrote Gravity's Rainbow. He's led the life of a total recluse since. Makes me think he started experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia in his 20s, as is usual, and then it progressed and he went into hiding.After GR he wouldn't release another book (Vineland) for almost 20 years
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>>24940571PKD was a crackhead, child. Never mention him in the same sentence as Pynchon again.
>>24940593Ubik is a masterpiece thoughbeit
>>24940635>Ubik is a masterpiece
>>24940593PKD is better than Pynchon. Anyone who isn't a pretentious midwit knows that.
>>24940652nice argument
>>24940771>nice argument
>>24940571Avoiding celebrity life is not the same as being a recluse. Retard.
>>24940635What makes it a masterpiece? It is kind of fun but the book hinges on a simple omission that can only be guessed at which prevents him from developing the ideas of the novel to any depth. He did the whole what is reality thing much better in A Scanner Darkly, he lets the reader in on the secret and that allows him to use it and explore it instead of just jumping out and going "gotcha! didn't see that coming, did you!"
Schizos couldn't write a coherent 700 page novel>well neither could PynchonYuk yuk
He's not schizo, he's CIA.
>>24941278He wasn't alone
>>24941278>he's CIAYup. You probably don't get access to technical reports and internal documents related to guided missiles at Boeing during the Cold War without a glowie clearance. Among many, many, many other "coincidences"
>AIslop
>>24941305Kindly list some of these ‘coincidences’Also what was the point of intelligence writing these books?
>>24941884>Also what was the point of intelligence writing these books?To anoint feelings of despair and perverted lust as the approved virtues of the new bourgeois making them easier to control.>My favorite author is a paranoid, degenerate just like me. Accelerate the collapse! and I'll continue being be a prideful, hedonist in the meantime.The elite are happy to oblige as soon as they have the new techno-feudal infrastructure in place.
>>24940593>>24940652>immediate newfag rheroticDick is a better writer than anybody you adore, nigger.
>>24940571A master psychiatrist walks among us, anons.
