/lit/ - Literature

>>20606373
the man likes a gag and a goof what else can I say? I could say that writing song lyrics in a book is retarded but I wont say that.

>>20606373
The lyrics are exercises in poetic forms and parody.

>innuendo
A whole lot more than innuendo... what do you mean? It's pornographic.

How many today OP?

>>20606508
We are so disappointed in you.

>>20606432
You're correct there, the more I read of the one I'm currently on the more sexual it gets. Didn't this guy have a wife to fuck instead of writing this?

>>20606813
writing pornography for the illuminati pays extremely well

which are you reading?

>>20606373
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>>20606358
For fuck's sake.

>>20606911
FUCKING BASED

>>20606911
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 be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything.

He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?”

I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle 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 tired and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter.

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 kirsch zomoskepsis,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a word. After she scanned each banana and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

>>20606817
Vineland. I'm not even halfway through but it's nutty already.

>>20606383
Fpbp

>>20607158
this

>>20606984
maybe... too nutty and not enough meat
have you read any others?

>>20606373
He was proto-reddit

>>20608169
Yeah, I'm only halfway through and there've already been UFOs, ninjas, Godzilla and ghosts...it's a lot.
I read Lot 49 and that was fine, there was only one main schizoid line there.
I'm reading his easier stuff to prep for GR

>>20608177
Should've called GR "The First Shitposter in Europe"

>>20608319
>there was only one main schizoid line there.
what means?

>>20608177
proto-m00t

>>20608385
The only conspiratorial/fantastical element was the Tristero. Oedipa wasn't randomly running into vampires and Bigfoot, stuff like that.

>>20608444
That bit with the old sailor was pretty fantastical, also she hallucinates early on

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>>20608674
and the kids who stay out all night but sleep in cupboards during the day

>also she hallucinates early on
?

>>20608728
She hallucinates a picture of Uncle Sam moving and looking at her at the beginning of the story
>>20608674
That's true, but these moments are so small and ambiguous compared to Vineland where they live in a town of ghosts for a while and there's a straight up UFO abduction. I also forgot to mention the whole Tube thing going on with tv in Vineland...I suppose I'll find out if that goes anywhere soon enough

>>20608750
oh right that
i interpreted it as her picturing it not hallucinating it

>>20608774
I think she was an honest to goodness schizophrenic, what with the LSD testing, the shrink, her night in the city where she was basically tripping, and the ending where one of the options was that she hallucinated the entire thing. I think it makes it more compelling.

>>20608822
what about the mold at the beginning =]

>>20608319
>schizoid
dumb redditor

>>20606373
Why is he wearing a Japanese schoolgirl uniform in that photo?

>>20609571
humiliation ritual

Biggest bait I've ever bit. Crying of the lot is nonsensical and M&D is booooooring (there are like 4 cool chapters in it). One day I'll read gravity's rainbow to check if he's a hack or not.

>>20610639
filtered

>>20608990
oh shit what about it?

>>20606373
write what you love and you will never write a day in your life

>>20610662
probably where dfw got the idea for hal
remember there's a mysterious mold growing in oedipa's cooking garden
anyway i wonder if that's a reference to under the volcano

>>20610688
checked

>>20608822
no way it's definitely hired people messing with her, remember they get the reels mixed up for the Cashiered movie?

>>20606373
>>>>>>>>>innuendo

>>20610639
shaddup