Who do you think he's talking about, /lit/?

a ghost of DFW told him to kill himself and meet him on the other side

Either Pinecone or McCarthy, I highly doubt Tommy would give a shit about him

Me

>>9919598
Alice Munro

>>9919598

Norm seems totally genuine like 90% of the time but when it comes to anything lit related he becomes cringey/psuedy as fuck

Can't be Pynchon. This line gives it away:

>he sees no one

Pynchon sees everyone. Nobody sees Pynchon.

I believe it's Pynchon. He would dig Norm, and seems like the type of guy to watch old Norm talkshow clips on Youtube. Probably was scouring old tv shows and found Norm was always great. Also Dennis Miller once said the word Pynchonesque to Norm about one of his jokes and Norm laughed and got the reference.

>>9919615
I see it as more likely that Pynchon would like Norm than Corncob.

>>9919598

I didn't invite you anywhere pal.

>>9919598
Tolstoy was cryogenically frozen.

>>9919598
Janeane Garofalo, no doubt

>>9919704
Corncob is Faulkner, pleb.

>>9919615
He confirms it's one of the two on Twitter

>>9919598
Could it be? G-God?

>>9919634

I thought about Pynchon, I can't actually think about any other relevant recluse writer that it would be worth a tweet about by some comediant. I thought he was a total recluse, what do you mean by that?

>>9919725
>finally, I have become Corncob

Why do people like this shit?

>>9919598
Alice Munro got gender reassignment surgery

>>9919617
Hi, Bugs. I still don't forgive you for the ending to Vineland. Hope you are great.

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What the FUCK is this?

Greg Egan. Screencap this

>>9920098
ha!

>>9920131
It's fucken real

>>9919615
If there's ONE contemporary genius that would want to meet Norm it'd be Pynchon, what the fuck are you talking about?

>>9919711

Franzen pls

>>9920159
based

Kevin MacDonald

>>9919598
George RR Martin

>>9919598
My diary

>>9920188
I bet someone unironically replied that on twitter

>>9920168
Kek

>>9919711
write more books so that I can continue to ignore them, DFW

>>9919640
Does Pynchon even have the internet? I could see Pynchon as the type of guy that wouldn't even have the internet.

>>9919598
if its pynchon the last thing pynchon wants is norm to say "IM ON MY WAY TO PYNCHONS HOUSE"

norm probably got disinvited because of this tweet

Kentaro Miura, obviously

>>9919627
yeah, it's clearly alice munro

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>>9920230
>Norm and Miura spend the entire meeting talking about Iori
>Norm now only tweets about Idom@ster

>>9920226
That's what I was thinking, but it's likely Pinecone will never know about this tweet, unless he happens to see this thread of course.

>>9920281
I think you all sorely misunderstand Pynchon as a person.

>>9919598
Banksy

>>9919598
https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/899367320006443008
some guy:
>Gotta be Pynchon or McCarthy, no?
Norm responds:
>yes

>>9920061
>I thought he was a total recluse, what do you mean by that?
He's not a total recluse, he has a family and goes out just like any other person. It's just that pretty much no one knows how he looks and he likes to keep it that way.

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what did he mean by this

Pynchon and norm seem like they would get along. Although if we knew who Norm considered the greats it would help us predict who's he's meeting with.
I know he loves Russian /lit/ and Alice Munro because of his based Ellis tweets but other than that I don't know.

>>9919627

>novelist

your'e so dumb

>>9919598
Oh shit it's Pynchon

>>9919615
Pynchon's sense of humour and Norm's sense of humour have a lot of similar ground, anon.

>>9920967
I believe it could be McCarthy to be honest. Dude never does any interviews outside of that one he did with Oprah and the one with Werner Herzog where they discussed art and science. Cormac's a quiet little old man who lives on a modest ranch and is completely cool with people not liking his work much. I think he'd be the kind of guy to invite someone over just to drink coffee or beer with as they watched horses run in the sunset. Or maybe they'd watch West Side Story.

>>9921006
> based Ellis tweets

Does Norm just shitpost anti-Ellis jests? I don't go on Twitter much I don't know

>>9919598
Viktor Pelevin?

Me

>>9919615
Are you retarded? Have you even read Pynchon?

>>9919631
Not as "cringey/pseudy" as you. Christ you are such a fucking mess.

>>9920061
He's actually not a recluse, he just stays away from cameras and for that reason he can go anywhere and not be recognized.

>>9920224
You do know he has an entire novel that revolves around the internet, right?

>>9921155
Why did Cormac choose Oprah to do the interview? Was she really the best offer he had? Or maybe he was low on money.

>>9921252
No idea. anon, but it's one of the only interviews he's done

>>9920281
What? Even if he doesn't use the Internet, he's married to his fucking agent. Why on earth wouldn't he see this tweet?

>>9921269
Maybe he won't mind.

Maybe Pynchon plans on doing (more) interviews in the future. Stanley Kubrick was another "recluse" who had planned to get more in the open so to speak.

