favorite episode in gr?

favorite episode in gr?

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  1. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Don't you mean vignette?

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      yeah that's right

  2. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Can someone post a good excerpt? Something that persuades me to read this book.

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      If Slothrop follows that harp down the toilet it’ll have to be headfirst, which is not so good, cause it leaves his ass up in the air helpless, and with Black folks around that’s just what a fella doesn’t want, his face down in some fetid unknown darkness and brown fingers, strong and sure, all at once undoing his belt, unbuttoning his fly, strong hands holding his legs apart—and he feels the cold Lysol air on his thighs as down come the boxer shorts too, now, with the colorful bass lures and trout flies on them. He struggles to work himself farther into the toilet hole as dimly, up through the smelly water, comes the sound of a whole dark gang of awful Black folks come yelling happily into the white men’s room, converging on poor wriggling Slothrop, jiving around the way they do singing, “Slip the talcum to me, Malcolm!”

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      no

    • 8 months ago
      Anonymous

      The tender crevice tightens and relaxes, suspender straps shift and stretch as Bianca kicks her legs, silk stockings squeak together, erotic and audible now that the group have fallen silent and found the medium of touch, hands reaching out to breasts and crotches, Adam's apples bobbing, tongues licking lips . . . where's the old masochist and monument Slothrop knew back in Berlin? It's as if Greta is now releasing all the pain she's stored up over the past weeks onto her child's naked bottom, the skin so finely grained that white centimeter markings and numerals are being left in mirror-image against the red stripes with each blow, crisscrossing, building up a skew matrix of pain on Bianca's flesh. Tears go streaming down her inverted and reddening face, mixing with mascara, dripping onto the pale lizard surfaces of her mother's shoes . . . her hair has loosened and spills to the deck, dark, salted with the string of little seed pearls. The mulatto girl has backed up against Slothrop, reaching behind to fondle his erection, which has nothing between it and the outside but somebody's loosely-pleated tuxedo trousers. Everyone is kind of aroused, Thanatz is sitting up on the bar having his own as yet unsheathed penis mouthed by one of the white-gloved Wends. Two of the waiters kneel on deck lapping at the juicy genitals of a blonde in a wine velvet frock, who meantime is licking ardently the tall and shiny French heels of an elderly lady in lemon organza busy fastening felt-lined silver manacles to the wrists of her escort, a major of the Yugoslav artillery in dress uniform, who kneels with nose and tongue well between the bruised buttocks of a long-legged ballerina from Paris, holding up her silk skirt for him with docile fingertips while her companion, a tall Swiss divorcee in tight-laced leather corselette and black Russian boots, undoes the top of her friend's gown and skillfully begins to lash at her bared breasts with the stems of half a dozen roses, red as the beads of blood which spring up and soon are shaking off the ends of her stiff nipples to splash into the eager mouth of another Wend who's being jerked off by a retired Dutch banker sitting on the deck, shoes and socks just removed by two adorable schoolgirls, twin sisters in fact, in identical dresses of flowered voile, with each of the banker's big toes inserted now into a downy little furrow as they lie forward along his legs kissing his shaggy stomach, pretty twin bottoms arched to receive in their anal openings the wieners of the two waiters who have but lately been, if you recall, eating that juicy blonde in that velvet dress back down the Oder River a ways.

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        If Slothrop follows that harp down the toilet it’ll have to be headfirst, which is not so good, cause it leaves his ass up in the air helpless, and with Black folks around that’s just what a fella doesn’t want, his face down in some fetid unknown darkness and brown fingers, strong and sure, all at once undoing his belt, unbuttoning his fly, strong hands holding his legs apart—and he feels the cold Lysol air on his thighs as down come the boxer shorts too, now, with the colorful bass lures and trout flies on them. He struggles to work himself farther into the toilet hole as dimly, up through the smelly water, comes the sound of a whole dark gang of awful Black folks come yelling happily into the white men’s room, converging on poor wriggling Slothrop, jiving around the way they do singing, “Slip the talcum to me, Malcolm!”

        why do people claim this book is hard to understand? these parts seem 10x more coherent than the weird run on sentence shit he does in the crying of lot 49

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          Once you read it you’ll see. It’s a potpourri of highbrow and lowbrow, technical and scientific info, and a bunch of bizarre and hard to follow scenes. There is a ton of shit in it and it is overwhelming to most

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            is it also full of long recursive sentences like crying of lot 49 is too?

        • 8 months ago
          Anonymous

          He keeps introducing characters and I have no idea who they are and what is going on. I feel like it will make sense once you actually finish it but I need more context

          • 8 months ago
            Anonymous

            It’s get more confusing towards the end

      • 8 months ago
        Anonymous

        What does Pinchton have against em dashes?

  3. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    I enjoyed the chaotic succession of scenes where each had a little title, the Raketen-Stadt bullshit or whatever about the weird "superheroes" against Broderick

  4. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    The boat ToT

  5. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    This one lowkey the basedjacked reddit choice but Byron the Lightbulb goes dummy hard fr fr

  6. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Page 47-49

  7. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Episode? Books have chapters or "books" not episodes... Always knew this guy was a fraud.

  8. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    The Byron the Bulb one

  9. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Tchitcherine doing linguistics on the steppe
    All of the Roger Mexico scenes (he’s literally me)
    Slothrop stealing dope during the peace conferences

  10. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    How do you get into Pynchon? I tried reading GR a few years back and couldn't make sense of it. Ok, not to worry but I'm currently reading TCOL49 and I intensely dislike his complex run on sentences. Other authors have done this; I understand it and I can follow. With Pynchon, even at full focus with no distractions, I oft struggle with the plot and sentences. Is this something I have to contend with? I'm in for a challenge whilst reading but perhaps Pynchon's prose isn't for me.

  11. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    Pynchon is a talented hack.

  12. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    is gravity's rainbow a meme? i thought this thread would be buzzin

  13. 8 months ago
    Anonymous

    slothrop escaping the schwarzkommando & the hot air balloon

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