/lit/ - Literature

what do you guys think of zanzotto?

"stop defacing the mead hall"

poems about spirals

gollum is vaguely shaped human with no soul

i thought the dwarves were the jews and the elves were the disappearing straight cis white male in western society

structural genre in general is toxic past a certain point. although that point is different for every genre it always comes.
you start writing to fill a form instead of to tell a story effectively, or that form has been reasonably exhausted.
writing in the future will be a mix of some things that came before it, with a few new key elements, which will in turn crystallize into toxic genre categories again, etc. general but i don't really keep up with really bleeding edge contemporary things.
that being said, structural form is entirely different than narratological form

i don't even know what palahniuk and ellis are getting at. they're confusing an economic distinction for a structural one. there's some mix but it's mostly a confusion on their part.

>the books produced by authors in these genres will only be known within these genres/groups
what is a coterie audience? everything that came before..

>>3585528
> You can't have good taste unless the majority of people have bad taste.
>>>/mu/

i wonder what those guys in op thought of 'the comedy'?

>logical discussion
>'poetry' as rigorously-defined category

i'm sure /pol/ has come in or will at some point so the rest of this thread can p much be summed up with
>niggers are stupid
>all hip-hop is stupid/made for stupid people/mass consumption
>muh Petrarchan sonnet form
>muh philosophical themes
etc.

http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11985
http://www.complex.com/music/2011/12/michael-boyd-says-jay-z-nas-and-eminem-are-the-inheritors-of-shakespeare
^michael boyde namedrop jay-z, nas, and eminem as a contemporary examples of poets

this thread is always shit but i've never seen those links posted so there they are
btw it's got nothing to do w/ old-school vs. new-school or underground or whatever
billy woods is pretty mediocre imo
/thread

what goes away when someone falls asleep
a complex computer processing a representation of itself
neurons firing in syncopated wave-patterns
cognitive aspects described quantitatively by datapoints demarcating shapes in qualiaspace
some mix thereof

>>3515381
lel i know

>>3515364
notice how ellis cherrypicks rand quotes for use in a distorted and internalized schema operating as both an mo and device through which to foist hamfisted identity politics on his captive twitter audience
disgusting

typical liberal

sunhawk is /lit/'s shepard tone
you think every thread he posts is the worst he's posted, and you look back and see that each one was just as bad

german hangover food guy, you post on /lit/?

I hear he went mad in his final years

>>3454146
>>3452866
lol, you're supposed to get into columbia and party with the nyu kids on the weekend

The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity--those who refuse out of dull anguish, those who hesitate, lose their chance at divinity--those who mold themselves blind masks of Ideas & thrash around seeking some proof of their own solidity end by seeing out of dead men's eyes.

>>3390486
it's probably from some part of the crystal display
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birefringence

robert ryman is cool too

>>3383645
titus andronicus

bernhard

>>3359536
no

yeah

hopefully you've read the eliot essay already
http://people.virginia.edu/~jdk3t/eliotulysses.htm