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Book 5

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0. The Urtext of Insipidly Mediocre Contemporary Fiction

Fourty six years after The Recognitions first went unrecognized and thirty nine after the eponymous “Bastards” had failed to be fired, came a book that ushered in our current mentally deficient and emotionally incontinent state of affairs in Murrican letters. Entirely misunderstanding the source of its own name, it went on to massive critical and commercial success. This was a travesty nearly as horrendous as Ernest Hemingway’s stylistically bankrupt drivel gained currency among so-called “professors” of allegedly “creative” writing.

Disaster almost struck when the author—who laughably enough, thought of himself as an “elitist” in spite of being incapable of comprehending the intent of authors such as Gaddis, Hawkes, and our favorite pseudo-arboreal pot-smoking recluse—limp-wristedly lashed out against one of his benefactors. This led to a brief feud between the two equally tasteless, parasitically revered figures and their respective fanbases, which was, unfortunately, resolved. Fifteen years later, we’re still reeling from the effects of this man’s unrepentant, overrated, hackery on the American publishing landscape.

In all seriousness, it’s absolutely horrifying that this utterly talentless schmaltzmonger thinks he has any place in the “high-art literary tradition”, and worse yet, that there are critics and readers who are themselves paid off, blind, and/or ignorant enough to agree with him.

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Breakspear on a Bungee Cord?

Is April Fools /lit/?