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Wait, so Pynchon did some kind of scientific discovery with the book? What are you guys talking about?

I'm a native spanish speaker and I'm on the level where I don't have to translate what I read in english into spanish and I'm not having any difficulties with the books aside from the fact that is one of the most difficult books I've read. If you shitpost here regularly and get all the jokes etc you are probably fine

yeah i was mostly drawn to it for the whole stoner california vibe, it's delivered in that sense but i still feel like i want more

what makes you say m&d?

>what makes you say m&d?
cuz that's his other "major work" after GR

Nah there's stuff there, Slothrop's identity is stripped in the Herman Goerring at Christmas, around the same time the guy steals his clothes.

The 00000 is launched on April Fools Day, 1945, which was also Easter Sunday.

Slothrop abandons his quest and finds his harmonica again on or around Aug 6th, the same day as the Feast of the Transfiguration and the bombing of Hiroshima.

This is all stuff that Weisenburger points out in his companion which is a real good text

M&D is I think potentially /more/ difficult than Gravity's Rainbow because it's partially a parody of 18th century literature and uses a lot of the tropes of that genre; however this does make it even more funny when Popeye or a Werebeaver show up. It's also kind of insanely beautiful and moving and more optimistic and bright than Gravity's Rainbow, which is def quite dark in a lot of ways. I also went into M&D thinking it would be fairly linear because it's a chronological re-telling of the drawing up of the Pennsylvania-Maryland line. I should have known better really, they definitely start and finish the line but everything in between is up in the air as to if it, uh, actually 'happens' in the book's universe

It has a dense style but the content is lighter than GR, so it makes a good stepping stone. It's also just really good

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