>American """literature"""

>>9873983
I can see how a lesser mind might single out that section, out of context, and attempt to trash an entire novel from it. Sorry it was too hard for you, anon. You'll just have to grind a little more.

>>9873983

>postmodern """"literature""""

fixed it for you

American literature from 1850-1969 is great

>>9874021
Pretty arbitrary dates desu

>>9874064
*1968

>>9873983
The opening paragraph of GR is worth the whole novel

>>9874012
>if you don't like shit, why don't you eat some more?

>>9874021
>He thinks Mark Twain is good
lol

>>9874021
Melville is the only American novelist worth mentioning.

>>9874012
It was apparently enough for the pulitzer prize board to reject it.

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This is a pretty gross passage. I'm not sure I want to read this book now

IS this real?

>>9874437
spotted the pseud who thought he could pretend to read gravity's rainbow by skimming the wiki

>>9874443
I never pretended to read it, though?

>>9874450
not in this thread but u know u did in that pynchon thread last week fgt

>>9874012
This really. Yes, it's gross. It's intended to be. The character who makes Brigadier Pudding (the Brigadier in this scene) undergo these violations (and they stretch way further than just coprophagia) is a pretty fucking vile arsehole. This is just the culmination of that process.

tfw off-handedly learning of Pudding's death far later on

>>9874456
ok

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>>9874235
The bit about Kekulé's dream blew me away. Lots of good stuff in that book.

>>9873983

Unf.