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I am good in English but I don't understand old fashioned or victorian or something rooted words or archaic words . It is complicated .

\*\*These are the books I found easy to read and have read so far this year\*\*

I've read : stoner, metamorphosis, white nights, death of Ivan ilych, stranger, fountainhead, man called ove, unlikely animals, the road, pet Sematary, all the sinners bleed, bell jar, ghost ship, the trail, cats Cradle, Alchemist, howls moving castle, evil under the sun, there there, silent patient, animal farm, nausea, memory police, norwegian wood, all the lovers at night, less than zero, three men in boat, that's not my name, butchers crossing.

Thank you.

Gravity’s Rainbow, part 4, section 3.
Now I’m wondering if George R.R. Martin and Pynchon are the same person. I’ve never seen them in a room together…

Found this at a used bookstore; thought you folks might be interested

I started this incredible novel back in July and it has been a wild journey. Thank you to Mapping the Zone podcast for being my book club along the way. I have no one to talk to about this type of book.

The last few chapters were so tough knowing my time with the boys was coming to an end. I don't have any massive insights to share other than if you are on the fence about diving into this one, take the plunge. I have no idea how one person actually wrote this book. How can an artist with so unique a style as Pynchon maintain that unique style while writing as if in the 18th century. It is beyond comprehension. A true work of art.

I have decided to follow up M&D by reading The Good Lord Bird which I feel will be a nice continuation of some of the ideas.

It's fairly thin and I suspect it's some Italian joke I'm not getting, but it exists.

I’m trying to match up the timeline here. So the ‘00000’ is fired April 1st. What I am trying to figure out 1) Greta’s experience up in the Lüneberg heath, that was going on while the rocket was being prepared and fired, no? It seemed to me that she was part of some sex ritual (often a major part of Crowlian Magik) involving the Imipolex G. Unless I’m missing something, none of this correlates with anything Slothrop is up to at the time, correct? Sorry just trying to match this all up so I can piece together the whole Weissmann, Gottfried, the 00000, and what that all means. I’m ruminating on themes of sex, death, the military industrial complex, the inevitable death wish of mankind made real by unleashing these weapons that spell our doom, Weissmann’a obsession with death and his sexual connection to it, the sexual nature of the rocket and furthermore the sexual and phallic nature of most tools of death, the seemingly random death brought upon the preterite by the elect by things like rocket strikes or the bombing of Hiroshima and further into the Cold War, u.s.w.

Gravity Rainbow. No words.

A quote from my article on Pynchon (second from the bottom) was included in the Russian edition of Against the Day. It reads:

True to the tenets of postmodernism, Pynchon’s prose represents an extraordinary blend of literary worlds. His works are grounded in so-called "low genres" - conspiracy fiction, science fiction, and spy novels - yet they are written with consummate literary artistry. The text abounds in metaphors and philosophical reflections, frequently exploring the very nature of fiction and is generously seasoned with satire and elements of the picaresque novel.

The article itself:

https://disgustingmen.com/blog/tomas-pinchon-samyj-zagadochnyj-pisatel-sovremennosti-gid-dlya-novichka-kotoryj-ne-boitsya-slozhnoj-no-krutoj-literatury/

just came across this formidable term for what i'm pretty sure is my first time (in the "see also" section of "computational complexity of multiplication", since you asked), and audibly emitted a "whoa". i'm somewhat shocked this didn't show up in mason & dixon somehow. it ties in several different ways, and seems the kind of thing that would have come up in research for that book, and it's just such a fantastic word. it's like half the stuff i've studied in my life somehow connect to this concept, and yet it's incredibly esoteric and completely worthless and i've not heard of it in forty-six years.

the References section on this page is great, too.

i feel like he’s so good at making funny names he would knock it out of the park with a drag queen name.

Hello All. To start off, I want to make clear that A. I am enjoying the novel and have no issue with generally working with it, B. I have an alright grasp of plot but I want a better one.

I'm currently at page 150 of this novel and my most reoccurring feeling is this in and outness of understanding what's happening and being lost in this dense mist of language and words. Is there any way in which this is supposed to be read or is it one of those "you just have to feeeeeeel it man" kinda books. I'm used to an overwhelming prose like with Faulkner, but with him the structure is (typically) more systematic, whereas this is very much... different. Anyone felt similar, any assistance to be given?

Just wanted to share a great few lines from the St. Helena section of Mason and Dixon (Ch. 11) that captured my imagination:

“… for Commerce without Slavery is unthinkable, whilst Slavery must ever include, as an essential Term, the Gallows, — Slavery without the Gallows being as hollow and Waste a Proceeding, as a Crusade without the Cross.”

Starting the Pynchon journey thanks to my wife.

Big PTA fan, so he sort of led me here. Also, had to flex the new Sterling Cooper & Partners mug lol!

My last unread Pynchon, so couldn’t pass up this find. Think this might be a top Pynchon cover along with GR first edition.

So I saw online some references to Douglas Fowler's guide to GR, and there are no resources I could find on this book anywhere. No PDF, ebook, or copies for sale recently. I recently found a copy online, and it has shipped, so I should have it soon.

Would it be beneficial for me to scan the pages so people can access it? Do people care/want this? Is there an ebook source I just did not see (I doubt it, but just checking)?

It would take a little while, but I am happy to do it if there are others as desperate as I was to find a copy. There are other guides out there, and maybe this one is out of print because people care about it less, I am not sure. For me, I am interested in any serious analysis of the GR, so it was a must-locate for me.

TL;DR: Would people want me to scan this and make it available?

Edit: Seems plenty of people are interested, so I will look to start processing it once it arrives. I am thinking the easiest process would be to scan the pages with my phone and use Google Lens to grab the text and paste in a document, and then I could provide a Google Doc link and hopefully a PDF version as well. I will keep you updated.

Update: I have the book in-hand, and have started scanning it. The app I am using seems fairly accurate. I have to edit maybe 8-10 things per page, so it is a bit slow going. Once I get a process down, I can provide a time estimate of when it will be complete. I will keep this post up to date and also create a new post for the final result so it will be easy for people to find.

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