Do you think he's a recluse because he's ugly af?
>>8139596
it's probably because he has no talent
>>8139596
> recluse
Except he was literally partying with 20 year olds on Manhattan Beach while writing Gravity's Rainbow.
He's not a recluse
define "recluse"
not doing interviews or shitposting on social media? why would a patrician do such a thing?
a lion doesn't concern itself with sheep
*tip*
I don't see much fun in being in the literary sort of public eye.
The only writer I can think of to use his celebrity, in the modern sense, to get top notch über celeb pussy was Arthur Miller. He got cucked a million times and then got a divorce.
If you're Pynchon, you still get your megabux off book sales (thus making the "fame" aphrodisiac unimportant) so it's no problem acquiring the semen demons. Plus he probably does tons of drugs so he would probably get a bunch of normies telling him to go to rehab or have to deal with jeopardizing his audience's respect for him when he gets intoxicated in public.
Plus lit circles are super gay other than stimulating conversation or group editing. He can just communicate them in writing.
I can think of countless advantages and I think it's brilliant t b q h.
>>8139623
>implying his books aren't just shitposting
>>8139629
You haven't read any of his books.
>>8139633
I have, unfortunately.
>>8139633
I got memed hard reading Vineland.
>>8139596
he fucked all his friends gfs
and he has a wife now
also he isnt a recluse
>>8139704
That's his worst. Sometimes /lit/ makes jokes that an author's worst book is his best or most patrician, and idiot hipsters unable to discern what irony is actually believe that shit and propagate it.
>>8140091
Nobody here says that Vineland is Pynchon's best, except for me maybe, because in a purely subjective sense it's sincerely my favourite. If anything, it's massively undersold because it's been saddled with the label of "the weakest" of his oeuvre, which people misinterpret as "bad". Anyways, Bleeding Edge was worse and Inherent Vice was far beyond worse.
But >>8139704 shouldn't be complaining, Vineland is a fucking breeze to read, without a doubt Pynch-o's third easiest novel after the two short guys TCoL49 and IV
Yes, I've always thought this.
He can't bear the responsibilities of being a meme.
Pynchon would be a good looking lad without those tusks
>>8139633
The Crying of Lot 49 had a lot of shitpost-y elements.
>>8139624
well this is just wrong
hella writers have scooped qts
like fucking salmon rushdie got priviiairyyay rai
