/lit/ - Literature

>I'm going to cram as many references as possible into a single paragraph.
>Never mind that people don't actually talk or think like this.
>The more abtruse the references are, the more loudly people will praise my writing, for fear of appearing ignorant.
>What's that, prose you say?
>An artiste such as myself need not concern himself with such pedestrian matters.
>If I insert enough Shakespeare, Plato, Aquinas, and also literally every single writer I have ever read, no one will think to question the merits of the prose itself.

Bravo, Joyce, Bravo!
I am lmaoing at all of these "scholars" autistically poring over every line of this text in order to extract every last drop of meaning and nuance like juice out of an orange.