>hi every1 im new!!!!!!! *holds up spork* my name is Thomas Pynchon but u can call me t3h PeNgU1N oF d00m!!!!!!!! lol…as u can see im very random!!!! thats why i came here, 2 meet random ppl like me ^_^…"
>>25193661Jeetanon not taking the Andy Weir assblasting well.
Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.
>>25193693couldn't have put it better myself
>Lake and Deuce were married over on the other side of the mountains in a prairie church whose steeple was visible for miles, at first nearly the color of the gray sky in which it figured as little more than a geometric episode, till at closer range the straight lines began to break up, soon slipping every which way, like lines of a face seen too close, haggard from the assaults of more winters than anybody still living in the area remembered the full count of, weathered beyond sorrowful, smelling like generations of mummified rodents, built of Engelmann spruce and receptive to sound as the inside of a parlor piano. Though scarcely any music ever came this way, the stray mouth-harpist or whistling drifter who did pass through the crooked doors found himself elevated into more grace than the acoustics of his way would have granted him so far.
>>25193661This book is only taken serious is tasteless America. No one in Europe cares about Pynchon.
>>25193739I'm Europoor and GR is my favourite novel.
>>25193739ausfag here, readin' GR on my phone, been diving into it since the 90s when the talk.bizarre FAQ said you had to be able to explain the book to a girl scout troop before you vould post there.
>>25193661>>25193739>>25193742>>25193748To accept Pynchon as a quality writer is to garb yourself in a coat of hot pockets and video games and then writhe around on the ground in a supermarket while screeching and slapping yourself on the sides of your head.He is cheeto dust. Nothing more.Nothing more than a hack, a useful tool for publishers to trot out to say "Hey, we're making literary fiction!" I cannot wrap my head around the adulation he receives, let alone the wide praise this has got. The book trudges from set piece to set piece, leaves us no real questions or anything to think about really.The same bullet that kills a Foster Wallace fan will also kill the Pynchon and Delillo fan. They come from the same root, from the same doritos stained console. They are frauds, and as a warrior of literature it's my duty to expose the fakes and the inauthentic when I see them. I will fight with crawls and teeth until the last imposter is fallen to the groundI have about as much respect for Thomas Pynchon as I do for the dogshit on my shoe. It is reddit. It is video game hot pocket. It is capeshit. It is cheeto dust. I'm literally screaming right now and slamming my arms down on my desk just thinking about it.It is the most depraved video game infantilized manchild degeneracy. It is saturday morning cartoon. It is non-neurotypicality. It is memes. It is video game. It is tarantino. It is imdb.It is coca-cola puberty. it is axe body spray. it is a white stain on boxer shorts. it is arri alexa hot dog caffeine on disney channel.
>>25193784Ahyuk
>>25193661Here’s my confession, there ain’t no concession, who we contestin, here’s the fucking lesson: Not to be simplistic but bitch get offa this dick, you always get it twisted, but imma get you fisted, so much swag I get black listed, but you’re blacked like a plastic big lipped bitch, yo mamma playing quidditch with my golden snitch, fondle with her snatch and cum on her tits, fuck her arse and leave her shaking to bits!
>>25193661Holy FUARK is he really like this???
>>25193739I'm sure you know what tastes good, guzzler of semen.
>>25193837There once was a fellow named SlatteryWho was fond of the course-gyro battery.With that 50-volt shock,What was left of his cockWas all slimy and sloppy and spattery.
waow.... u sound way past c00l... can uh can i pwease h-have ur... a... autogwaph...? i-if thats okay wiv u!!!!
>>25193864Aw, jeepers, of course you beautiful little thing! How about going wiv good ol' Tommy to his little apartment, I'm give you all the autographs and British candy you want. A-And a fair bit more, if you catch my drift.
>>25193661
>>25193661Absolutely brvtal critique of postmodernism.
>>25193869>haha
>>25193869Two most pseud fanbases combining. Excellent.
>>25193872Critique?
>>25193876Pynchon mindbreaks people. They either go full pseud, or he cures them or pseudism and they go back to enjoying vidja, metal, cartoons, or whatever it is they were doing before they got into literature.
>>25193888this is genuinely what happened to me except now i enjoy all those things AND literature. he has been a wonderful influence on me and im thankful for his books
>>25193868O_O u mean like..... um.... l-like...? c-could i really have a...? FULL SET OF WILLIAM VOLLMANS WRITINGS!!!!!!!! and a huge penis in my bunghole please?
>>25193693I'm literally crying laughing. This is a reminder that I should never leave this place.
