Thoughts on this?

Overrated. Pointless.

>"Why," Driblette said at last, "is everybody so interested in texts?"

The series peaked at The Crying of Lot 31.

>>9294277
How so?
>>9294306
meme

>>9294253
Cant believe there was a blatant title drop

>Oedipa settled back and awaited the Crying of Lot 49

I stopped reading right there.

didn't pynchon disown it?

>>9294721
Me too. Seriously, Ruggles? Jesus

>>9294736
>By the time I wrote "The Secret Integration" I was embarked on this phase of the business. I had published a novel and thought I knew a thing or two, but for the first time I believe I was also beginning to shut up and listen to the American voices around me, even to shift my eyes away from printed sources and take a look at American nonverbal reality. I was out on the road at last, getting to visit the places Kerouac had written about. These towns and Greyhound voices and fleabag hotels have found their way into this story, and I am pretty content with how it holds up.

>Not that it's perfect, understand, not by a long shot. The kids, for example, seem in some areas to be not very bright, certainly not a patch on the kids of the '8o's. I could also with an easy mind see axed much of the story's less responsible Surrealism. Still, there are parts of it I can't believe I wrote. Sometime in the last couple of decades, some company of elves must have snuck in and had a crack at it. As is clear from the up-and-down shape of my learning curve, however, it was too much to expect that I'd keep on for long in this positive or professional direction.

>The next story I wrote was "The Crying of Lot 49," which was marketed as a "novel," and in which I seem to have forgotten most of what I thought I'd learned up till then.

>inb4 autistic tattoos.

>>9294721
>i stopped reading right there
good thing that's the last line of the book

>>9294910
man u ruined all the fun

i totally enjoyed it
high powerlevel needed in any case