Unironically why did he take 17 years off

itsa meme mayne

Then it's probalby the dumbest one. Yes... it's even worse than saying 'cuck"

i meant in general
you've spent too much time on this website

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less meme, more obnoxious habit

Can you imagine the comedown of writing Gravity's Rainbow?? Seven or more years of your life devoted to writing a mind splitting surrealist epic of literary experimentation and radical politics? Apparently whilst on a fuck load of drugs? And then to have it sell well and revered as it was?

What could you do but enter some sort of paralysis? You've pretty much fulfilled the literary dream, you don't need to work for a long time, your head needs a rest, and you're pretty damn sure there's no way you'll ever top yourself artistically.

Honestly, he probably took a year off, got some cushy editing job, started a family, and put his feet up.

How did he sustain himself before he made it big? I want to know his process he's too fucking secretive.

He writes multiple books together, strangely. He was almost certainly working on Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, Bleeding Edge, and Inherent Vice during that time.

He worked at Boeing and was in the Navy. Are you functionally retarded?

I think he worked in advertising briefly with Richard Farina, too

Wati a minute.. he couldn't have been writing Bleeding Edge before 2001

I would trade my fucking soul to know the things pynchon knows. just to live 1 day with his mind and try to copy his work ethic or whatever he has going for him. it can't be just natural gift he knows something

If you read Slow Learner and some of his letters to editors and friends he seems very critical of his own writing and unsure of what makes it 'work'

chalk it up to fluke

getting high and watching TV

DBZ, Godzilla, The Brady Bunch, Gilligan's Island and many more. you see it peppered in his later work.

He's researched a lot about occultism and conspiracy theories/conspiratorial versions of history, that much is obvious from his writings.

Check out:
Aleister Crowley
Eliphas Levi
P.D. Ouspensky
G.I. Gurdjieff
H.P. Blavatsky
Jung
Freud
Manly P. Hall
Books in general about Freemasonry, Rosicrucianism, secret societies, etc...

Thomas Pynchon has confirmed played Metal Gear Solid.

which one and did he like it?

There is an offhanded Metal Gear reference or two in BE

That's about as much a confirmation of him playing it as the Furbee namedrop is that he has Furbees

pynchon himself doesn't even know, dude

He probably had a Furby when they were popular. I mean, who didn't?

here is the new sincerity, my friends. what a paragraph. no wonder so many people think his newer works are trash, they've become accustomed to the shit he's been shovelling for so long, now they don't want anything else, and suddenly he has a stroke of conscience for all he has wrought, and wants to write with conventionality and order, and it's too late, all far too late. even if this isn't candid, it's beautiful.

His feelings got hurt by some normie writers and he smushed the energy that made him good.

Sad

where is this letter from?

I got it from a Veeky Forums thread a while ago. Some user from UT found some of Pynchon's published letters in their library and posted it. This letter was written shortly after he released V.

Is it weird that Pynchon is exactly what I always imagined Yossarian would look like?

after V. huh? that's odd, especially with what came after!

unless...

Why not? Why not?Why not not, then, if the best reasoning you can contrive is why not?

t. Pynchon

:^)

>Coca-Cola™

Pynchons my fav writer for sure because my fav thing in books is goofs, gags, jokes and rambunctious behavior, and his books are full to the brim of it. Every novel is like one of those novelty snake cans, you open the book & POP you get a face fulla snakes and you fall back cackling. The mad mind, the crack genius, to do it! and then you think hmmm whats he gonna do next, this trickster, and you pick the book back up and BZZZZZZZZZZ you get a shock and Hahahahahah you've been pranked again by the old pynchmeister, that card. "Did that Pynch?" he says, laughing yukyukyukyuk. Watch him as he shoves a pair of plastic buck teeth right up into his mouth and displays em for you- left, right, center- "you like dese? Do i look handsome???" Pulls out a mirror. "Ah!" Hand to naughty mouth. And you're on your ass again laughing as he snaps his suspenders, exits stage right, and appears again hauling a huge golden gong.