>>25193893Same. When I first got into Tolstoevsky & co. I genuinely believed in the superiority of literature above other art forms, I disavowed popular music and turned to classical. Now it's like I'm back in my early teens, watching Tarantino and action films, vibing to Zappa and Led Zep, playan' RPGs and strategy games. And of course still reading literature whenever I'm in the mood for it, which is often.
>>25193906You got a job son?
>>25193918Ye. The pay is poor, but I like what I'm doing.
yukyukyuk
>>25193869>y’allSo this is the kind of “man” who tells you you got “Pynched” or “Lynched”.
>>25193906>vibing to Zappachrist, this is like being reminded that there are indians posting on your favorite board
>>25194016A real Pinehead woulda said you'll
It's a shame Gravity's Rainbow is such a meme because Mason & Dixon is a genuine masterpiece
>>25194025
>>25194024Zappa is very Pynchonianhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXi_zoW-Wr4
>>25193661Lol. Why dude writes too much?
>>25193888>>25193893>>25193906>Pynch is a midwit magnetYeah, we already knew that. Let me guess, you're also american?
>>25194044>midwit magnetI feel this is the case with almost every venerated American author. All the postmodernists, writers like McCarthy, Burroughs, even Faulkner to an extent. It’s the 19th century author’s and poets who are free from that magnetism
>>25194064Come on, Tolstoevsky is like catnip to midwits.
>>25194067They are, yes. I mean to refer to the American authors from the 19th century. Leave Tolstoy alone though!
>>25193739Yeah, he's a very local artist. The Shania Twain of literature.
>>25193906Genuinely embarrassing post, but at least you're honest about being a poser I guess
>>25194089>he hasn't done anything embarrassing in his youth
>>25194077>Leave Tolstoy alone though!his wife and children did XD
>>25193906Updooted. This is what heckin adulting is ALLLL about!
>>25193739>No one in Europe cares about Pynchon.This isn't true. His following is huge in Germany.
Lmao this forced negativity over pynchon is kinda cringe y'all!
>pynchon fans are pseuds with a ram-rod stuck up their arse>pynchon fans are immature manchildrenWell, which is it?
>>25194106They go hand in hand.
>>25193906this post is everything, it makes me feel so seen
>>25193661Do you think if you asked Pynchon what time the narwhal bacons he’d be able to give you the correct answer?
>>25194186He's a shut-in, so I assume he posts here. He may even be OP.
>>25193661>>25193693These posts have to have been born from a spark of divine inspiration. I can't not believe in the existence something higher
>>25194195I think the jeremiah xbox one is the best, haven’t seen it in awhile though.
>>25194195That pasta is older than you, alphoomer.
(OP's pasta)
>>25194217The other one might very well be too. Even if it’s only been around for 10 or so years.
>>25194213Study Pynchon's big novels. They are long and they contain words that refer to high-brow things and other words that refer to low-brow things like candy. That's been the template for modern literature since Pynchon, and it's one Pynchon invented. Whenever a writer sits down to write an ambitious work, he first writes the big number 1000 on a piece of paper because that's how many pages he has to aim for. Then he makes two columns, High and Low. In the High column he puts all the things he learned in school, and in the Low column he puts all the mass-market products he indulges in because in the end he's a regular guy like you or me. Then he creates a McGuffin. Then he comes up with as many funny name as he can like "Jeremiah Xbox-Lewinsky." And then he strings together a bunch of wild scenes the characters star in while they search for the McGuffin. But of course they never get it, the post-Pynchon writer must end the book abruptly because to do otherwise would be to succumb to base mass-market narrative techniques and this is art, baby. And there you have it. It's not easy to do. I only thought of one funny name, but you have to think of at least 50.
>>25194224brb gonna try this and become a billionaire
>>25194224>Low column he puts all the mass-market products he indulges in because in the end he's a regular guy like you or me.>the post-Pynchon writer must end the book abruptly because to do otherwise would be to succumb to base mass-market narrative techniques and this is art, baby.My sides still missing, presumed deceased, from this.
>>25194224classic
>>25194044how do you define midwit
>>25193906high-quality bait
crazy how a guy shows character growth once and its called bait
>>25194348More like mental regression
>>25194224Tryhard
>>25194432Are you referring to the post itself? If so, keep your mouth shut, newfag
>>25194375by what metric is having a genuine appreciation for more things in life a regression
>>25194464Because those things are stupid and for plebs. If you listen to Taylor Swift and play video games while pretending to read high literature you know nothing of art.
>>25193739I'm from spain and i like Pynchon as well. >>25193784Stale pasta.
>>25194474And why, in your mind, are those things mutually exclusive? Is it because you like to feel special?
