Do you agree, /lit/?

>>9346630
>le lepidopterist maymay

>>9346630
>Pynchon was a sailor
>This explains many things; for example, the fact that Pynchon's novels, for all their elegance and wit, resemble nothing so much as salty seawater: intense and stormy; beautiful but lacking any substance

Abbey's writing is sentimental and full of cliches.

Ironically Nabokov's books are a lot more life affirming and fun to read because he was such a cynical writer.

>>9346664
>seawater
>lacking substance

>>9346630
Lol

>>9346630
>it's another "writer creates arbitrary values to try to criticize another writer who writes for totally different reasons than they do" episode

>>9346630
Ad hominem garbage

>>9346630
It was funny, but then I understood it.

>>9346630
>the killing of butterflies is murder

>>9346630
yep

>>9346664
> sailor

try again, and his stint in the navy reveals a lot about his work, actually