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>Oedipa settled back, to await the crying of lot 49

Seriously Pincecone???

>> No.6459776

Explain what's so bad about it.

>> No.6459793

>>6459776
>missing the point of the thread

>>6459768
>Oh, raise high the roof beam, carpenters!
Fuck you, Salinger, just fuck you

>> No.6459802

>>6459793
>>missing the point of the thread
memeposting?

>> No.6459805

i think he just wrote the book then put that line on the cover because it was fresh in his mind

>> No.6459809

>>6459768
That line pissed me off so much, I stopped reading there.

>> No.6459819

>>6459805
I think he used the title as one of the many red herrings

>> No.6459826

>>6459768
>the rocket's path was a parabola dictated in part by it's own propulsion, but also by the force of gravity. it was a kind of gravity's rainbow.

come on tom

>> No.6459832

>>6459809
Nice post, friend, mind if I print it off? :^)

>> No.6459835

The point of the thread is to be an idiot and let me prove it with three cases.

1) You're posting assuming everyone is making fun of the fact that authors mention the title of the book in the book itself.
2) You're posting in mindless fun, making you a mindless dolt.
3) You're completely ignoring the fact that threads like this A) aren't funny in any way and B) could have been a thread a little more productive and active in discussion

>> No.6459840

>>6459826
One of the best lines of the novel.

>> No.6459845

>>6459835
A) I have bad taste
B) So bad that I unironically think /lit/ ever has good threads

FTFY

>> No.6459847

>>6459845
I have had discussions on this board abut literature, stop trying to prevent this from happening. You know exactly what I'm talking about.

>> No.6459850

>“It’s twenty years,” recalls the Revd, “since we all topped the Allegheny Ridge together, and stood looking out at the Ohio Country,— so fair, a Revelation, meadow’d to the Horizon— Mason and Dixon, and all the McCleans, Darby and Cope, no, Darby wouldn’t’ve been there in ’sixty-six,— howbeit, old Mr. Barnes and young Tom Hynes, the rascal . . . don’t know where they all went,— some fought in the war, some chose peace come what might, some profited, some lost everything.

WOOOOW ARE YOU KIDDING ME

>> No.6459855

>>6459805

WRONG. the auction is the event par excellance. it is the moment of revelation of paranoia or certainty, the axis upon which positivism and cynicism teeter, the fulcrum over which oedipa's sanity or scrutiny will be brought to bear. the entire book has been a culmination in that climactic moment. verily oedipa, herself a stand in for the conservative movement in the 1960s, has arrived at a singular event, an island in time, which could determine the course of history for generations to come, if only, if only, she could make sense of it, if she and the conservatives could decide once and for all if they were being maligned by the communists, if there was a conspiracy against them, or if it was all political rhetoric to extend the life of billionaires. we can see the result: pynchon wrote a novel whose sequel is the subsequent history.

>> No.6460203

So what is the point of these threads?

>> No.6460245

>read Lot 49 after browsing /lit/ and becoming familiar with the title-namedropping meme
>mfw Pynchon ACTUALLY does it in the last line of the book

I've never been that blown away by literature

>> No.6460597

>>6460245
TCoL49 was pretty subversive, full of red herrings making you think certain things had more significance than they were supposed to which turns out to be the point.

>> No.6460644

>>6459768

"It was only then, as the sun had all but fallen, that Leopold Bloom thought to himself, "Today was a lot like Ulysses in a way."

"There, atop the stairwell, with all her guest's gazing silently at her final form, Clarissa shouted at the top of her lungs, "I AM MS. DALLOWAY."

"The Mock Turtle spoke to the Gryphon beside the ocean, "Oh boy, if only I could hear about Alice's Adventures in Wonderland one more time."

>> No.6460793

>I did it, Ishmael. I finally became Moby Dick.

BRAVO MELVILLE
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>> No.6460801

>>6460203

>So what is the point of these threads?

Just newreaders from /tv/ trying to bring their shit memes over here.

>> No.6460853

>>6460245
Pynchon also opens books with characters waking up with sun coming through the windows (Vineland) and descriptions of clothing (V.)

>> No.6460871

I get the point of these thread but I have to ask, what's the point of these thread?

also

>them? they're the Karamazov brothers, but everyone around here just calls them the Brothers Karamazov

God Damnit Fyodor.

>> No.6460888

>>6460801
hey mane I'm /lit/ through and through never done been to no other board no sir nuh uh I assure you of my cleanliness and purity