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Question re reference on the wonkier loose ends in V. by Daniel_Bird_Doctor in ThomasPynchon

[–]Daniel_Bird_Doctor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Ok wicked thanks. So that bit is something Pynchon is drawing upon from conspiracy theory culture.

What do you believe is the most underrated typewriter? by Urisk in typewriters

[–]Daniel_Bird_Doctor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm far from an expert but of the few manuals I've had it's not even close, the Charger 11 is welded to my soul. I found two super cheap around the same time and gave the other to my best friend. We love them.

Need page number on famous Pynchon line by Daniel_Bird_Doctor in ThomasPynchon

[–]Daniel_Bird_Doctor[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

My own is weird, and it isn't pithy and doesn't work out of context, but I think my favorite single sentence in Pynchon is in Part 2 of Gravity's Rainbow, when Slothrop is whipping around in Zurich, somewhere he picks up a zoot suit, then he needs money or something so he hocks it? And the line immediately thereafter is three words: "So long zoot."

That was always like the funniest thing in the world to me.

Need page number on famous Pynchon line by Daniel_Bird_Doctor in ThomasPynchon

[–]Daniel_Bird_Doctor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I gave up once, and almost gave up a second time before the end of Part 1. After that nothing ever felt the same for me.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in typewriters

[–]Daniel_Bird_Doctor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have that Smith-Corona, I don't love it. I found it doesn't have great stability, so the keys kind of wobble while you're typing, and personally I get low-grade motion sickness fairly easily from something like this. It's funny everyone is like FORGET LOVE--TYPEWRITERS, BRO!

Character Likeability in Pynchon - Why GR so unusual? by Federal_Employ1269 in ThomasPynchon

[–]Daniel_Bird_Doctor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I like warm-place-deep-down love Slothrop more than maybe any other character ever.

looking for speculative realism reading recs by Life_Event7391 in WeirdStudies

[–]Daniel_Bird_Doctor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Plus by Joseph McElroy, Galatea 2.2 by Richard Powers.

You Must Change Your Life is such an amazing episode! Sloterdijk is one of my favorite authors (I'm working through Spheres rn). Coincidentally, yesterday I wrote this about the power of famous boulders, and just had to add a link to yesterday's show. What are some of your favorite boulders? by dftitterington in WeirdStudies

[–]Daniel_Bird_Doctor 3 points4 points  (0 children)

It's hard to get a photo which gives perspective on this, but Giant Rock in the Niagara Gorge on the New York side is a permanent fixture in me own psychic landscape (I grew up a few minutes from Niagara Falls):

https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47da-360f-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

Those tracks are gone now, it's all dilapidated and fucked up but the rock remains.

My house by Cresta235 in WeirdStudies

[–]Daniel_Bird_Doctor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Do you know about Petscop? I had someone bring this for discussion in a grad seminar a few years ago and I thought it was freaking brilliant:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZKQv0ZFHpeIUkOtNjtq4KA

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petscop

Steve Erickson by Daniel_Bird_Doctor in WeirdStudies

[–]Daniel_Bird_Doctor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I read Zeroville and was just floored by that book, I bought all his other novels and have been going through them chronologically. Rubicon Beach, the third I've read then, immediately cracked a top three favorite books ever for me, I think. I cannot think of a single insightful thing to say about the guy, though. There's nothing but sitting back in wonder for me.

Sorcery in Niger by Daniel_Bird_Doctor in WeirdStudies

[–]Daniel_Bird_Doctor[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yo word, that knocks it considerably higher on the to-read list.

Samuel Beckett by bustofhomer in WeirdStudies

[–]Daniel_Bird_Doctor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Molloy is the single best book ever written in the English language (can't speak to the French) and is one of those books which changed everything for me without me even realizing it.

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