Greetings and goodevenings, /lit/. I would just like to bring

Top toad, /lit/hren

>>7687425
Which was your favorite part?

Hey, it's Gassposter!
Thanks again, Gassposter

>>7687452
No thanks needed. I'm just spreading the glory of Gass.

>>7687205
;Not;enough;semi;colons;apply;yourself;senpai;

>>7687529
Please do not mock or make fun of Mr. Gass.

>>7687549
I;tried;to;immerse;myself;in;the;supposed;beauty;but;when;I;was;about;half;the;sentence;I;just;couldn't;take;it;anymore;it;was;too;much;for;me;to;handle;

>>7687569
Not the Gassposter (s/o to the Gassposter) but do the semicolons really bug you that much? I don't get it

>>7687205
truly euphoric

>>7687569
Just go with the flow, anon; settle into it like it was quicksand, a waterbed, a warm bath; don't struggle or spit or resist; rest, relax, and just go with the flow.

hell be fine

>>7687638
pls no

>>7687599
>>7687633
At a certain point I started laughing. Especially considered the introduction given.
How does that count as a single sentence is beyond me, there must be like 50 sentences there.
I think I have a completely opposite idea of composition.

I liked it. Thanks

I mean yeah, obviously

>>7687650
No offense, but if your idea of composition differs from Gass', it is likely--very likely--wrong. You have to understand how staggeringly intelligent Gass is, how many thousands--tens of thousands, maybe--of hours Gass has spent reading and writing, how deeply he understands language--he has his PhD in the philosophy of it, after all--and inner workings. As silly as it sounds, if Gass thinks something, he is probably right; if he does something while he is writing, something that seems strange, seems like it isn't right, it is right.

>>7687689
I prefer to be wrong and reason with my own head and steadily and slowly grow in the process, thanks.

>>7687701
Don't be too prideful; learn from others.

>>7687701
Why not learn from Dr. Gass instead of being delusional?

>>7687701
>>7687706
this is why i come here mates

>>7687710
For the Gassposting?

>>7687724
nah for the different pov's

>>7687823
Ah. I see and agree: that is quite appealing.

>>7687837
>>7687823
So are you guys going to fuck?

>>7687839
I don't know. Maybe.

>>7687706
There's not being too prideful and learning from others and then there's this >>7687689, which seems like turning off your brain.

It's honestly a very beautiful passage, all memes aside.

that passage is so whatever

>>7688840
But I'm doing no such thing; I just recognize that Gass is older than I am, smarter than I am, and much more well-read than I am; in other words, I know that Amy opinion he may have is infinitely more educated than mine; so I listen, learn, let go my ego, and push my agon towards its inevitable end, when I will either break off/away/out or be subsumed.

>>7689165
*any

>>7688842
I'm glad you enjoyed it :).
>>7688911
:(

>>7687205
>we can waltz while the world ends and worry about what will cure warts
Wow, that's pretty much what 2015 was for me.

brb buying the tunnel

I read Omensetter's Luck and it read like Nabokov poorly attempting to imitate Faulkner. I'm not really a fan of aesthetes, I need some meat to sink my teeth into.

>>7689617
I hope you like it.

>>7689625
The Tunnel is much better, both stylistically and content-wise. I recommend you try it

Read Middle C then, later on, omensetter, and was always further more agreeing with myself that he is an average writer trying to hack his way into greatness. Now, from the snippets I read of it, the tunnel seems like a piled up gimmick plastered with shallow philosophical thoughts to compensate its weak plot. I liked the prose in middle c and sometimes it was brilliant, but it felt that all the book was just continuous attempts to craft nice paragraphs and only at moments succeeding.

>>7690293
Your bait does not rustle me, friend. A+ for the effort, though.

was actually excited to read this but apparently it's just a fat recluse venting over 30 years. was expecting something like his short stories or omensetters luck

>>7690587
That is what it is on the outside; but, on the inside, it is a highly allusive, allegorical, and philosophical work. It is an artistic attempt to encompass the hate and horror of the holocaust. I highly recommend you read both it and Into The Tunnel: Readings of Gass's Novel simultaneously, as it will help you understand what's happening behind the pretty prose.

>that pic
thanks for ruining him for me. i can't take fat people seriously. dropped

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>>7690524
It wasn't intended to rustle, but I see how its truth, marked by your lack of rebuke, would unsettle jimmies of the fanboy in you.

>>7690620
thanks for the response.
the problem i have with this passage is that it feels very inorganic from what i've read from gass.

it seems like a shoehorned take on our morbid reality that would appeal mostly to people in their early 20s. generally, people who can't consolidate feelings of nihilism.

i'm sure this book has the same beauty of language as his other work, but does it aim for a sense of beauty in the mundane? or should i expect 700 pages of why life is terrible. i don't know how else to say it.

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>>7690620
>the holocaust