/lit/ - Literature

>>10333715
>wagie buttflamed by the truth

Nothing to see here

>>10261923
>be Jordan Memerson
>want to make a lot of $$$ and gain notoriety quickly
>perform the brave, heroic act of refusing to use someone's gender pronouns
>get worshiped as a hero by autists on the internet for whining about a letter he received from the school's faculty
>never receive any actual death threats, never have his life threatened, never actually get censored, never get imprisoned, never even get fired from his job
>simply whining about gender pronouns and being a professor of psychology is enough to be labelled a martyr for free speech by gullible anti-SJWs on the internet who desperately want an authority figure to affirm their whining
>whine about postmodernism and the cultural marxist boogeyman, even though postmodernism is a massive, broad subject never cite any actual literature or works or books by postmodernist authors or the Frankfurts, just say "they're all dumb guys trust me" like a true academic while occasionally namedropping Foucault or Derrida without actually addressing any of their arguments
>give the anti-SJWs you conned an imaginary enemy to blame all their problems on, while posing yourself as a hero when you've done jack shit and ironically whine about virtue signalling in academia while proposing no actual solutions to the postmodernist boogeyman
>fearmonger about a Canadian bill that you didn't even bother reading that was just a slight modification of a previous human rights bill that has already been in effect for decades, only it added "gender identity" to the list of criteria that you can't discriminate someone for and doesn't even affect universities because it only has federal jurisdiction
>virtue signal about how you would go on a hunger strike if you were arrested because of this bill, even though to this day no one has been arrested because of it and there isn't a single shred of evidence in the legislation or court records suggesting that would happen
>claim that a disgruntled twitter employee deleting trump's account is treason, then delete your tweet when everyone calls you out
>make 65k US dollars a month on Patreon from gullible morons who think you're brilliant for making glorified vlogs that spout Jungian purple prose, whine about children's movies being feminist propaganda and make vague, whiny criticisms of postmodernism that isn't backed by any actual evidence
Ah yes we have a true """intellectual""" on our hands.

>>9888056
>information

>>9495725
>white men are less tolerant of nonsense
This is only a good thing

>>9416063
>being this buttblasted

Reposting this from an old thread:

I like to slowly unveil my power level with the staff just to keep them in check

>"Are you looking for anything?"
>"Yes, please show me where you keep your Wallace"
>"Wallace? like David FOSTER Wallace? Whoa, cool, I thought you were gonna ask for that Steve Jobs biography or something. Yeah man, Infinite Jest's right over here.
>She hands me a copy of Infinite Jest
>her: "So you like Wallace huh, yeah me too, have you read Brief --"
>I hold up a single open hand while she is speaking, immediately silencing her, then turn to a random page in the book
>I smile quietly to myself as I read the entire page, occasionally snorting cryptically
>After finishing the page I close the book and hand it back to her, still smiling
>Me: "He's terrible, isn't he? Absolutely awful. Put that book back and please show me your Joyce"
>She puts back Infinite Jest with an alarmed look on her face, then takes me to the Joyce section of the librairie
>Her: "Joyce? Yeah I read part of Dubliners in my 400-level community college English class. Do you, uh, d-do you think he's good--"
>"Read this"
>I have shoved Finnegans Wake under her nose
>"Out loud"
>her: "ba...babba......bababadgharf....bababagargrfap--
>I rip the book out of her hands and stare directly into her eyes
>me: "Completely wrong, it's bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoor-denenthurnuk. bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonnerronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoor-denenthurnuk is portmanteau of various thunder-related words from languages all across the globe; in this context it represents Eve's tragic fall to Satan and the subsequent collapse of Eden. It is perhaps the single most important, emotive, and creative word ever spoken in the entire history of human speech, literally transcending language, and you cannot even read it."
>I throw Finnegans Wake in her face and inform the store manager that he has hired an illiterate
>I leave the store with a copy of Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception under my coat, unpaid for

Is normal to feel happyness when other people fail because it make you feel like less of a failure yourself?

>>9174501
>actually believing the "science vs. philosophy" meme

>>9160941
>thinks a woman would bite your dick off over a hair scrunchy

Back to the couch, Schopenhauer

ITT: Invent a pretentious """witty""" saying that initially looks insightful but falls apart after the slightest scrutiny. The sort of shit you'd see in literary novels. Feel free to steal mine.

All cars end up looking like their owners.

The word not said is the most influential of all.

Men have beauty in their insights. Women have insights in their beauty.

>mfw doing a PPE degree at Oxford
>mfw have a god tier network and one way ticket in to the [literary] establishment

Did anyone else find it funny when people on /tv/ said that the Batman and Superman films are good because they have Christian inspired imagery and when asked why this is supposed to be good they couldn't give any reasons? Reminds me of /lit/'s pretentiousness, except /lit/ just points to "m-muh deep philosophical themes" or any number of other reasons the academia-media-publishing industrial complex has created to excuse an artist's inability to create anything remotely entertaining.

https://en.m.wikiquote.org/wiki/Elliot_Rodger

Look who has their own wikiquote page

>mfw I tell people I'm a devout Christian but I'm lying
>mfw I studied the Bible and Theology for a few summers and know more about Christianity than 99.99 % of people
>mfw I do it all for the grossly unwarranted respect it causes people to give me and it makes me seem mature and dependable to my co-workers
>mfw my pretentious literary atheist friends are the most impressed of anyone

Kek, what a load of suckers. And one of my oldest friends is of Middle Eastern ethnicity and does similar things but with Islam

https://youtu.be/Tfy-DSuc_Kk

Prove that the repulsiveness parodied in this video is not evident among fans* of books.

*Or critics, close readers, people who take books really seriously etc

>>7550931
>He posts frogs on a malaysian boogie boarding forum

>>7211274
>having a motto

>>7178273
There has actually been some scholastic research on this. Not that i can or will find it now though, and if he was born before x era doesn't you recognize that there were an era? :)

>Meyers-Briggs

>>6914373
You know who else spends upwards of six hours a day producing an inferior product in mass quantities?

That's right, Stephen King is the Chinese factory worker of literature.

Why is it that suddenly all you nerds think you're an expert on human sexuality? Reading books doesn't make you any more qualified to opine on the subject.

ITT

Your favourite literary memes

I'll start

>Americans reading anything apart from McDonald's menu

ITT

Post your favourite literary memes

I'll start:

>Americans reading anything apart from McDonald's menu

ITT

post your favourite literary memes

I'll start

>Americans reading anything apart from McDonald's menu