I work for Penguin Books USA in NYC and a few weeks ago, a friend

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I want to believe.

Tell those fuckers to stop rejecting my job applications

>>9659743
prove that you're in nyc right now

>>9659743
Please don't bully the autists.

>>9659743

Please don't LARP here.

>>9659743
why bother typing all this?

I don't want to post from work computers or I'd stick around more. I'll post a dated picture when I get home. Also
>>9659838
it took me probably 2 minutes, most of which I was half doing other things, to write that post haha

>>9659878
>haha

Nice try dumbass.

>>9659767
This is the best I can do rn (view from my office)

>>9659743
>this photo
Why did you use this "cameo" its not even him

>>9659956
Yes it is but he's in extensive amounts of makeup.

Acolytes, unworthy as I am to say as much. Here's a hint as to what I've named it:

The Guardian's Bastille Day, or The Banana King

gake and fay

>>9659945
you didn't do very well

>>9659956
OP here, I googled "pynchon pics" or something. I also don't know if that's him, just thought it was fun.
>>9659988
This is fake. I'm pretty sure even the dept reading the book doesn't have a definite title

Also, apparently the pasta appears not necessarily word-for-word, but close. I know the snake was in it, I can't remember the pasta, but there was a ton of material directly from it. It's apparently like a paragraph (although, I haven't heard the paragraph directly either).

Sorry for being vague, I have no contact with this book and limited contact with people who have read the RD

Hello, Vagrants.

What's the hype? Who's the City Cat with the Elixer? Why can't Horace escape his wife's ghost? And what's with all the Immortality Business? Cui Bono?

More and more along the way.

Pynchons my fav writer for sure

>>9660074
Fuck off Bugs.

Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.

If i was Pynchon:

>Write last book
>"The Autobiography of Thomas Pynchon"
>1,500 pages of absolute falsehoods
>Rest easy till the sun sets

>>9660032
It's not him. The only real post-1960s photo of him is the blurry one where he's walking down the street with his kid with a black winter jacket + hood on. The photographer got a serious talkin'-to for it.

Google "pynchon kid"

>>9659743
Can you get me an internship?

>>9660107
And there is that cnn video. he has a red cap.

>>9660101
norm already did this

>>9659963
Bullshit he's a rando extra and people kept trying to hunt him down and his family freaked the fuck out
>>9660032
>OP here, I googled "pynchon pics" or something. I also don't know if that's him, just thought it was fun.
Larp better

>>9659743
you fuckin with me, OP? if there really is a book, as you say, how long is it? is it an epic or just... another bleeding edge?

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>>9660071

Is this actually you, Tom?

>>9660117
I know Tom, but you and Norm inhabit different spheres.

>>9660125
OP here, I don't know a single detail about this book save that this >>9660091 appears in some form in it, enough to where the proofreader freaked out, and that "4chan" is mentioned (I don't know the context but if I had to gauge from a gut feeling it's negligible, like a passing reference.) The reference to the pasta is pretty overt.

Any other details I don't know. Usually with an author that has this big of a following and a name we are delivered the draft in-hand by a private courier, and no one who is reading it is talking about it. So I couldn't even tell you how many pages arrived, or how long those will be in book form, etc. I had some gossip confirmed a few weeks ago that it had arrived (we were anticipating it) but any other details the proofreaders and readers keep totally quiet.

Write your dream plot summary for the next Pynchon tome

>>9660175
OP,

This is a pretty dope marketing scheme. Stoking the fire in pretty much the only forum that actively discusses literature.

You deserve a raise.

I thought we all already knew he lurked? In one thread about him months ago he said something along the lines of "you guys make me laugh" and said something about how his new book would be coming out next year.

>>9660238
Also if you fucks actually read Bleeding Edge, he very clearly referenced 4chan, though indirectly.

>>9660179
subterranean mole people who finally develop a way to blot out the sun, and rise from the depths to conquer the earth. i would also like to see some mole people technology fleshed out, warfare and weaponry through their perspective, music, culture, porn, sweet sweet mole porn.

>>9660238
I missed the supposed Pynchon shitposts and I deeply regret it.

>>9660249
he could also tie it into that mining thread we had a month or so ago, the guy who asked if there was an epic ever based on the life of those in mining towns. hell, might have been him testing the waters. the mining towns could be full of mole spies, like reptilians, miners could gain sympathy from the moles as well. hey, speaking of reptilians, they could finally reveal themselves and try to wrest the world from the greedy paws of the moles.

is this the guy who's supposed to be like a watered-down, reddit-humor, gaddis?

i remember seeing someone posting in a thread about Pynchon back in the summer ,much the same scenario only that the book was composed of two volumes and it had "large parts of it written in french " .

