What kind of fucking ending is this? Bugs, you can't expect

>>9724150
lol, kid

end of the novel is Hector Kowabunga's happy hollywood ending

Zoyd probably got gunned down by the cops

i dont even remember the ending, what happened again, i was mostly just relieved it was over, the copy i had smelled like shit, like synthetic vinegar or something ,very unpleasant, i think i donated it to somewhere to get it out of my life

>pynchon
>plot
It had to end somewhere

>>9724687
this is a good post.
keep it up.

>>9724687
i had a copy of All The President's Men that smelled really acidly pungent like someone who never washes. I got it from Sierra Nevada books on amazon so I don't reccomend them

>>9724715
How the fuck does a book end up smelling like that unless people rub themselves with it?

>>9724739
I'm guessing some musty old storeroom with bad ventilation and mold or dead rodents under the foundaiton

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>>9724150
The final Pynchon redpill is acknowledging that he was a shite storyteller. I mean, nearly everything he ever wrote was taken in some degree from real life. The man was a prose engineer to the highest degree but he couldn't spin a yarn to save his life.

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>>9724827
Yes and no. By traditional standards of literary criticism his narratives are weak and unsatisfying but in his blatant and frankly impressive disregard for and detachment from narrative tradition and cliche he tells stories in a uniquely exciting way, somewhere between a sense of absolute free-fall and an intuition that just below the surface, just beyond the horizon something of apocalyptic importance is brewing.

>>9725011
ironically youre responding to a copypasta lifted from the current joyce thread about "the dead" but it's funny that this could be said about Joyce as well.

>>9725022
That is strange, especially because Pynchon calls himself a 'word-engineer'