Is this the logical conclusion for American literature?

>>9616011
By what logic? De-evolution?

Hey, I just started reading this today.
These references are nuts. Who the fuck knows what the Mischianza is anymore?

Also: is the main character really supposed to be the soda name?

>>9617241
nigger thinks reverend cherry coke is the main character. you ain't gonna make it son.

>>9618067
probably meant narrator and slipped, be nice

>>9616011
Against the Day vs. M&D? I'm debating which one to start first.

>>9618085
mason and dixon no questions asked my man

>>9618110
Judging from hearsay: M&D's difficulty lies in the language - AtD's is from its large cast and page #'s. Any other considerations to make besides these?

>>9618121
M&D's difficulty lies in the fact that all the concrete nouns seem capitalized. As I read rather quickly, and even expect it in German, it threw me weirdly out of rhythm for the first hour or so.
This becomes somewhat relaxed as the novel progresses. It isn't at all difficult. A cakewalk, really.

>>9618121
I found mason and Dixon to be more fun. so maybe that might effect your decision. the prose is top shit too lad.

>>9618166
*affect ... you irredeemable pleb

Every second or so sentence is so cleverly made that I can't but smirk in wonder looking at its humour, or it's just me not being used to such way of conveying thoughts. Couldn't quite get over it for the whole book.

>>9616011
yes

>>9618161
>not being used to all that from frequently reading early modern texts with original typography
Thou, firrah, art an heathenifh fwine.

>>9618366
*heathenifh suuine

>son thomas pynchon & mason & dixon xon

What did he mean by this?

>>9618370
>>9618366
*heathenifh fuuine

>>9618371
They meant 『R I G H T V E R S I O N』

>>9618067
Nigger thinks its 'cherry coke' when its actually 'cherrycoke'.. WEW LAD

>>9618371
(you)

No, but his Civil War book will be

>>9618590
please be real

>>9616011
His style is an imitation of James Joyce's Ulysses. So yes.

>>9619230
Elaborate.

>>9619230
it is not. Is Ulysses the only point of reference you people have for something well-written in an elaborate way? Is every Book written in the English language to be called an Imitation of It? Another one said the same of Alan Moore's Jerusalem, for fuck's sake.
The way Pynchon writes in Mason & Dixon is a synthetic pastiche of 18th-19th century texts illuminated by his own style, which you can most easily identify in comparison with Gravity's Rainbow. Sure, Joyce's influence belongs in there, and that is an empty statement.

I got bored and stopped reading it when I tried to read it for the second time, and I remembered really liking it. It veers between lolsorandumb and overly sentimental

>>9618161
the capitalization is not consistent

>>9619476
Historically it wasn't always consistent during the Georgian era either