Also, it seems like Thomas Pynchon's imaginative plots and tangents where he comes up with ridiculous and hilarious corporate/political situations is lost because he has to spend so much fucking energy trying to create a world which no fucking reader besides for people who have a Ph.D in that particular era of history can appreciate because we don't know what the fuck he's commenting on and what the political/religious relationships are between all of the countries. I've just finished the first part and I'm considering not continuing and starting Against The Day. Does anyone else find the antiquated language irritating and tedious? I only understand about 70-75% of what they're saying because their vocabulary and syntax is so fucking exaggerated, which makes the whole reading experience really shitty, as not being confident in what the speaker is saying is not the best recipe for enjoying Pynchon's dense plots.
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I say that because many science fiction stories from the 1940s and 1950s were about breaking on through to the next stage of human existence. could be considered the Ralph Waldo Emerson of a 20th century transcendentalism, but we call it science fiction. “Desertion” is the perfect story to make my case that 1940s science fiction was often about the next evolutionary step for our species. If you haven’t read the stories please go read them now because I need to write about the details of each to make my point and that will give away major spoilers. “ Desertion” was published in the November 1944 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, and “ Paradise” in the June 1946 issue. They are also the middle stories from the classic science fiction fix-up novel City. “Desertion” and its sequel “Paradise” are from the 1940s, the so-called Golden Age of Science Fiction. Story #16 of 107: “Desertion” by Clifford D. 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