>They actually believe the Torquato Tasso theory
>>7496719
>Tommy Pinecone posts on /lit/ with the definitive interpretation of his work
>contrarian pseuds reject it
Well, this is a fine way to show Tommy love. Now he'll never post here again.
>>7496723
>nah man you dont understand he just wrote the rest of the book for a laugh the only bits that matter are these 3 sentences about badgers and ancient postal systems
>>7496719
I asked him about that but he wouldn't give me a straight answer.
>>7496728
>nevermind all thes references to towers and Tasso and Oedipus's own artistic madness, haha. It's all a ruse man. Tommy got us again. Fucking rusemaster Tommy P.
>>7496734
>Oedipus
>Artistic madness
o i am laffin
also hilarious that you assigned meaning at all to the names in TCol49, they're allusory but meaningless and intentionally so you fucking pseud. Try and wrangle a meaning out of Jesus Arrabal or Mike Fallopian. There is none. You are as dumb as Oedipa, vainly searching for some secret meaning and imagining your own dots instead of connecting the ones that actually exist.
Good on you OP
Torquato Tasso posters make me mad as fuck
I hate that I share a board with people that seek to reduce literature like this. It's not the love of the text it's about having little tidbits of "knowledge" to feel superior to others
>>7496728
Reread the end of the first chapter. It's obviously on purpose. There's tons of other interesting shit in the novel besides that.
Check out Shannon's Mathematical Theory of Communication, it's another key to the story.
>>7496743
>>7496758
Damn. I never thought I'd see the day come when my /lit/, the /lit/ I've come to love, would betray TeePee, who posted the key to his novel here. He trusted us. He stumbled upon this sanctuary when researching BL. He probably smiled a little and thought, "hey, finally. A place I can talk about my work safely. Maybe I'll let them in on a little secret..."
How do we repay him? With a snarling, self-righteous denial.
You both make my stomach upset. I implore you to revisit TCoL49 and search inside yourselves for a little humanity and a little respect. He deserves it.
>>7496782
>my /lit/
>TeePee
god id like to kick the shit out of you
I bet you get all your opinions from 4chan and I bet you think of yourself as an "elitist". I bet Gravity's Rainbow was the first book your read since Blood Meridian and you just love telling people your favorite band is Death Grips
>>7496733
>I asked him about that but he wouldn't give me a straight answer.
>I asked him about that
>I asked him
Casually mentioning you spoke to Pynchon. What do you think we were born yesterday?
>>7496804
Hi, my name is Paul Anderson, I'm a filmmaker and I had the pleasure of speaking to Pynchon.
>>7496808
AMA
>>7496795
While I do consider myself to be a bit of an e/lit/ist, I assure you that I do not obtain all of my opinions from 4chan. I spend most of my leisurely research in the public library or in the newspaper archives. I spend minimal time on the Internet, for I prefer to spend my afternoons nose-deep in a novel, preferably pomo, completely oblivious to the time. I read a great deal of Barthelme, Hawkes, Gaddis and Pynchon, and I believe myself more than suited to discuss any of their works at length, especially TCoL49. It's one of Bloom's favorite novellas, after all.
>>7496808
Hey Paul, Boogie Nights was "the shit" ("the shit" means amazing where I'm from). One of my favorite movies of all time.
You should make more movies like that.
>>7496808
Was the rumor of his cameo in Inherent Vice all bullshit, as I suspected?
>>7496804
Huh? What do you mean? Lots of people talk to him. We both live in New York, and I see him fairly frequently. He's not the recluse he's made out to be. He simply doesn't like media attention.
>>7496719when they think they're a writer
>>7496834
That's cool. I guess I just assumed if he were so afraid of media scrutiny, he would never use his own name when he was interacting with the general public. It'd be pretty hard to recognize him now that he's 78. Way I see it, the price of an actual photo of him would be way more valuable to a person going through some hard times than protecting his personal privacy. Although I may be overestimating the tabloid value of someone only considered to be one of the greatest living writers. In which case, literature probably really is dead.
>>7496719
way to spot a pseud #777
>they read "theories"
It's real bro
>>7496808
what did it feel like to direct adan sampler in punck crunch pixels pls respond
>they believe that there is such a thing as being a "pseud"
>>7496808
I bet you enjoy the films of wes anderson.
>>7496782
>>7496719
they call pseudo a pseud
>>7496808
Hi $chan Literature, it's me, Father Doubles. Please ask me anything regarding literature; I happen to be a Genius.
>>7496832
watch this scene
>He thinks Lolita uses uses an unreliable narrator.
>>7496719
>>7496728
Come on man, is not like the Torquato Tasso theory is the only thing in the book, it's just an answer that you can find if you dig deep enough for a closure about Trystero being real or fake and Oedipa being crazy or sane, you can't deny the facts, you can't deny that Pynchon, a man who writes about conspiracies in each one of his books, wouldn't do something like this
That being said, let's discuss the Pet Sounds backwards theory
>>7496719
anyone trying to "solve" this book is the same kind of person who says, "why didn't they just use the Eagles to fly the ring to mordor?" at parties and doesn't understand why he remains virginal.
>>7496818
>I spend most of my leisurely research in the public library or in the newspaper archives.
>I spend minimal time on the Internet, for I prefer to spend my afternoons nose-deep in a novel, preferably porno
>>7497246
Confirmed not him. There's a behind the scenes video of that shoot and it's just some fella in a wacky getup
>>7497268
What is the Pet Sounds backwards theory?
>>7497917
it's him
>they browse /lit/
>>7497978
Yeah bump lol
He doesn't have a STEM degree
>>7497978
>>7498396
Use the archive
>>7498399
ayy
he's read pynchon
What publisher is that? The cover makes me uncomfortable.
>>7497268
The point of the book is that there is no closure, or that the closure is in never knowing, and the more you think you know the less you actually know (hence pinecone with his Entropy themes, which is quite literally a part in the book) trying to have an answer completely defeats the purpose and ruins it
>>7498468
that cover is rad as fuck u square lil bee eye
>>7498571
for the normal, casual reader
>>7498598
and for most academics in the field for whom reading and analyzing fiction is a major part of their job, so
>>7496719
This book was absolute shit. Dr. Hilarious? Are you fucking joking me?
>>7496719
here's another way
>They have actually heard of the Torquato Tasso theory
>>7496723
Why would he post here about his "pot boiler"?
>>7496835
Anyone who writes is a writer you. epin memelord.
>>7498571
Exactly. This is neatly enclosed in the scene with Maxwell's Demon. If it worked, the demon would pull order out of chaos and signal out of noise. It is exactly the kind of free lunch Oedipa is looking for. She wants to be able to impose some kind of coherent schema on the all the information she has about WASTE. That's why she asks if the Demon only exists because of the metaphor between informational and thermodynamic entropy -- if it's just an ad hoc convenience, it doesn't give her the epistemological reassurance she wants. Of course, the Demon doesn't work and Oedipa GTFO's. You can't just magically pull signal out of noise.
>>7496719
>They read Pynchon
Before you jump on me keep in mind his quality as an author doesn't enter into this
>>7499433
>>They have actually heard of the Torquato Tasso theory
>this describes literally everyone on /lit/
Well played.
>>7496719
Why isn't this ever mentioned when talking about the torquato tasso thing? I think it pretty much establishes the theory as canon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omodeo_Tasso
>>7496808
You're not the real PTA. He would never use a comma to link two independent clauses.
