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Why doesn't he want to be photographed?
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Why doesn't he want to be photographed?
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Sorry to steal your thunder OP, but I am genuinely curious about the meaning behind his anteater quote. Can anyone explain it for me?
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>>7828065
Probably because he doesn't want to get recognized
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Because he's smart and knows that fame eventually leads to alienation and misery
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>>7828065
Would you want to be photographed if you looked like a David Lynch character?
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Why?
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>>7828065
To get more attention

>>7828069
IIRC, it's fake.
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he has completely transcended normal human desires like recognition and fame
do you think someone described as an 'intellectual superman' by his contemporaries wants to become a weekly presence in inane news articles and being gazetted in reddit TILs every day
also his equine mouth
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He's an undercover CIA agent
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>>7828065
He's a Trump supporter and doesn't want to be harassed in liberal New York.
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You guys need to stop posting Tommy Pinecone so much, or I need to leave /lit/
Last night I had a dream where I was in some undisclosed neighborhood, knocking on random doors, asking old ladies where Pynchon might live.
I haven't even read any of his books for christ's sake!
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>>7828467
that... wasent a dream......... .. .. 0_o
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He knows too much
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>>7828065
Because "he" doesn't exist.
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>>7828069
it was on clickhole, a parody website linked to the onion. it was a joke
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Because he hasn't aged
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