>>25216775
>haven't read any of these authors
yeah, we fucking know

>Who would you add to the Mount Rushmore of midwit...sorry, middlebrow authors?
you say don’t shoot the messenger but purposely make a provocative comment. What’s your real goal here? Oh wait… actually… never mind, I know it’s you, kill yourself weeb faggot.

Who is the guy on the left? Ive only read two pynchie books. They were good

>>25216793
William Gaddis. The Recognitions, JR, ring a bell?

>>25216798
Sounds familiar

>>25216775
anon, for real, i don't even want to shit on you, i just want to talk. what happened? like, you used to post your anime pics in pynchon threads and i know everyone made fun of you because you seemed to not understand pynchon at all. but like, if you just kept trying you would understand him, others would help you, and you wouldn't have to do all this. just go back to doing that. i swear i won't even make fun of you. just stop making these threads.

>>25216775
SCA-DI

>>25216806
God… shut up about subahibi man

>>25216803
The problem will be solved if people ignore him and make his threads good by engaging in actual discussion. But that requires ignoring him and other trolls and discussing literature, so I am not going to hold my breath.

I actually plan to begin Gravity’s Rainbow. Which is definitely out of the ordinary for me because the newest stuff I’ve read is modernist lit, and I mainly enjoy non fiction, philosophy (idealism mainly) and poetry (Miltonic and Shakespearean mostly) from the 17th to early 19th century. My favourite work in prose is probably Gargantua and Pantragruel. Tell me, considering my interests, how do you think I will find Pynchon’s novel, in the early parts? Is his prose as great as the ostensible insanity of the content in the novel? It appealed to me since I read about its surreal qualities, and Ubu Roi is one of my favourites due to its surrealism. I also enjoyed the nighttown chapter of Ulysses and the sort of nightmarish atmosphere of Petersburg.

>>25216884
Majority of the surreal content is in part 4, first three parts only have the odd bit. The contrast between the dead serious heavy narration and more light hearted freewheeling dialogue gives a certain surreal quality to the early parts, G&P and Ubu Roi suggest a fair chance you will like it.

>>25216912
I see, thanks for the info anon. I already understand that later in the book Slothrop’s personality and character within the novel is slowly “erased” from the story after a mental breakdown(?) of sorts. This part got me interested.

>>25216775
Imagine being so pathetic that multiple people (>>25216803) know you as the most retarded poster in pynchon threads or the retarded anti-gaddis/pychong/dfw spammer. Get a fucking life dude or stick to your visual novel threads (yeah, we all know those are yours too).

>>25216957
He might even be the most retarded poster on the board, but I also don’t think /lit/ is his most visited board, as I’ve suggested before.

>>25216966
You're probably right. Mostly likely /a/ since he signs all his posts with anime pics.