>>25193661is this a quote from gravity’s rainbow or hail mary?
>>25194474i have an album by God Dethroned playing rn, just got done with a russian yandere visual novel, and i have Tropic of Cancer and a book about the uzbeks im gonna give a shot later. i think i have more perspective than people that pigeonhole themselves into "high literature" and i get to make novel connections between disparate things in my head which i find pleasurable in itself. is this not a fair conclusion to draw
>>25194562i believe its meant to compare the randomness of GR with early internet emos and tumblr users
>>25194454I think he might have meant that to be a Pynchonesque name. Alexander Tryhard or something like that.
>>25194454your pasta sucks
All pynchon’s books in my head are like let’s smoke this hash in the 1940s and that does happen sometimes though not hardly enough
>>25194625that's actually a good point
>>25194625I can see it. Make him actually try hard, connect his story symbolically with a tri-heart of sorts and you've got a nice and proper Pynchonian name.
>>25194752Like pynchon only alludes to the like gnostic kabbalah rupturing of space time that allows for the rupturing of absolute newtonian space time or something like that
>>25194798>t. plotfag
>>25194106are you illiterate? the OP is directed at pynchons writing style, not his fans
>>25193784It's not like this gets any more true the more you repeat it
what was up with the femboy dressed as a bride in the rocket at the end
>>25193661>>25193693>>25193906
>>25194014>came thorough a hole in the nightWho came thru the hole?What hole?
>>25193661After reading a few Gravity's Rainbow threads and a summary, I can safely say I will never read any Pynchon.
>>25195860Your lossBut really, why is /lit/ so gay now? It's like /v/ hating on hl2 because it's good and popular. Is being contrarian more important to you guys than actually enjoying stuff?
>>25195879Sorry, man I just can't do musical numbers and layman science just irritates me. I'm a stemfag and almost certainly a plotfag. Hate me idgaf.
>>25195879>hl2 because it's good and popularlol hl2 was a tech demo, the source engine was popular you retard
>>25195884Pynch is a STEMfag too, did engineering physics
>>25195904Not a particularly adept one though was he? As evidenced by the fact that he’s a novelist
>>25195884>I just can't do musical numberspleb
>>25195904>no grad school >not even a BSdiggy shiggy
>>25195884>musical numbers and layman scienceit's a boomer humor thing
*sigh* do Pynchon faggots really?
>>25195970oh my fucking god dude, my favorite author is pynchon, fucking pound me please. i can regular bottom or power bottom. we can even talk about gravity's rainbow or son & xon or whatever pinecone book you want. i'm actually going to do my thesis on bleeding edge when i go to grad school next year. i just need that in my hole.i have poppers too
>>25193784Kek
>>25195993>world's straightest /lit/fag
>>25195928I've seen BScs outperform PhDs at work.
>>25194516>>25194573They are mutually exclusive. If you pretend otherwise you are only into literature performatively. Sorry you had to find out this way. Back to genre fiction or anime and video games with you!
>>25196244It's okay Stephen, one day you'll Bloom.
>>25196244but why. like what is the reason
>>25195919lmao kill yourself
>>25195993idk the post you were responding to but BASED
>>25196267>t. plotfag
>>25196402Some anon posted his dick next to a copy of GR
hahahahahahahahahaah thats so fucking good
>>25195884Yeah... you wouldn't get it
>>25196552could you post a real pynchon quote instead of ai slop to try and make him look bad? fucking faggot.
>>25196556There’s been this concerted effort to make Pynchon, Gaddis, DFW, and other “postmodern” writers look bad. There was some other thread I read where the OP had apparently lost a debate so they started spamming all this anti-pynchon stuff and then got others to join in.
>>25196558Lmao Pinecone is probably the worst possible writer you can target. Anything you can come up with, Pynch had already done something ten times worse in his novels.
>>25196556how would you feel if someone pissed in your breakfast this morning?
Pinecone is immunized against all dangers: one may call him a redditor, scat fetishist, pervert, pedo, looney tunes, Joyce ripoff, it all runs off him like water off a raincoat. But call him a glowie and you will be astonished at how he recoils, how injured he is, how he suddenly shrinks back: “I’ve been found out."
>>25196600Calling him a Joyce ripoff when it clearly reads like Absalom, Absalom, lol come on
>>25196604so he was a ripoff of a Joyce ripoff?
>>25196589l think pynchon is the writer with the bigger bag between how genius he is and how dumbass his fans are
>>25196611*biggest gap
>>25196558Then who is it they do enjoy?
