/lit/ - Literature

As an HPL connoisseur, I can recommend John Langan as worth reading. Not on par with the best HPL influences like Blackwood, but close. Corpsemouth is a very good short story collection. You're welcome, ingrates.

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Professor anons, I despair.

I skipped university to get a job here in Bongland. I am not going to make out I am smarter than them or whatever (I got shitty grades but I did very well in the class) but I despaired at who I studied with.

The smartest dumb people ever. Some of my old high school class mates are editors at literary journals now. Their work is incomprehensible bullshit. "Publishing for the proles: a gendered analysis of black and brown writers struggling against a cis white printing process". Shit like this appears as their featured monthly piece. And I have argued with them and they don't know a single thing about life they are opinion regurgitators. They are not even smart, they just have memories for sound bites and screeds.

And what is worse, they are so smug, they are above criticism. I spoke to one of these people and claimed something rather taboo about a minority religion. They stormed out of the room, stormed back in, screamed at me "I am a scholar!" As if to tell me they knew this place and people and faith intimately so they KNEW it better than us all, and therefore we HAD to listen.

How the fuck do we breakthrough this attitude? "I have a prestige qualification from a prestige place with prestige and accepted opinions". It makes me despair.

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kek, I think removing the underline is good. But it lends itself to accusations of photoshop. Here's another alternative.