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Hey everyone, I'm rereading v by thomas pynchon and this time, I'm trying to make more of a conscious effort to understand everything that he's saying rather than just take it all in as it comes.
my question comes from this passage
"even as the N.O.B. band is playing Auld Lang Syne and the destroyers are blowing stacks in black flakes all over the cuckolds-to-be"
What did he mean when he said the "destroyers are blowing stacks in black flakes" it's on the 3rd page of the novel and I get that the destroyers could be random assholes in the bar but I have no real clue what he meant by that and I figured one of you would.
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unsubtle /pol/ thread
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The destroyers are the docked ships, the stacks are the smoke billowing from their funnels as they prepare to depart, raining ash on the sailors (cuckolds-to-be) who are departing and leaving their women who will be unfaithful in their absence.
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>>8607056
The sailors are at sea, made dirty by the ship exhausts while their wives are cheating on them back home
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>>8607063
>unsubtle /pol/ thread
I don't go on poll and I have no idea why any of what I asked could possibly have any relation to racism, sexism or any political ideology.
Since you decided to make the claim, can you expand upon it? Why does this appear to be a /pol/ thread to you?
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>>8607056
I finished the book a few days ago, I didn't find it as funny as TCoL49 but the less structured plotline and main characters were much more compelling. The chapter of Stencil impersonating several POVs was great although I didn't quite understand how Goldophin tied into the epilogue
Gravity Rainbow next bois?
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>>8607056
I started reading this book yesterday, it's my first Pynchon and honestly my first real "difficult" stream of consciousness style book. Been getting into literature about a year ago but I was reading classics and avoided the difficult modern stuff until now.
So far I think it's great, almost to the second chapter and so far everything is pretty confusing and surreal in a gritty way to me. The only thing is I know authors like Pynchon and Joyce use lots of irony and sometimes I have a hard time picking up on subtle literary and dramatic irony.
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>>8607114
haha my man such a funny meme you did back there haha KEK xD a familiar word in a literary text, oboy! it must mean pynchman was a /pol/ack after all! haha you really did a good job with that meme, i repeat GOOD JOB MY MAN
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>>8607190
nice meme
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