/lit/ - Literature

>>14356045
>France has only created a few good artistic works like Ernest and Celestine.

Written by a Belgian. Oof. Advances a bitter a know-it-all opinion without any back up except a single verifiable fact... that he gets wrong.

>>14310542
Quit. (Before.you say you're 'addicted': addiction is a meme pathology used to excuse the lazy and the weak for their egotism and self-indulgence, and to assert biomedical control over these weaklings.)

>>14103025
Imagine this fella, writing this book, contorting his prose around these notions like the kyphotic spine which is his subject, trying to extend it through sclerotic cultural movements high and low, feeling the ecstasy of a Dr. Frankenstein biopsying his own body... Only to have the book land with a dull thwap, stillborn.

However, there is always the consolation of similarly grieving mothers: the immediate circle of PhD students, all geniuses, all suspended in mid-air by the ecstasy of their own genius, touched by the divine, destined to be looked back upon favourably by future generations... Or so they can tell one another at conferences.