/lit/ - Literature

>>2734073
The Ivory Tower Stayer-In
Great Molestation (Naomi Wolf tribute record)
Cantankeration
Gnosticate Heartbreak
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fatassery
Watch The Throne That Contains My Watery-Edged Weird Yellowish Poop, Because I'm a Fat Old Guy, Just To Clarify, The Throne Is A Toilet, That I Poop Into

Just been reading the Odyssey and I'm appalled. I've just finsihed the bit with the cyclops in the cave where the cyclops asks odysseus his name and he says "nobody". then odysseus' great cunning and intelligence is apparent when odysseus stabs him in the eye, cyclops starts screaming or w/e, his cyclops friends ask him who's in there and he says "nobody!!!" and they say ok and walk away

that's just fucking stupid. and that's not just by 21st century standards, it's stupid at any time written by anybody. my dog could write that, even without the accumulated knowledge of the 21st century. when will people quit thinking older = better?

why the fuck doesn't harold bloom like DFW if he likes Pynchon? I would have thought he'd be way more open to DFW's style if he liked Pynchon as well

>>2641010
> dis nigga srs

Thanks for the bump, bro.

Is there anything this man can't do?

>>2476683
>There's a sort of mental anguish/pain with lust that women won't ever be able to understand because they don't have the same biological drives. They easily have the power to manipulate whoever they want. This is why I'm a bitter misogynist

Read that post and tell me it's not written by a pathetic virgin. You are manipulated by women when you throw yourselves at them, pay for their shit, give them gifts, and are shocked when they do not open up their legs for you.

I spend most of my time manipulating women emotionally, fucking them, and then never calling them again. I'm serious. Do you know what it takes to manipulate the hot women that walk past you without acknowledging your presence? Having a good career, having other females laugh at your jokes, working out and dressing expensively. It's that fucking easy. Jesus.

Alpha the fuck up and see the other side, bro. Most people are patsys. If you want sex, you can get it. You have to work for it.

>>2328027


You are a faggot. Hell, even our fatty mascot included Left Hand of Darkness in his Western Canon. Canticle for Lebiowitz, quite a bit of PKD are also lit.

>>2293986
the Jews had their chance to save themselves from Hitler and they blew it several times. I say who cares about the holocaust, iron and blood.

How about you read the god damn book you imbecile

>asking /lit/ how not to read a book
>2011

clarified butter

Left Hand of Darkness is honest to God part of Bloom's Western Canon.

SCHOOL OF RESENTMENT CRITICS HAVE JUST MET THEIR DOOM
IM MOTHERFUCKING PROFESSOR HAROLD BLOOM

OFF TO THE DUSTBIN WITH FRENCH NIETZSCHE
OH YOU BETTER BELIEVE IM GONNA TEACH YA

OFF TO THE DUSTBIN WITH FRENCH FREUD
IS THERE A BIGGER INTELLECTUAL VOID?

THE JAHWIST WAS A GIRL
POST-STRUCTURALISM MAKES ME HURL

YOU THINK SOCIAL CONTEXT MATTERS?
MY AESTHETIC CRITICISM GONNA LEAVE YOU IN SHATTERS

FUCK STEPHEN KING
DAMN RIGHT THAT STINGS

FUCK INFINITE JEST
WALLACE FAILED THE TEST

FUCK HARRY POTTER
YOU SHOULDNT EVEN BOTHER

SHAKESPEARE'S INFLUENCE GONNA MAKE YOU JELLY
YOUR WEAK MISREADINGS ARE SMELLY

"Oh yes, I love the TV evangelists, especially Jimmy Swaggart. I loved above all his grand confession starting “I have sinned . . .,” which he delivered to all of America with his family in the front row of the auditorium. One of the most marvelous moments in modern American culture! I enjoyed it immensely. It was his finest performance. And then the revelation by the lady, when she published her article, that he never touched her! And he was paying her these rather inconsiderable sums for her to zoombinate herself while he watched. Oh dear. It’s so sad. It’s so terribly sad."

Harold Bloom included Left Hand of Darkness in his western canon.


Not even making this up.

>>1938743
The Humpty Dumpty

poetry slams are the death of art

its politicized nonsense. If it was decent lit, you'd call it capote or tennessee williams.

>>1801091
I don't assume anything, bro. Talk to me.

I'm Dr. Frasier Crane, and I'm listening.

>>1778277
Hey, now that's not very nice!

Hey guys, how about I try to encourage reading by crying over how literature is dead and that Harry Potter sucks dick? That's bound to win over some kids.

>>1699726
Not sure what you mean. Looks like a happy guy to me.

Holy fuck, I would not have pegged this guy for going out like David Carradine. At least he died doing what he loved

Lousy

>>1486936
>intro by Harold Bloom
Yes!