But in Kubrick's case, he died.

>>9919598
>sees no one
is he blind?

>>9920224
Pynchon has visited /lit/ on several occasions.

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>>9920137
You've not seen the worst of it.

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>>9921658
He might frequent this place more often than you think.

t. Breakspeare

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>Pynchon reading jokes on Norm's podcast

>>9920994
He probably meant a TV/Film writer, for one

>>9920045
link

>>9921922
https://twitter.com/normmacdonald/status/899403872904519680

I think it's a ruse. Norm knows his audience and is probably shitposting.

>>9921725
Torquato Tasso is one of my favorite /lit/ shitstorms.

>>9919615
Pynchon wouldn't see eye to eye with him or be interested in meeting him I think. Probably McCarthy or maybe Zizek.

>>9922009
Wait never mind. It's definitely Pynchon. I thought this was a Sam Harris thread at first for some reason.

>>9921155
My feeling is that he thought it would help bring visibility to the Santa Fe Institute, where the interview took place and where he is a trustee. He aggressively focuses on science and on the work of others during the interview, avoiding any personal detail, which is why it's so surreal to watch Oprah try and talk to him. She's totally out of her element but he's so generous with her that they still seem to get along.

>>9919598
Icycalm

>>9921942
>I think it's a ruse. Norm knows his audience and is probably shitposting.
Norm probably is the most honest and kindhearted man on twitter though.

Tara Gilesbie

>>9922018
>Sam Harris
>No way he's interesting
>Norm Macdonald
>Sure, why not?

I find this kinda funny.

>>9921239
So? You know writers do things like researching, right?
>>9921658
You can't troll me.

>>9921725
>>9921996
screencap?

>>9920050
Lmao

>>9922496
It's true. There were a series of seriously well-informed posts that only someone who had done some serious digging could have wrote. I don't have the archive link but its out there

>>9923275
https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S667543#p667619

>>9923292
Holy shit. I'd always heard that Pinecone came here, but to see it in person is amazing

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>>9921725
>Well, Pope Adrian IV. The only English Pope. Look it up. His real name was Breakspeare.

Well well well

My money: John Schwartzwelder

>>9921225
SHUT THE FUCK UP

>>9922496
Are you retarded? This is Pynchon we're talking about here. How the fuck do you think he's going to do research for a novel about the internet if not by using the fucking internet. Fucking brainlet.

It's Fred Stoller

>>9922760
Read the whole thing

https://warosu.org/lit/thread/S3039755

>>9921252
Oprah gives good head.

>>9922085
He's also a comedian that uses hyperbole and purposefully bad jokes all the time.

>>9919598
It's easy to say Pinecone or Cormac are the greatest if you don't read literature in other languages. Can't say I don't understand him, I speak Serbocroatian and English well enough to read lit in those languages and I also don't know any better than those two (Pinecone is one tier above Cormac).

But it still seems quite ethnocentric because I bet Norm also has stunted perspective. Or maybe we'd hear about those others by now?

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>>9920224
Of course I do, silly.

>>9919598
Nabokov. Which also explains why he sees no one. The mystery is how he got the invite, then. :thinking_blob:

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>>9925555
>Pynchon above McCarthy

>>9921155
I think it can only be Pynchon. McCarthy is not the type to be too interested in a guy like Norm's comedy, whereas it's right up Pynchon's alley.

>>9920224
You would think he didn't given how shit Bleeding Edge (his 'internet novel') was.

>>9925635
Significantly

>>9925642
Bleeding Edge was outstanding, it completely captured late 90s hacker lingo without looking tryhard

Hell, I followed the scene and had to google some of concepts P used

>>9925794
fucking retard

>>9925798
No u

>>9925798
Nah man, you.

>>9925798
You are mistaken sir, that is you

>>9923292
Jesus Christ. If anyone hasn't, read the entire thread. Pynchon is a fucking genius, probably one of the most well-read men ever.

>>9926110
Stop acting like you know for sure it was him

>>9921811
"There's nothing cooler than being a lone wolf, except at a wolf picnic when you don't have a partner for the wolf wheelbarrow race"

>>9926110

fuck off pinecone

>>9926240
kek

>>9925555
we'd hear about the others, I'm sure

we got the internet now after all

>>9925555
>any other culture's writing being as important or great as English literature
>The only other relevant society besides the English-speaking West is China and they don't produce "art".

Russia's time is over, France's time is over, the Jap's and the South American's time never really started besides a few authors here and there, etc.

Also
>Serbocroatian
>ever relevant ever

>>9920098
>bing

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>>9925400

bruh the dude posting in that thread...

he even coined 'pinecone', i'm shook.

Look how much more erudite and sincere /lit/ is in the Pynchon thread. Sad, really.

>>9924855
Books. Fucking faggot.

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I tried to tell you all, I'm Pinecone. I've been here the whole time.