>>25196653da greeks
>>25196558DFW doesn't belong with the likes of Pynchon and Gaddis. It's like sneaking a kid up to the adult's table at Thanksgiving, what you've just done.
>>25196661>DFW doesn't belong with the likes of Pynchon and GaddisWhy not?
>>25193661Maybe I just don’t get postmodernism. The beginning of DeLillos Underworld is so good as well as the ending but between those there is maybe six or seven hundred pages of nonsense that I can’t grasp. In Gravity’s Rainbow there are some moments here and there but most of it I don’t even remember.
>>25196697I relate to the protagonist because I am also a paranoid schizophrenic being pursued by a government conspiracy which centers around my penis.
>>25196697and to add to my post here >>25196699 i was also raped by a pack of niggers
>>25196706Hey buddy, he wasn't raped. He just fantasized about almost getting raped. Get your facts straight, bruh.
>>25193906PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE LET IT BE BAIT
>>25196706wow... no wonder i found Slothrop so relatable....
>>25196777Why would it be bait? Many young men do just that, they read their first Dosto/Melville and decide that 'low' culture is not worth engaging in.
>>25196784No thats understandable. Going back to it after? Are you a fucking retard that learned nothing?
>>25193906Thank you!! You just won the internet today. Just let people enjoy what they like and stop being such a judgmental ass.
>>25194224I’ve scribbled your suggestions furiously on my Blues Clues notepad. Yes. This is my ticket to fame.
>>25196600Kek
>>25193906The narwhal bacons at midnight, kind sir!
I dislike cinema and video games generally, and I mostly just read; but I do like to play MS Flight Simulator every now and then… I’m a little autistic.
>>25193661Is it good though?
He just like me frfr
>>25193661>hi every1 im new!!!!!!! *holds up spork* my name is Thomas Pynchonwell, he called them runcible spoons, but other than that, you nailed his voice
>>25196589Nobody pissed in my breakfast tho
>>25193661is it really that bad?
>>25197654It's one of the best books ever made
>>25197654The quote from the OP makes it sound awesome but then this >>25197667 makes it sound GRRM level so idk.
>>25197654it’s probably the best middlebrow book ive ever read
>>25197672hyuk
>>25197684What makes u think it's middlebrow?
>>25197690Postmodernist decent prose but with a bunch of lowbrow references.
>>25197715Shakespeare did that too, NEXT!
>>25197715>lowbrow references.Such as...?
>>25197684>the best middlebrow bookThat's the perfect description of it.
>>25197739Why?
>>25197733https://web.archive.org/web/20100219115457/https://thomaspynchon.com/gravitys-rainbow/extra/movies.htmlAll these filmsPlus a bunch of characters like Zorro and Batman; vaudeville and tin pan alley pop.
>>25197752None of that is in my screenshot
>>25197752Pseud lol
>>25197755>>25197761I like the book you retards why are you acting like I’m insulting it.
>>25197771Shut up retard
>>25197771For some reason people think 'middlebrow' is an insult. I think their minds got warped from being on 4chan too long and seeing 'midwit' used 100 times a day.
>>25197783It's not middlebrow
This is the best thread of the year. I'm gonna jerk off to screenshots of this thread from now on. Hell yeah!
>>25197823Can I join you in your jork’n sesh?
>>25197863yeah dude. we all rubbin' one out to this thread eventually!
>>25197783>For some reason people think 'middlebrow' is an insult.Yep, a-and there's nothing wrong with being a really good middlebrow book.
>>25197804It is. Sorry, but it really is. If it’s any consolation it’s probably at the very peak of middlebrow culture. So high middlebrow, I guess?
>>25197667he's literally me fr
>>25197045>runcible spoonskek
>>25193661why is this book causing so many melties recently?
>>25198259I wouldn’t take it too seriously. OP and co pick low hanging fruit as it were, to garner some sort of following of haters for books popular here on /lit/. Who knows what’s next? Who cares what a couple of retards think?
>>25198259It's been causing melties since 1973. Remember Pulitzer?
>>25198521I wasn’t around in 1973.
>>25197729Shakespeare is lowbrow by design. Doesn't mean it's bad
>>25198054No, it isn't
I’d love to know what are some middlebrow books everyone likes other than Gravity’s Rainbow.
>>25193906>Asshurt Estonian, raped by rabid squirrels at the threshold of spring, being butthurt that vatniks so called wrote something long lasting while his unique Estonian culture can't produce anything more influential than a Harry Potter rapefic on Ao3 and with longer longevity than a simian fap session
>>25198551>>25198585Angry today aren’t we?
>>25198597On the Road, a Pynchon and personal favorite
