/lit/ - Literature

>>15269733
What do you want for breakfast?

hyuck hyuck

What comes after post-modernism?

His books are entertaining.

>>14528804
Put me in the screencap.

>>13460178
>hegel is trying to get people woke about some kind of lovecraftian epstein shit

>>13428527
I'm doing just fine. This room is blazing hot though.

I saw Thomas Pynchon at a grocery store in Manhattan yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to bother him or take photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Wha?” but he kept cutting me off and going “Wha? Wha? Wha?” and ashing his joint in my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckling as I went off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen bananas in his hands without paying.

The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be an anarchist not bound by rules, but eventually turned back around and took out his credit card.

When she took one of the bananas and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to prevent any electromagnetic entropy,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a phenomenon. After she scanned each banana and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by singing "Money (That's What I Want)" really loudly.

Hi, Thomas Pynchon here, also known as The Guy who wrote at least 3 really long books that aren’t worth reading. When I’m not walking around New York City with my shithead great grand nephew buying him the latest V-Box or whatever (back in my day, we had to wait four weeks for Trystero to deliver a Captain Racism doll and we’d have to use nothing but our imagination to have fun with it (That and of course the three variations of the n-word that would play when you squeezed his amputated legs (By the n-word I meant Nigger))).
Anyway, like you said, when I’m not wasting my fortune from my very successful writing career on my ungrateful family or smoking a Big Fat Joint in my bachelor pad, you like to reminisce on when I, Thomas Pynchon, became an anarcho primitivist for a week. It all started when you ran into this guy, Teddy Something, at the University of Michigan in the late 60s. you was trying to score some acid off of some of the cooler kids, when you quite literally ran into this Ted cat.
“My papers!”
“Let me help you with that”, you offered, noticing the complex equations and symbols scrawled across the sheets, “I really am sorry. you was looking for some cool kids to buy drugs off, but it's clear you are a math nerd and therefore not useful to me. Although, you am really trying to get some mathy stuff into my next novel, that would really have the critics going bananas...”
“I don’t have time for this. Please just hand me those papers.”
“Now hold on, what's this? These aren’t standard nerd equations.”
With my background as an engineer at the yoyo factory, you was able to tell that Teddy here was planning on building a bomb. “You know, if you write me a couple of math jokes for my novel, I’m willing to forget everything you just saw here.”
“sigh How about send you them in the mail when you have some more time.”
“It’s a deal!”, you outstretched my hand and BZZT zapped him with a classic buzzer hidden in my palm. “Haha, got ya. This baby is the most powerful buzzer you can get!”
He walked grumpily away.
“What’s the matter, you don’t like new technology?” I shouted.

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>>11106265
>the part where he gets the bananas for breakfast, took me about 2-3 hours to get there
buddy that's within the first 10 pages

>>10959560
>mfw numerous versions of this novel appear and the reader has to work out which is the original

>>10954042
Dance with Dante
Get shiggy with Shakespeare
Mellow with Milton
Frot with Flaubert
Jaunt with Joyce
Piggyback on Pynchon

>>10946001
I finished GR at the end of February and I'm still not done listening to the PiPCast episodes. Almost done with Book 3, but that's still like 6 hours of listening.

I highly doubt that any of you have a picture of Pynchon that I haven't seen. Prove me wrong.

Does anybody have the one that's like "should i kill myself? yes" It's from the same interview that all these are from.

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>>10647877
Don't forget in the Emoji Movie where they literally say "Words aren't cool anymore, it's all about pictures now"

Welcome back.
We've come a long way.

In the previous thread: >>10486919
>this book is hard (continued)
>complaints about starting too early
>banter of various degrees
>sex. . . lots of sex
>arguing for 50 posts
>dickensposting
>laughs shared
>anime
>new recruits

RESOURCES:
>Annotations and detailed notes on each page
https://gravitys-rainbow.pynchonwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
>Section Summaries
https://www.ottosell.de/pynchon/rainbow.html

>>10502131
My vote is for pic related. I'd like to take a day off, too.

"You have best start believing in rockets, Gottfried," Blicero says. "You're in one"

I'm enjoying this an awful lot so far, lads. All I want is banana breakfast.

Also, what's the deal with the Adenoid? It's all a fever dream fantasy of someone else experienced by Pirate, right?