>author obsessed with internet culture
>sees a pattern of where memes originate
>goes on 4chan
>sees there is a literature board
>sees that it constantly shit posts about him
>finds it funny

that's not that far-fetched, but he didnt quote a pasta in a book, unless he created the pasta and seeded it here to meme himself

>>9660248
Where?

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>>9660107
false. pic related recent photo of tom

>>9660399
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9k_TNk2mtTA

3:22

>>9660179

US government using meme magic to fight terror attacks and influence elections, kind of like The Men Who Stare at Goats a little.

I hope it's a fucking Tome if this is true.

>>9660409
yo! quality of that vid sucks cock

>>9660248
>clearly but indirectly
wat

old people on the internet makes me sick

>>9660419
Imagine how disappointing it would be if his last book is only like 300 pages

>>9660248
4chan didn't exist in 2001, the time when BE takes place. Why would he put an anachronous reference in?

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>>9660479
If it's not one he's been working on since the 60s that's over 1200 pages, pic related

>>9660484
Exactly, Pynchon would never, ever do such a thing.

>>9660179
The Japanese Insurance Adjuster: A Civil War Tale Full of Goofs Gags Jokes and Rambuctious Behavior

>>9660697
I genuinely hope that Pynchon's last work is as massive and impenetrable as Finnegans Wake. I never want to get tired of hearing him go yukyukyuk and smashing a gong.

Thomas Pynchon, do you walk among us? If you're out there, please give us a sign!

>>9660248
Is Bleeding Edge any good?

If Ruggles were to somehow give us a sign that he's here among us, reading our posts, perhaps even posting himself, I would actually cry. I know a lot of you meme about him, so who knows what you really think, but I truly love the Pynch.

>>9661875
If I were him and I were here, one post like this would ensure I never revealed anything about who I really was.

>>9661949
I knew it would work. Hi Tom.

>>9661875
You're not alone, anon.

Pynchon dies next year

>>9662013
Pynchon is already dead you stupid schwarzenigger

>>9662027
don't taint my post with this thirdhand meme. cap this: Pynchon will die in the autumn of 2018

>>9662028
sir you should have the dignity at least to admit to yourself that when he is going to die (if he is not dead already and i believe that he is) his death will never be confirmed and as a result we are to asume that it wont matter if he dies in autumn of 2018 or summer 2022 or for that matter yesterday.

Hello my friends. Somewhere in this thread there is accuracy, though not precision, if you can dig.

hey, pynch. if you're here, would you mind giving me some advice? i've fallen out of love with literature that isn't gigantic, maximalistic, should i be wasting my time with the russians anymore? i've been yearning for modernity, a gargantuan feat to overcome, all this small stuff seems just so.. dull. predictable and dull. so peaceful. i want to be entombed, buried, up to my head drowning in a book i'll never truly understand. i don't care about meaning or absolute truth or any of it, i want to be blown away by things i don't know and won't. what should i do, pynch? what the hell am i doing? i'm reading jovial soviets while i could be reading beckett and gaddis, gass, and you. why am i doing this to myself? what am i doing?

>>9662972
i dont get you tho

>>9661875
God, are you here? Faith is quite tiresome.

>>9660179
Medieval surfers smoking dank dark ages dope.

>>9663008
Keep reading those tomes, friend.

Another hint, you say?

Loon returns.

>>9660179
A voyage through time and space featuring an immortal, intelligent dog as the protagonist

obvious trolling aside is it possible for pynchon ,at his age , to write another book?

>>9663127
If he's been working on it since like the early 90s and is just putting the finishing touches on it, yes.

How is it working for a publisher?
You like the job?

Is it Pandemonium of the Sun?

>>9660479
only thing that matters is whether it's good. doesn't need to be a doorstopper as long as it's not "pynchon-lite" like BE and IV

>>9661834
it's good in general but not so much compared to his other works. if you like pynchon it's worth reading

>>9663175

Yukyukyukyuk

Pynchon trough the misteries of life has become something as beautiful and as important/relevant as a new literary current. Just us here, talking about him, pretending to be him, believing he IS here and that he IS writing those posts...
It is truly something magical.

>>9663360
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