Did I get filtered?
I get that it is about a insignificant person discovering something way beyond herself and not being able to comprehend it. I think it captures that feeling of being on the verge of finding out somthing huge, where you constantly notice coincidences etc. But it was boring as fricking dirt. A secret postal service from medieval europe operates in europe and has assassins? Who the frick cares?
Also what should I read next? Mason & Dixon or GR
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>pomo burger lit
>good
I didn't like this one either. But I loved GR.
TCoL49 is basically a test run for GR. Don't immediately drop Pynchon, or you'll miss out on what's perhaps the very pinnacle of American art (coming from a non-American).
>Don't immediately drop Pynchon
Disagree. You either love it and go totally bananas forever over him or you don't like it. No reason to pretend or force it.
Weird. Why?
> it is about a insignificant person discovering something way beyond herself
Kinda sorta but not really.
>that feeling of being on the verge of finding out somthing huge
Interesting insight tbh
>boring as fricking dirt
Idk I reread it every year. I love the shit out of it.
>A secret postal service from medieval europe operates in europe and has assassins
Unlikely =^)
>Disagree. You either love it and go totally bananas forever over him or you don't like it. No reason to pretend or force it.
Even Slow Learner is better than lot49. Many like pPynchon but dislike lot49.
I don't see what's so disagreeable about it.
Nothing is disagreeable about it, it just does not offer much of anything, flat characters and writing, a generic follow the clues structure which adds nothing, etc. It's only redeeming qualities are that it is short enough that none of its failings are around long enough to become an issue and it is kind of fun as long as you do not think to hard about it.
You do not read lot49 for the prose unless you have no clue what prose is. Almost everything which defines Pynchon’s prose is missing from lot49, hell almost everything which defines Pynchon as a writer is missing from it.
t. filtered
In this case, the filter was meant to keep intelligent and literate people out.
Like how you would use a sieve to sort out nuggets of gold in between the mud of a creek.
Feel free to discuss the thing I brought up, enlighten us, show you can offer more than words like "filtered" and "kino."
flat out wrongerino bucko
Have you read Faulkner and Wallace Stevens?
I'm not American either.
Yes you got filtered. The book is enjoyable to read. You read Pynchon for the prose, not for the plot
>You read Pynchon for the prose, not for the plot
I've honestly never considered this. Is it like poems (which too I've never spent time on) or are you just memeing
It's post modern art, which is seldom enjoyable because pomo is almost always a joke where the punchline is that there is no punchline, because one can't be reliably constructed.
Art is philosophy made manifest so that you feel it in your gut as well as your head, and with pomo I've always thought it so bleak that it's better experienced by your head and read as an essay rather than felt. We know life is meaningless waste of time. An artist doesn't have to literally waste our time with a meaningless puzzle. Just have to get on with it and do our best and not get sucked into the meaningless puzzle, which I think is what the book is probably trying to sort out.
you don't understand post-modernism
Checked. What's truly horrifying is living in a post-post-modern world.
You got filtered.
It's kino.
I loved Mason & Dixon and Gravity's Rainbow and it left me completely cold. I'm glad I didn't start with it to ease myself in like people suggest or I might never have got onto the good stuff
>I think it captures that feeling of being on the verge of finding out somthing huge, where you constantly notice coincidences etc.
Yeah that's the big point
>But it was boring as fricking dirt.
reread it after GR
>dumb roastie discovers something significant but is unable to comprehend it
sounds about right