/lit/ - Literature

What is irony? What is Post-Irony? What is Meta-Irony? What is sincerity? What literature helps best explain this phenomenon?

>>19483873
That's a good idea, original doesn't always matter as long as it's told interestingly.

>>19444712
Nah, fuck that. That isn't what I meant. This sounds like pussy shit, I don't want you as my girlguy. Keep that bussy away from me, the smell from your clench of oyster disturbs me. You're suggesting some sort of transworld. I meant more like all women are born with guy brains. Hunter gatherers. (suddenly being hunted themselves, though.) I do, however, dread the idea of all women suddenly finding farts funny. Highly unattractive. And I also worry, that the mere separation between sexes, having different genitalia, would lead to men and "women" still being totally different, because they grow up with different expectations and treatment. I'd rather turn it into fiction, where I don't have to explain the logic and just go with it. I'd call it "dudeworld" or something, you can suggest me a better title though.

>>19443923
I'm fine thank you yes.

>>19432071
I partly agree with this list being shitty. For I find provocation for provocation's sake — as is prevalent in our contemperary pornographic industry — highly deplorable. I recognize my pro-censorship attitude towards such media as being highly hypocritical. I despise the Muslim's actions over The Satanic Verses. Yet, would something similarly blasphemous be written about Western Europe in such a style and manner, I'd find it offensive garbage as well. (The only difference being, I wouldn't call for an outright fatwah. I do however doubt we would've reacted differently in the past.) I find it hard to reconcile my hatred for over-sexualized, cheap, and provocative media with my beliefs regarding freedom of speech, press, privacy, authorship, and even ridicule. It's hard to draw a line and it mostly comes down to personal preferences and taste. (An almost similar discussion as the regards what constitutes "art"). So, what I'm trying to say. Most of these books, I find deplorable, the ones I don't find deplorable, I simply hesitate to pick up because of its subject matter. I almost feel like you should guard yourself against reading "bad" books". I know, for example, that A Brave New World, 1984, and Animal Farm are good books, having read their descriptions, receptions, and impact. Yet, such books are not cut out for me. I'd rather guard myself against such thoughts, as I do with news, which I on the whole ignore.