>open /lit/
>look through the catalogue
>no Pynchon thread
>close /lit/
>close /lit/
>make thread on /lit/
hmmm
Once the Pynchmeister's wiki said he was married to Heidi Honeycutt (it's been changed back to Melanie Jackson since), so I did some searching online and the source was probably a joke in Honeycutt's IMDb profile. I was kind of surprised at first, thinking the Pynch got married again at 79.
That's all I got
Pynchon > Joyce
I'm talking the worst of the worst. Where just getting through the book gives you a headache.
>>9508185
Looks like he's more of a miserable bastard than a bad writer from my pov
>Le brouillard, c'est moi.
>>9508198
He just repeats a lot of stuff, over and over again.
The only book of his I could stomach was "Empire of Illusion"; where the topic was so broad (everything between porn and college) that I didn't notice his repeating.
Compared to Death of the Liberal Class (pre-WWII community theater was the height of the labor movement in the US), and War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (I say I've been to like ten war zones, but really I've only had extensive experience in Bosnia), Illusion is like a godsend that might as well been ghostwritten.
I REALLY hope you don't steal books (aka piracy, downloading them off off the internet without paying anything) and are for IP, /lit/.
Knowledge should be free.
I really hope you don't burden yourself down with material possessions for some nebulous idea of consumerist virtue.
>>9525740
guilty hehe
>"Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned"
>>9525176
Respect women anon
>>9525178
Respect women? What am i some kind of KEK?
>>9525178
> respect women
> hello m'lady
>Whence.
>Hitherto.
>heretofore
>aforementioned
>rhizomatic
>>9524738
>aforementioned
hey fuck you, i use this one
Who /massmarketpaperback/ here?
have you no shame
>>9524439
I have a library of almost a thousand volumes. I reckon maybe half of them are MMPBs.
>inb4 muh expensive hardcover
some people don't want to spend $40 on a pocket, /MMBP/ represent
Haiku thread! Primarily of vivid imagery and literary insight.
Hello there program
Blunt and binary rations
Be less rational
>>9524185
English haiku's are shit.
>>9524199
OP here, I wrote it in a matter of seconds. Don't be such a downer and post a true Japanese haiku if you've got it. Never restricted thread to only English.
>>9524185
please suck
ooh the dick
ooh bitch
am rly gud m8
>basho script of matsuo mod
>qt patootee walks up to you
>"oh hey anon what are you reading? what's it about?"
what do you do?
>>9523536
I tell her the name of the book and what it's about
>>9523536
>Foucault's Pendulum
>crazy Italian guys
>>9523541
lmao what a fuckin doofus
>It's a dangerous necessity
>It's a world famous mystery
Books about love, relationships, etc. Why the fuck can't humans figure this shit out? It's one of the most immediate top priorities of nearly every human being; as a species shouldn't it be something we strive for, train for, dedicate or philosophizing to? Ya know, instead of going about it with the grace of retards playing hackey sack?
love isn't real you fucking idiot
>>9523380
how's that?
>>9523406
>love isnt sublimation of sexual instinct
how do you guys generally describe faces? I'm having trouble finding adequate adjectives besides words like "round," "angular," "warm," or "amorous." how far into details would you typically get? do you go so far as to describe the eyelashes and shape of the chin, or do you keep it simple and leave it up to the reader's imagination?
pic related. it's the face i'm trying to describe
>>9523370
Step 1: Compare face to an animal.
Step 2: Pair that animal with a few adjectives (Mousey yet soft, etc.)
Step 3: Only describe it once - the shorter the better.
Only do this if it's adequately relevant. I'm not one of those "less is more, edit out everything that isn't plot" types but facial descriptions are so rarely good or worthwhile feeling
>>9523370
generic for the face you want but always give the hair color, people fill in the rest with people they've seen with that hair color
itt Meaningless words:
>New York Times Bestseller
words
>Implying words have meaning
>>9523596
If words have no meaning then what is government?
post pictures, make anons laugh
>>9522957
starting this off
>>9522960
>>9522962
what will humanity look like in 30 years?
>>9522915
Try to imagine just how stupid we are today, now take that and multiply the stupidity by three.
>>9522919
so you're thinking it will look a lot like this?
I think we will have another war, but I'm not sure what the causes would be nor how bad the consequences would be
>>9522915
Wealth will be even more concentred, consumer's and civil's right will be even more limited
Entertainment will be even more efficient, meaning that the general population's attention span will get even worse
More racism and more polarization
More soulless art, the public for said art will shrink even more
Generally, it will be a uglier, more boring word, unless you're a soulless dummy.
To hit maximum comfy level I sit under a tree in my kayak and read. I have a kobo aura one since its waterproof but I'm sure it's easy to waterproof pretty much anything. I suggest everyone try this and would like suggestions on cool things to read on a river.
>not Tom or Huck. Nigger Jim triggers me.
>sorry about the picture size but it is kinda pretty
>>9522726
>>9522691
Why won't you try getting a real job?
This has more gags, goofs, hijinks, tom-foolery, wackiness, zaniness, jokes, rambunctious behavior then all of pynchons books put together. What did gaddis mean by that?
he was demonstrating that he is the best american author of all time, or at least of the 20th century
>>9522425
He really is. One of them at least. Melville, gaddis, Pynchon, Gass? Mcelroy?
>>9522431
Faulkner.