version's Thomas Pynchon masterclass

luka

luka

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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.
 
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luka

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craner said:
This was niche, I don't think anyone got it.
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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
 
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Clinamenic

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sus said:
The scylla of being ignored and the charybdis of being made fun of
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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.
 
luka

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

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None of the short stories are particularly good, but think some of those early editions might be worth something.
 
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luka said:
insanely bad that film. like, you cant fucking beleive it when youre watching it. keep pinching yourself. is this real or a weird nitemare
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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.
 
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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.
 
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Mr. Tea

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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.
 
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This thread bump reminded me I have a copy of gravitys rainbow I've been putting off reading for ages, so I read the first 10 pages and I really like it so far. Good to have a long novel to read through the winter months, last year it was David Copperfield.
 
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Benny Bunter said:
This thread bump reminded me I have a copy of gravitys rainbow I've been putting off reading for ages, so I read the first 10 pages and I really like it so far. Good to have a long novel to read through the winter months, last year it was David Copperfield.
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I call my stack of unread / yet to read / will never read books "THE GRAVITY'S RAINBOW PILE"

I couldn't get past page one

same as FINNEGANS WAKE to be honest

and it's not as though I can't slog through dull and too long novels, mostly what I did this year
 
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