I'd love to read a good bio of Crowley...what a nut!
― Iago Galdston, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 20:57 (ten years ago) link
I recommend this one
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:06 (ten years ago) link
a lot of books written about him have some agenda and/or axe to grind (which is totally understandable - dude left a trail of destruction that was pretty sizeable), this is one that was both well-written, well researched, and pretty even-handed in its approach
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link
lol Andrew WK recommends!
“Aleister Crowley–what a man. I've read several Crowley biographies, and this one takes the prize for most enjoyable and intimate. Mr. Kaczynski has the personal understanding and experience necessary to paint an accurate portrait of Crowley, with all the exciting context in place. Mr. Kaczynski's passion for his subject makes for an informative and potentially life-changing read. Why wade on the shores of such a vast man, when you can dive in? I think Crowley himself would have welcomed such a loving penetration."–Andrew W.K., musician
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:09 (ten years ago) link
sorry for thread derail...
loving penetration, eh?
― ian, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:19 (ten years ago) link
he was into that kind of thing
― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:20 (ten years ago) link
Hmm, Kaczynski? wonder if there's any relation to the guy who was framed for pynchon's bomb making.
― wk, Wednesday, 4 September 2013 21:25 (ten years ago) link
Far Right: https://a2-images.myspacecdn.com/images03/31/ee964c367771422d897e6cb11b924aa5/600x600.jpg
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Wednesday, 4 September 2013 22:08 (ten years ago) link
not possible to derail a Pynchon thread tbf.
― Fizzles, Thursday, 5 September 2013 06:57 (ten years ago) link
The Crying of Lot 77
― Sir Lord Baltimora (Myonga Vön Bontee), Thursday, 5 September 2013 07:07 (ten years ago) link
this pynchon jr stalker stuff is a tad creepy, unless it can be shown beyond doubt that it's his very self in the trailer
― which can be sold for meat if they are boys.. (sorry guys) (imago), Thursday, 5 September 2013 07:19 (ten years ago) link
it wasn't not his uncreepiness that irked his very self so much as the lack of his hypothetical uncreepiness not actively demonstrated to have been beyond the recognition of stalking a junior "self". "Your shot, Crowley", he smirked. Carom billiard cues have specialized refinements making them different from the typical pool cue with which many people are more familiar. Such cues tend to be shorter and lighter overall, with a shorter ferrule, a thicker butt and joint, a wooden joint pin (in high-end examples) and collarless wood-to-wood joint (for a one-piece cue "feel"), a fast, conical taper, and a smaller tip diameter as compared with pool cues. Typical cues are 140–140 cm (54–56 in) in length and 470–520 g (16.5–18.5 oz) in weight—lighter for straight rail, heavier for three-cushion—with a tip 11–12 mm (0.43–0.47 in) in diameter.[9] The specialization makes the cue significantly stiffer, which aids in handling the larger and heavier billiard balls as compared with pool cues. It also acts to reduce deflection (sometimes called "squirt"), which may be defined as displacement of the cue ball's path away from the parallel line formed by the cue stick's direction of travel. It is a factor that occurs every time english (side) is employed, and its effects are magnified by speed. In some carom games, deflection plays a large role because many shots require extremes of English, coupled with great speed; this is a combination typically minimized as much as possible, by contrast, in pool.[10]:79, 240–1 The wood used in carom cues can vary widely, and most quality carom cues are handmade
― massaman gai, Thursday, 5 September 2013 13:54 (ten years ago) link
Ah, so we're zinging DFW now?
― ... Jenkinson ... ... ... ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago), Thursday, 5 September 2013 14:03 (ten years ago) link
zing zongtokin' on da bongwearin' out ma flip floplisten to the hip hopsich vorstellen neue Liederrhymin' & stealin' w/ a bhagavad gitame and my horsey & a paul mosquito
― massaman gai, Thursday, 5 September 2013 14:25 (ten years ago) link
you're fucking atrocious at this
― ... Jenkinson ... ... ... ... ... ... Özil ... ... (imago), Thursday, 5 September 2013 14:36 (ten years ago) link
i find the hagiography around DFW creepier than any Pynchon stalking....
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 5 September 2013 14:55 (ten years ago) link
Wait, linking a picture publicly posted by a band on their MySpace page is creepy stalking...?
― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Thursday, 5 September 2013 17:04 (ten years ago) link
apparently
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 5 September 2013 18:51 (ten years ago) link
it's meant to be atrocious - it's pynchon
― massaman gai, Thursday, 5 September 2013 19:13 (ten years ago) link
imago ✓
― гір кривбас кривий ріг (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 5 September 2013 19:19 (ten years ago) link
massaman gai ✓
― гір кривбас кривий ріг (Nilmar Honorato da Silva), Thursday, 5 September 2013 19:20 (ten years ago) link
http://themodernword.com/pynchon/The_Kenosha_Kid_text.pdf
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 9 September 2013 23:02 (ten years ago) link
reading all the books in order, up to Mason & Dixon...someone tell me not to be scared of it
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 00:03 (ten years ago) link
Mason & Dixon is really fun! I think it's his most approachable bighuge book
― Dan I., Tuesday, 10 September 2013 05:42 (ten years ago) link
i couldn't get through it and I've read gravity's rainbow twice.