>>9927600
Yeah, the same can be said for much of 4chan, sadly.

pinecone x mcdonald collab confirmed

In an episode of 'Mike Tyson's Mysteries', they visited Cormac McCarthy's ranch. Norm is one of the voices. I'm thinking him.

>>9925400

I still have trouble fathoming how everyone was convinced that was TP. A few decent turns of language aside, what he said was mainly horseshit. Literature isn't about solving fucking puzzles.

>>9927905
>reaching this hard

>>9927905
I think you seem to be under the impression Pynchon is some kind of JD Sallinger. I'm gonna take a guess and say you probably have never read a book of his, right?

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>>9921176
>>9924936


it's a joke

It makes more sense that someone with a twitter bio reading:
>This is my official twitter i like bananas. theyre yellow.
would appeal to Pynchon.

How le delightfully quirky and le random xxDD

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WHYTHEFUCKISVICTORPELEVINNOT DISCUSSED⁉

>>9928803
We are talking about the greatest living novelists here, so why are you bringing sci-fi writers into the discussion?

>>9928835
>Sci-fi writer
It's far too obvious you haven't read him...

>>9928619

Imagine being this young.

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>>9928619

>>9928903
Well, I'm not some middle age dude browsing a website for Cambodian finger puppets and I'm also not American so I'm not familiar with your shit comedians.

Is this man, with his ~le offbeat~ humour that emblamatic of the comedic tastes of whatever age group you come from? Sorry to hear that.

>>9926240
man that's a slow burner joke

first I thought that was lame but as it sunk in I laughed way too loudly

what the fuck

> literally no Ye posters

Has the McCarthy is shit meme died now?

>>9928803
is this the buzinga bro from the bingly bongo programme

>>9925400
Do people really believe that Pynchon, a man in his near-80s, would waste his time on /lit/ making meme-riddles to jest on us hard?

As wacky as his books are I would imagine Pynchon is more busy building model ships in coca cola bottles or reading the manuscript to Cormac McCarthy's The Passenger.

>>9919615
Any writer should be keen to meet Norm. He's extraordinarily well read, and if the interviews of other comics/writers are to be believed he is a very intelligent man

>>9919640
>got the reference
Well he's not exactly an unknown is he

>>9929015
Pynchon quit messing with my head

>>9920994
JOHN SWARTZELDER

It would make sense - the man's a notorious recluse, regarded by many in the industry as the best comic writer ever, and he has written a series of rather excellent absurdist novels. His wanting to work with Norm would come as no surprise, they share general political orientation and sense of humour, plus Norm is regarded by many also as one of, if not the, greatest stand ups

>>9928984
Not that guy but I'm a 22 year old British male, former electrician, about to start reading English at University of Cambridge, and Norm is my favourite stand up (tied with Bill Bailey and James Acaster) - take from that what you will, I only thought I'd say to show you it's not just Americans and le kooky kids who enjoy him. I run with a mix of working/middle class friends and most who I introduce to Norm enjoy him greatly. Give him a chance

>>9929606
None of what you said indicates that you have decent taste in humour. Indeed the fact that you enjoy Bill Bailey well and truly cements your status among the middlebrow who tend to be drawn towards le randomness.

>>9929686
Lol ok pal - what comedian does a patrician like yourself enjoy?

>>9929686
And, btw, my comment was to point out the world doesn't necessarily fall into the categories you like assigning it

>>9929606
How does it feel having done so much at age 22? I'm 21, and I've done nothing but sitting on my ass reading all day.

>>9929784
I have a fairly good knowledge of the admissions process at Cambo (other half is a doctoral student there and has done admin stuff in admissions) and I am almost certain that guy is lying... if it makes you feel any better.

>>9929784
Feels like I wasted a lot of time doing shit I felt I had to at the time i.e getting a trade. Grew up in an unstable household so was scared to take a chance on pursuing a university education

I wouldn't worry too much about where you're at man - Cambridge is the first thing I ever didn't just stumble into, and you're a young man yet

>>9929829
I can see why you'd think that if you weren't familiar with the mature/post-grad colleges, which is where I'll be going (Wolfson - a student is classified as mature if they start after turning 21). The normal deadline is October 15th but my college offers a March deadline to accomodate Access to HE students (which I was) who only have a year for achieving grades, writing personal statement and interview prep. If they didn't basically only sixth form students would be in with a chance (unless you took a year out I guess)

I don't know why I, a man you don't know, feel the need to explain this to you, a man I don't know kek

>>9929900
I'm not saying it's not true, just that they're highly unlikely to admit someone of your age and circumstance, even to Wolfson.

Also
>man

>>9919598
>>9929015

Tommy P, if you're reading this, please introduce one of 4chan's greatest innovations in your novels.

>yeah i'm talking about greentext

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>>9925400
>me reading those old Pinecone threads
>he outs Travolta as gay
>he likes Belle & Sebastian
>writes batshit crazy Shakespeare theories

if not him, at least i got entertained