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 yearsPic related
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>>24944600That's what They want you to think...
>>24944600What's schizophrenic about that?
>>24944600You don't come out of schizophrenia writing something like Mason and Dixon. Contrary to Internet opinion, schizophrenics are retards who can barely understand human speech. Analogy, metaphor, simile, symbolism is all beyond the average schizo brain. With age, the retardation gets worse.So, no, Pynchon wasn't schizophrenic.PKD is classic amphetamine abuse, which does lead to episodes of psychotic cognition indistinguishable from acute schizophrenia.
>>24944612why?
>>24944632Tristero?
>>24944708>Contrary to Internet opinion, schizophrenics are retards who can barely understand human speech.Contrary to Internet opinion, schizophrenia, like all mental illness, varies in form depending on the IQ, with low-functioning and high-functioning individuals. Ted Kaczynski was vehement he wasn't schizophrenic but he was diagnosed as such and may just be an example of a highly-functioning schizophrenic
