/lit/ - Literature

>>20661698
but my dear you are a terrible conversationalist and when else am I going to find spare time to read William of Rubruck's account of the Great Khan? do you think the drama of your workplace can compete with a man who explained Christ to a king of all savages? can the drama surrounding your warm and slimy hole compete with the man Roger Bacon called Brother William?

>>14642703

>>6878078
you were sayin?

""Were Hroswitha with us today, we would all look to her for counsel and guidance. From the austerity and tranquility of her medieval world, the penetrating gaze of this legendary Sybil of a holy nun would exorcise the horrors which materialize before our eyes in the name of television. If we could only juxtapose one eyeball of this sanctified woman and a television tube, both being roughly of the same shape and design, what a phantasmagoria of exploding electrodes would occur. The images of those lasciviously gyrating children would disintegrate into so many ions and molecules, thereby effecting the catharsis which the tragedy of the debauching of the innocent necessarily demands.""

Was Toole the first PoMo author?

>>6548868
looks like bajina

Any thoughts on "A confederacy of dunces" by John Kennedy Toole?

No spoilers, please.

What is the most based character of the literature and why is Ignatius Reilly?