version's Thomas Pynchon masterclass

[craner]

The scylla of being ignored and the charybdis of being made fun of

We are the same, but you just have to plow on. If you don't, you shrivel up and die.

 

[luka]

it was way more easy to read and approachable than your usual thing. cos you were apeing that blandly urbane US journalism style 'he languidly reaches for a breakfast burrito' harper and queen vanity fair the new yorker.

 

[luka]

This was niche, I don't think anyone got it.

i was thinking of doing a laugh emoji to pretend i got it. then i worried it would be the wrong response and make it evident i didnt get it like in Gus' W.A.S.T.E example in the essay only i have read

 

[Clinamenic]

The scylla of being ignored and the charybdis of being made fun of

The dissensus charybian peanut gallery will sink your dignity, but if you hold on long enough to the branch of Craner's consolations, eventually the forum will regurgitate your dignity and you will sail on, all the stronger.

 

[Clinamenic]

Craner’s Consolations would be a great title for an erotic fan fiction.

 

[craner]

"A crazed bunch"

Reconsidering Paul Thomas Anderson’s Inherent Vice

Both the novel and film of Inherent Vice revel in the shaggy-dog absurdity revolving around dope-fiend private investigator Larry “Doc”

thespectator.com

 

[luka]

insanely bad that film. like, you cant fucking beleive it when youre watching it. keep pinching yourself. is this real or a weird nitemare

 

[luka]

just seen this in the bookshop and im already regretting not buying it. i did get a glossary to seafaring terms in the books of patrick o brain however
Amazon product ASIN 0856520349

 

[luka]

Thomas Pynchon's The Low-lands

 

[william kent]

None of the short stories are particularly good, but think some of those early editions might be worth something.

 

[sus]

insanely bad that film. like, you cant fucking beleive it when youre watching it. keep pinching yourself. is this real or a weird nitemare

All-time film. My cozy watch. I do it once or twice a year. So fun and sunny and smokey and casual and perfect. A masterpiece.

 

[william kent]

The best of the short stories in Slow Learner is the last one, 'The Secret Integration'. It's only really worth reading for that and Pynchon's introduction.

 

[Mr. Tea]

I had a dream last night that Pynchon, of all people, had had his work surreptitiously promoted by the CIA during the Cold War as an anti-Soviet cultural weapon, much like they did in real life with abstract expressionist painters.

The next bit of the dream involved some sort of mash-up of Joseph Campbell and William S. Burroughs in the form of a book titled The Hero With A Thousand Asses, which I think is actually pretty funny.

 

[william kent]

 

[luka]

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