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[Mr. Tea]

Any recommendations of a decent guide online?

@versh

 

[william_kent]

damn, domain is squatted

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[Benny Bunter]

I don't really want to get bogged down too much with reading notes all the time, but it would be nice to have something to refer to now and then

 

[version]

Any recommendations of a decent guide online?

There's the Pynchon Wiki, but it might not line up with your edition. And there was a reading group on the Pynchon subreddit. There's an actual guidebook by a guy called Steven Weisenburger too.

 

[Benny Bunter]

This is the one I've got

 

[Benny Bunter]

That wiki looks good though, nice one

 

[version]

The Wiki's based on the edition with 760 pages.

There's a thread from when Luke was reading it too and someone's been doing one on Substack for a while as well.

Gravity's Rainbow

luka's currently reading it, there's lots to talk about and it's starting to creep into other threads, so perhaps it's time to have a dedicated one...

www.dissensus.com

The Exegesis of Thomas Pynchon | Andrew | Substack

An analysis and guide on the works of Thomas Pynchon, moving chapter by chapter (currently on Mason & Dixon). Click to read The Exegesis of Thomas Pynchon, by Andrew, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

gravitysrainbow.substack.com

 

[Benny Bunter]

The Wiki's based on the edition with 760 pages.

That and the Reddit link look fine, just something to look at if I'm feeling lost

 

[Benny Bunter]

First bit has a Ulysses reference right? With Mulligan in his dressing gown going up to the roof

 

[version]

First bit has a Ulysses reference right? With Mulligan in his dressing gown going up to the roof

Yeah, that's right. Pirate and the bananas on the roof.

 

[Benny Bunter]

And someone slips on a banana skin, lol.

 

[version]

That opening bit with the evacuees and the rocket screaming over London is brilliant.

 

[Benny Bunter]

"A strange talent for getting inside the fantasies of others: being able to actually take on the burden of managing them"

I think I'm gonna like this book

 

[Benny Bunter]

That opening bit with the evacuees and the rocket screaming over London is brilliant.

Yeah really really great writing

 

[Mr. Tea]

Pirate and the bananas on the roof.

You know, in isolation, that sounds like a scene in a book that would be the favourite title of someone like this:

 

[version]

You know, in isolation, that sounds like a scene in a book that would be the favourite title of someone like this:

Someone like Craner?

 

[Mr. Tea]

Someone like Craner?

That might be the most brutal diss I've seen here or anywhere else.

 

[Benny Bunter]

Some absolutely ridiculous sentences but I'm not put off by it. Intrigued with how it's gonna go.

 

[version]

"No, this is not a disentanglement from, but a progressive knotting into—"

 

[version]

That opening bit with the evacuees and the rocket screaming over London is brilliant.

"There is no way out. Lie and wait, lie still and be quiet. Screaming holds across the sky. When it comes, will it come in darkness, or will it bring its own light? Will the light come before or after?"