Slothrop & Schnorp - A Reading: 'Gravity's Rainbow', Pynchon

[airman13579]

this is one of my favorite parts in gravity's rainbow

[filmerado]

This man is like the NYC bookseller Thomas Dukleth without the fake British accent

[8echokilo]

Nice. Thank you. Ignore the aimless vitriol.

[stealthbombin]

clearly you love the sound of your own voice.

i bet you smell your own farts as you read, too.

and you talk about organizing a reading of gravity's rainbow...

you, sir, are a clevinger.

cantblockproxies is right—pynchon would think you are a loser.

anyone who tries to sound intelligent by demonstrating their vocabulary is a loser.

it does not take a special mind to remember big words and/or use a thesaurus.

[CantBlockProxies]

jburnha,

Any new videos coming? I so enjoy the affectation of a man who measures every word for effect! Maybe you can graphically design yourself a less pretentious disposition? Roflroflroflroflrofl.

[CantBlockProxies]

Dear delusional nerd, you're a graphic designer; you are not a writer, not an ARTIST, and definitely not a genius--so please: stop pretending. Do you even know what Gravity's Rainbow is about? "It's about graphic design, right?" LOL. Sorry, but no; it's about issues that people who are graphic designers will find impossible to comprehend. Your community college professors must have been very impressed by your passion for a work so above you. They must have thought, wow, what a tool.

[bobb328]

@CantBlockProxies you just wrote 7 maximum character count comments about how stupid someone reads a book and how he has no life. You are obviously the tool that has no life.

[CantBlockProxies]

"Maintaining the oral tradition." LOL. This kid is so far up his own ass, which I suppose is an inevitability being that it offers the most insular, disconnected existence possible. What oral tradition? The tradition of reading work that you have nothing to do with, recording the reading, then posting it on YouTube because you have no fucking life whatsoever? How long has that tradition been in effect? A year? LOL. I wonder how much not-sex this person has had in his life--I'm betting a lot.

[CantBlockProxies]

I have a great idea for your next video! You can finger paint "Starry Night" for us! 'Cuz that's a great painting that anyone can view if they wish right? Ya, but why would anyone want to look at the actual work when they can have you relay it using your socially awkward nerd skills!!! Oh, and maybe you can dub over the painting--which you may want to present in a time-lapse style--a reading from Ulysses! Why enjoy the actual genius when we can see you pretend to be one! It's fantastic!!!!!!!!!!

[noreggi]

@CantBlockProxies Why are you being such a dick? Your obviously taking a lot of time to write this shit. Its just not a nice thing to do, go write a short story.

[JianyuTheLegend]

@noreggi

Uhhh, CantBlockProxies was one of the greatest people on YouTube, and was a genius (especially because of his videos)

you're nobody.

[theotherther1]

@JianyuTheLegend

I've never seen his videos, but he's an arrogant psychological cripple. His only responses to people are narcissistic put-downs. A Google search of his name confirms that he is still trumpeting his superiority over all life on other forums.

I don't care how great his videos are or were-if you could go to prison just for being a jerk he'd have a life sentence by now.

[JianyuTheLegend]

@theotherther1

He died in a car accident a couple of months ago, I suggest not defiling his name since it's dishonorable to talk negatively about the dead.

[noreggi]

@JianyuTheLegend

Hehe, I went to try and look at CantBlockProxies videos and instead saw his comment history, what a joke.

Im most certainly somebody, fuck you.

[CantBlockProxies]

WTF is your problem? You read like a fag. Stop raping Pynchon with your mouth!!! Nice collection of books though. I guess you live in a library.

[jburnha]

Tragic.

[CantBlockProxies]

Hahahaha. I love it! Feigned maturity by way of brevity! Oh yes!!! You're so much better than me, correct? Because you're absolutely above such juvenile vitriol! I'm not fooled; unlike you, I'm not a poser: I know the true nature of the human condition: you're just like me: we're all very much the same. (Pwnd.) P.S. I guarantee Pynchon would tell you that you're a fucking loser for recording yourself reading his work--absolutely guarantee.

[jburnha]

Pedantic.

You are the one clearly over-concerned with your projections... you are also elevating "Pynchon's" opinion through your own self-obsessed construction that is you; you a drop in a bucket fathoms deeper than anyone's comprehension. Carry on.

Thirdly, commenting on forums with 'vitriol' clearly indicates a level of maturity warranting a knowledge of "the true nature of the human condition". Seriously? Cast another line, I am done.

[CantBlockProxies]

LOL!!! Thank you for proving my point!! I got you to respond at length; not only that: I got an extremely prolix response from you! Is someone trying to "project" a greater sense of accomplishment and entitlement than he really possesses? I think so! Thus: (1) Pretentious (2) Immature! (3) Pwnd BTW, your prose is shit! Your diction, as well, is shit! LOL. Yes, I feel comfortable using internet nomenclature such as LOL. P.S. "you a drop in a bucket fath..." is that supposed to be English? Rofl!!!

[mattttch]

great reading chap. i think my favorite passage is Bryron the light bulb. Pynchon is one of the top 10-15 writers in american history. looking forward to reading inherent vice.

[Fawksian21]

Reading Henry Miller's "Tropic of Cancer" right now and struck by how similar his style (episodic, nearly-unrelated chapters) is to Pynchon. I'm sure Pynchon was familiar with him of course, since he's apparently very well-read.

