/lit/ - Literature

>>7406757
Hi Hermione. I'm idle rich, so order whatever you want. Oh, I think I've heard of that company. It's in my portfolio somewhere.

Is that how we met? I had my girlfriend, Miyako, find us a fourth wheel so I don't know where she dug you up. Fifteen year-old exchange students think up the darnedest things!

One of my girlfriends just moved out of town for... reasons, so I had room on my social calendar for this. We haven't found her yet, so she's probably in one of those places with black people you listed. You don't have the AIDs, do you? If I catch that, people will think I'm a faggot.

I know, it's not an Ivy or Oxford, but my dad's a trustee and I was too busy with high-level competitive athletics and modelling to work up an application to Oxford. Oh, to be young and foolish again. I tore all the pages out of Gravity's Rainbow and wallpapered my bathroom with them, so I guess that counts.

Feminism? Oh yeah, girls who are into that are usually just sexual submissives who've been made to feel insecure about it, but I'm down for whatever in bed, no judgement.

>>7407894
>I started dating my girl when she was 13
That's nice. Is she going to talk you into not getting her pregnant until she's 30 so she can "see the world?"

>>7220646
Not everybody does, but plenty of artists benefit enough from college that it's worth some soul-searching to decide if you really want to go without. Honestly, I question whether anyone who lacks the juice to get a scholarship to a state school should really stake their future on a cerebral, self-disciplined endeavour like writing fiction.

>>7216675
>debate
>modern collegiate debate
No. When they beat the Harvard kids at Putnam Prize problems, then I'll be impressed. Debate is owned by the biggest left-wing, burn-it-all fanatics right now and this judgement, nay this entire event, was almost certainly motivated by the prospect of making viral social media posts about how prisoners are all good boys who dindu nuffin and college kids are all actual drooling retards getting by on unearned privilege.


>our best orators in action
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmO-ziHU_D8

>>7207600
Your reading comprehension's not so tight. Maybe you should take a year off to travel to the great libraries of the world and work on that :')

>>7204924
Why is Mexico so anti-intellectual? I'm an American who's lived in Mexico and honestly the average Mexican attitude towards anything intellectual is astounding.

>>7177277

Most people at universities shouldn't be at universities in the first place. Once you realize this, it makes sense that there would be pressure for these people to at least get some extra future income out of their High-School 2.0 experience. If you're smart enough to contribute anything in more esoteric fields, then you should be smart enough to rate a top 30 university or top 15 liberal arts college. From one of those institutions it's common to study a liberal arts field and still get a good job through networking/internships/general high drive and intelligenceI personally think a society where everyone can study such things would be a beautiful society, but the academy is an unnecessary accessory to the level most people will ever take it to.

>Is this a map of whiteness distribution?
>Oh, it's IQ.

Feels good to be from Alabama and still have an IQ of at least 150.

>>7015915
That's a valid concern, but my aim is more to point out what's good about it so he can look for that, since a lot of people who post about Pynchon on here seem to be missing the highlights. Way too many people complaining that Gravity's Rainbow and M&D are full of shaggy dog tales, when in fact those bits that seem pointless are the real joy of the novel. If you know to look for allusions to future events, trends and attitudes, you'll get a lot more out of Mason and Dixon than if you read it as le whacky alternate history.

>>6913449
>not being in a Final Club at Harvard

Are you poor, or did you just phone it in in high school?