― akm, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 06:09 (ten years ago) link
there's a robot duck, what's not to love
― Panaïs Pnin (The Yellow Kid), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 06:13 (ten years ago) link
i'm rereading it now & i think it's his best. it's definitely the funniest
― awake the snorting citizens (discreet), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 06:25 (ten years ago) link
Gonna second Mason & Dixon as being lot of fun. Though it may partly be the lowered expectation? Anyway, email from the publisher saying Bleeding Edge has been released and should be on the way.
― Popture, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 06:48 (ten years ago) link
m&d has, like, resolutions and shit. most of the balls that are up in the air are caught or left to actually drop in the viewer's sight. but it feels weird because structurally it's not really 'tighter' than g's r, even though the contract it has w/ the reader makes it feel like in some sense it ought to be.
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 08:11 (ten years ago) link
the protagonists & frame narrative give it a greater sense of focus than GR, and it's less randomly allusive -- the jokey anachronisms aside everything is specific to its time & setting (eg the duino elegies i suppose are thematically relevant to GR, i haven't read them closely, but they've always seemed like a kinda undergrad-heavy thing to carry into a wwii story)
iago if you've made it through v. you will have no trouble whatsoever with m&d, it is way more fun
― awake the snorting citizens (discreet), Tuesday, 10 September 2013 08:22 (ten years ago) link
Thanks for the sage advice, everyone...yeah I loved V. and wanted to start GR all over again as soon as I finished it, so I guess it should be alright. Also, I use the online wikis for each book if there are a lot of references flying over my head and those are enormously helpful. Thanks again!
― Iago Galdston, Tuesday, 10 September 2013 11:44 (ten years ago) link
I recommend this one― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, September 4, 2013 5:06 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalinka lot of books written about him have some agenda and/or axe to grind (which is totally understandable - dude left a trail of destruction that was pretty sizeable), this is one that was both well-written, well researched, and pretty even-handed in its approach― what's up ugly girls? (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, September 4, 2013 5:07 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Never thanked you, Shakey...so thank you very much for the rec!
― Iago Galdston, Thursday, 12 September 2013 20:42 (ten years ago) link
http://www.mclemee.com/id38.html
― Mordy , Thursday, 24 April 2014 21:30 (ten years ago) link
I believe it was finally confirmed that he did not write those Tinasky letters. They used to be available as a book though and it was often filed with Pynchon books, at least in the Bay Area
― akm, Thursday, 24 April 2014 22:17 (ten years ago) link
yea, this is p interesting nonetheless esp w/ the murder-suicide tie-in
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Hawkins_(writer)
― johnny crunch, Friday, 25 April 2014 12:41 (ten years ago) link
weirder and more depressing than we thought :-(
― wat is teh waht (s.clover), Friday, 25 April 2014 14:20 (ten years ago) link
“You one of those right wing nut outfits?” inquired the diplomatic Metzger. Fallopian twinkled. “They accuse us of being paranoids.” “They?” inquired Metzger, twinkling also. “Us?” asked Oedipa.
― j., Thursday, 8 May 2014 15:24 (ten years ago) link
our beloved author's "big" novels as themed around conic sections:
http://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~michael.harris/Pynchon.pdf
V: V (duh)GR: Parabola (duh)M&D: Ellipse (the orbit of venus as it transits across our star)AtD: Hyperbolic
convergence and divergence, characters in chaotic orbits and themes casting off to the infinite
― creaks, whines and trife (s.clover), Thursday, 9 April 2015 15:16 (nine years ago) link
that's great & serves especially to reconfirm Against The Day as arguably Pynchon's (second) greatest masterpiece
― PORC EPIC SAVVAGE (imago), Thursday, 9 April 2015 15:30 (nine years ago) link
fonctions automorphiques
heh
― j., Thursday, 9 April 2015 15:49 (nine years ago) link
Is the cone itself a conic section?
― You Play The Redd And The Blecch Comes Up (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 April 2015 15:53 (nine years ago) link
― j., Thursday, April 9, 2015 11:49 AM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
to the tune of
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI9fS5WMRo0
― creaks, whines and trife (s.clover), Thursday, 9 April 2015 20:42 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/k8dSF26.png
http://i.imgur.com/Muj7vDO.png
― 龜, Monday, 1 June 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
lollllllll
― slothroprhymes, Monday, 1 June 2015 18:18 (eight years ago) link
I'm reminded of the rumor, during the long silence between The Recognitions and JR, that Pynchon was a pseudonym for William Gaddis: http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/01/24/mistaken-identity/
― one way street, Monday, 1 June 2015 18:31 (eight years ago) link
Can this article be turned into a film somehow please?
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 1 June 2015 18:49 (eight years ago) link
Pynchon must be tired of telling customer support people he doesn't want to be recorded whenever he calls CS?
― Leee. Earl Grey, hot. (Leee), Tuesday, 26 December 2017 22:23 (six years ago) link
I got Vineland for Christmas. Maybe I'll finally read it this year.
― Matt DC, Wednesday, 27 December 2017 09:27 (six years ago) link
Good piece on Vineland and the protests.
https://bostonreview.net/arts-society/peter-coviello-pynchon-and-coming-police-state
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 13 September 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link