what the fuck did I just read

Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon

>>9506498
I mean I didn't understand the ending
what the fuck happened to slothrop, did the rocket fall on him?

>>9506511
Slothrop's arc follows that of the rocket, from his assembly to his ultimate disintegration

>>9506517
And where did the rocket go? Is it one of the rockets from the first part or something like that? Is the assembly of Slothrop also his "re-assembly" after he got disintegrated?
Is the whole distintegrated "form" of the first part of the book like that because it follows the arc of the rocket and slothrop?

>>9506444
A poor man's Catch 22

>>9506541
upvoted
I'm going to take a shower now, if by when I come back you haven't posted a non-memey reply to my thread I will report your ass to asian moot

>tfw /lit/ doesn't like Pynchon anymore

>>9506646
All the more reason to like him

>>9506656
Do you want to discuss the book with me? I'm too hyped and too lonely

>>9506444
You just read the Evengelion of Anime.

>>9506511
I think you're not meant to end up understanding 100% what just happened (even if it is possible).

>>9506444
Soon you will get to read it again and understand a lot more of it this time around

>>9506764
I got some insights while showering
The only thing that unites all these different characters and nations is war. The contemporary humanity just wants to kill itself (thats why the rocket is made and shooted and then remade over and over again because of the argument/structure of the book)
The book itself is also a symbol of this: we get all type of insights, a giagantic amount of knowledge, but after all, the novel is cirular, it has no moral. Pynchon is saying "yeah look how cool posmo can be but it just ends to nothing and ends up just wanting to end itself without being able to do it"
Slothrop also goes in a similar path, chasing some way to understand his situation, himself, and ends up with no identity, having loved and lost a bunch of women, no direction, and all of that just because of "They" (authority, politics, the market, etc"
Everyone who was used as a tool to play with him ends up feeling guilty and messed up, trying to reach to some sort of belief system which only leads to pretty much doing nothing, unable to help Slothrop.
idk stuff like that, just coming up with this stuff as I type

The Blicero of the ending was not the real Blicero, right? Or was the ending a flashback?

>>9506746
Yeah it seems like it. Some of the most stream of consciousness heavy passages seem like Pynchon just trying to squeeze his free association as hard as possible

>>9506537
i thought it looped back to the beginning of the book like finnegan's wake and the 00000 is the rocket that comes down in pirate prentice's dream

>>9506850
The stream of consciousness passages are cool as fuck, though. Read them out loud.

>>9507122
thanks for spoiling me FW, faggot
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>>9507797
Is the guy watching the movie some kind of polimath high on acid?