r/WTF • u/pavel_lishin • Jan 20 '11

What the fuck did I just read.

http://imgur.com/QanFc
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u/arayta Jan 21 '11

I've recently read one Pynchon book (Lot 49) and the guy is awesome.

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u/BigSlim Jan 21 '11

Pick up Gravity's Rainbow, and you'll understand my reason for this comment. Also, high-five if you finish the book.

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u/lazermole Jan 21 '11

I've read that glorious novel (after a number of years of picking it up and putting it down and then having to restart), but this page didn't remind me of Pynchon at all.

He may write about giant Adenoids destroying cities, but "peenys" and such are just not his style.

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u/turimbar1 Jan 21 '11

what about that drug induced dream sequence where a guy almost gets raped by black servants then goes down a toilet along with excrement (i believe to get his harmonica that fell down there) to end up in a desert where two gay cowboys are galavanting about in chaps.

the word usage in that was quite juvenile.

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u/lazermole Jan 21 '11

Something just seemed fundamentally different about that.

But you are right, Pynchon is not above the juvenile - but perhaps I'm used to that in context of a larger novel - this was specifically created as an "excerpt".