A nutter regurgitating Thoreau is the solution to alienation

>>8901281
>solution
you're doing it wrong

>>8901288
That's how it's presented. It's certainly not shown as a "...and everyone is fucked forever and there's nothing you can do about it" situation.

>>8901281
Gaddis is so much better than that phony fucking transcendentalist hack

>>8901281
Yes. And his solution is literally: just live it through, aka "just b urself :)". Gaddis found no real solution but had to pretend that he did to delude himself into thinking he had somehow fulfilled his endless ambition.

>>8901281
see you notice a lot of shit after reading the recognition's. the main thing i noticed is its ripe for discussion. yeah i was underwhelmed with wyatt once he goes weird?. but his trip home made up for it. all the other characters were great. loved esme and how her story ends.

And the resolution to Otto's story is even worse, fucking hell.

>>8901281
wyatt's ending was the worst part of the book tbqh

>>8901300
the "solution" is literally "live it through." Unless you take Otto for example, and his fate is pretty shit too.

That doesn't seem like redemption to me. Doesn't the fact that everyone else dies or commits suicide imply everyone is, in fact, fucked?

>>8903098
I liked Wyatt's transformation a lot, he becomes a new dude with whom we're forced to recognize his old self, which was actually his imitation/mask (from the first words of the book). Bast from JR and Wyatt always felt like they'd get exceptionally well together.