[sivagitagod]

Pynchon uses a quote from Tropic of Cancer to introduce his first really characteristic short story (Entropy).

[Fawksian21]

Interesting. I've yet to read "The Slow Learner," as I'm in the middle of "Mason & Dixon," but it makes sense. Can't wait to see what Pynchon's thought up for his new book, "Inherent Vice," in August.

[idwalfisher]

right at the end of the reading ... in the south of France .... Carcassonne is pronounced Car-cass-sonne with emphasis on elongating the last syllable. I hate to be pedantic in the face of such good work but y'know ....

[slothorentropy82]

okay people read Pynchon writing on Aquainas and SLOTH-IT is SLOTH OR ENTROPY an Anagram for SLOTHROP! I'll see if I can upload a chapter of a reading-let do it in Pynchonian fashion with total ANonymity, and then I'll read some Don Dellilo and then we all will read every author who graudted from that Highschool in Covenntry, NY like Delillo, and Pycnhon-woops!!

[EasyMac4Life]

Lol 4:35 FU#K YOU!!!

[EasyMac4Life]

That was f#%kin crazy

[tomwetmore]

I don't know if anyone else has posted, but I believe "gunwale" is, in fact, pronounced "gunnel." Perhaps your pronunciation is also correct, but I doubt it. Take care!!

[snewhous]

You look like a dorkier version of ewan macgregor in star wars. Good reading, and the whole project sounds like a very cool idea - I'm a huge pynchon supporter.

Couple of suggestions:

1) a different camera angle, perhaps.

2) I believe you're pronouncing tyrone's name wrong as Sloth - Ropp. The final vowel is supposed to be soft, and Slothrop should be pronounced like the name "Winthrop" aka Sloth-rup.

[MrtvaPriroda]

and u should leave, professor...

[slothorentropy82]

I read the novel twice. Great job on the reading.

[MrtvaPriroda]

twice ? wow...congratz , man... one serious radical and fanatic...good nerves

[jburnha]

I think I have read GR a total of six times (usually for pleasure but also for a class in college once,-I think I was the only kid that talked in that class)... as well as Vineland thrice, MandD and V. twice. Such prose are a great way to start the morning or end the day, even with Lot 49 and Against the D.

[Damfino83]

What's wrong with Lot 49?

[Neanderthal78]

One of my all time favorite books. My favorite line is still the opening line "A screaming comes across the sky".

[hornwell]

best opening line ever

[gsboss]

is the book that hard?

[hornwell]

Yes! Harder than the balalaika of the Schwarzgerat in Walpurgisnacht, smoother than the judenschnautze feinting of a flirting jewess,

and colder than the nipple on a witches tit!

Colder than a bucket of penguin shit!

Colder than the hairs of a polar bears ass!

Colder than the frost on a champagne glass!

[gsboss]

lol ok

[desolateangel83]

Great job! I want to finish "Gravity's Rainbow" someday before I die.

[derspringer]

Thanks alot dude...not much in the way of Pynchon audio to be found. I really enjoyed that.

[EinSofVirtuoso]

Pynchon is the Joyce of today and yet supdersedes him.

[buskotteke]

you can't supersede joyce

nor do i see a reason to do so

[ichbinderausgang]

nice, I'd had the thought of doing a bootleg audio versions of the books that don't have a audio version

[ColdChicago]

burn the house of brutus huddle close to the alcohol flame chronicle the cold war be wistful in your bling bling the fault is not in rome but in the romans gauleiter kommt raus hat etwas gefunden aber hat kein haus kein hirn und konte nicht schreiben

[tomaspollard]

Thanks for the simple reading of a passage that makes a difficult book seem less obtuse. You capture the song and fun of the book well. The books sounds so much more American and pop than looking at it on the page. This will definitely change how I read this great novel!

[ThrowbackTheHomebo]

Another great reading - thanks!

btw that's Geli with a hard g as in goddamn - i was pondering - Jelly? Who the fuck was Jelly?

[jburnha]

I always took 'Geli' to be short for Angelika and therefore the name would be "Jelly"..? But that is always part of the joy of Pynchon, eh?

[jem2017]

G in German is a hard g. Also, there's a pun in her name: gaily tripping = cheerfully stepping/dancing.

Great idea to do a reading. We should organize a You Tube reading of GR -- each of 700+ people reads a page...

[DEH22291]

I'm down for it - or if anyone can video edit then we could do like an episode or chapter or what ever you call them each, just that we will probably fuck up once or twice so we will need to edit them out. what you think? (can i shotgun the one where katje and enzian discus blicero? or the last one)

[jem2017]

Well, the easiest thing would be to post a little intro that says: I'm reading page one of GR, someone post a video response with page two, and so on in a chain of video responses.

I'm not too concerned about flubs or mistakes. The collaborative effort would be the main thing. I wouldn't be bothered by a few imperfections.

Maybe Pynchon himself will tune in to read a page, though he might only display his shadow on the wall as he reads.

Let's do it!

[mdhookey]

Thomas Pynchon is amazing. More people should read Gravity's Rainbow.

"There are no zones but the Zone."

[OscarCommie]

Good stuff sir

[luisabebe2]

beautiful reading ...definitely

[luisabebe2]

I agree ...pure genius... ex: "Sa-a-a-y", asks the colonel, taken by a sudden thought," does it ever snow here in Happyville?" "Does what ever snow?" "You're evading." :)

[cosmicquestgirl]

thomas pynchon........pure genius