>He works on multiple novels at once.
source?

I unironically dislike Pynchon for the same reasons.

His letters to his editors, you can Google them .

He worked in lot and v at same time and started GR During v.

In later letters he talks about working in M&d some days and against others etc.

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>Through recent investigative research using state of the art methodology and fragments of contemporary TV guides it has been surmised that the period in which Pynchon took 17 years off nearly perfectly coincided with what is now widely deemed by historical experts as the famous "Golden Age" of cartoons.

He never really did master the art of suspense though

You have been found out. Why would anyone want us to stop saying "unironic" unironically.

well this is a literature board

>Implying this thread isn't just Pynchon posting to have others justify wasting years of his life

Where's your MacArthur grant, user?

As someone who could not for the life of me summon the desire to finish Gravity's Rainbow, this letter explains exactly why.

he should stick to short story, TCoL49 was far less offensive.

i finished reading all the books in this chart along with the greeks

am i ready for pinch chin now?

There are a ton of vidya references in BE, it was brilliant. I love the idea of this MacArthur Grant winner sitting down and playing video games and watching cartoons.

The Dragonball reference at the Halloween party impressed me. How many men in their eighties could do that? Even Don Delillo doesn't resort to that type of thing in White Noise.

He was working on Mason & Dixon when he started V. and Gravity's Rainbow.

The REAL question is, why the Navy stint?

source that he actually played it and didnt just learn of it?

anyone got the quotes? offhand googling didnt come up with anything

not planning on reading BE anytime soon

finish your book you fucking hippie.

>When Lucas, one of the designers of a Second Life–like virtual world, cites his influences as “Neo-Tokyo from Akira, Ghost in the Shell, [and] Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima, or as he’s known around my crib, God,”

kek

sure

If you have to ask

you're not

It's from very early in his career.

He goes on to talk a lot about how he's going through a big Borges kick and how he's become obsessed with labyrinths lately. Particularly the story "The Two Kings and The Two Labyrinths" from Borges' El Aleph.

Then some other stuff.

I have the rest of them, if you want.

is it even possible to make a living writing books the way pynchon did. i feel they wouldn't sell at all these days

Like all things, writing's changing. Adapt. Your stories and ideas, if worth it, will find an audience.

I want.

Okay. I don't have them in order. I'll post following this. There are 8 images total.

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Because he ain't gay like you, bitch.

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Sorry, I don't know why the orientation is off. They're fine in my computer.

please, user, this is a blue board. no porn allowed.

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thank you, user. thank you.

No problem.

thanks to the kind user

Thanks!

wonderful

"Unironic" is the Veeky Forums equivilant of tumblr's "literally".

>so with time machine and slide rule he journeyed back and talked the king of Norway into appointing an official census taker and asking his subjects embarrassing questions about outdoors toilets, and such

I refuse to believe there is a universe in which Tommy hasn't played MGS2, it was basically tailor made for him.

He just watches let's plays.

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>ywn see an adaptation of Inherent Vice made by Shane Black

thank god

thats a good thing

>eat all his children so they will never artistically surpass him
Has any author's children ever surpassed them? Ever? Even mediocre authors outshine their spawn.

>Even Don Delillo doesn't resort to that type of thing in White Noise.
EVEN DON DELILLO

>as he’s known around my crib, God
Is it really hard for you guys to believe that a spergy twentysomething early 2000's programmer might say something like this?

Martin Amis maybe

it's believable, but there's still no reason to write like that

lel

I love how you have to put "unironically" before asking a basic question.

"Metal Gear Solid by Hideo Kojima, or as he’s known in my crib, God."

I'd finished GR a few weeks ago and was going to make Mason and Dixon the next Pynchon I read but I can't pass this up.

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I don't like you.

well then I don't like you either