/lit/ - Literature

>>23367976
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How do I write deep and complex characters?

This board needs both Theology and Geometry, some taste and decency.

>>22323576

>>22250403
Are you daft or are you merely pretending to be mentally disabled in some sort of fiendish ruse? This thread is an afront to all that is quality and geometrical on 4chan. Not that quality is abundant in this modern Gomorrah we find ourselves ensnared in. For the sake of our rapidly dwindling brain cells, I pray to God that this thread is pruned five minute ago but that would imply our vigilant jannies weren't indisposed to some vapid degeneracy far away from the likes of here. Beyond the putrid waste of time OP has generously committed us to, I find myself particularly afflicted from writing this actually nuanced post. As a matter of fact, I find that my supper tonight will already be spoiled due to the sheer stupidity brought to us by yet another summer tourist, here to lessen our disgraced board, one asinine thread at a time. If justice was alive in this graveyard of dreams we call a forum, perhaps OP would choke on his ample source of drool doubtlessly pouring from his lips this moment. Instead, however, I believe we should expect more disappointment, as per usual.

>"Early in the novel, Ignatius tells us, “I am an anachronism. People realize this and resent it.” In 1968, Toole’s hero mystified one of the country’s finest editors of fiction (Robert Gottlieb). In 1980, he seemed harmless. Forty years later, this red-pilled malcontent calling for a theofascist revival seems something else entirely. Ignatius J. Reilly—the godfather of the Internet troll, the Abraham of neckbeards, the 4chan edgelord to rule them all—was no anachronism. He was a prediction."

A confederacy of dunces.

>>21619781
Ignatius, is that you?

>>21569502
No

>barges into your workplace
>shoves a copy of The Consolations of Philosophy by Boethius into your trembling hands
>refuses to elaborate
>leaves

>>21038057

so basically the author wrote this book 60 years ago to mock me from beyond the grave

>Any non-fiction book about town losers (not necessarily drunks)? You the know the type: unemployed and virtually unemployable, no relationship history to speak of etc

Confederacy if Dunces. Instead of being a drunken loser though, Ignatius is an over-educated loser

Literally irrefutable and did nothing wrong.

Tfw just realized this guy is like a caricature of me

Read 15 this year but didn't have a goal. I will let Fortuna decide this year. Rolling.

>NEET
>Highly intelligent, socially oblivious and belligerent
>Enraged at modernity and all that it offers
>Looks down on pretty much everyone else
>TradCath
>Obsessed with an obscure late Roman/early Medieval philosopher
>In love with the mid-Century equivalent of an e-girl even if he can't admit it to himself
>Not remotely afraid to wade into racial issues and stoke racial tension
>Both repelled by and intrigued about the gays

>>19497101
I'd say the opposite - to me A Confederacy of Dunces is peak /lit/. Just look at Ignatius. He's an over intellectual Trad Cath NEET obsessed with an obscure late Roman / early Medieval philosopher, at war with modernity and everything that the middle class find tasteful or aspirational, not adverse to wade into racial issues when it suits him, and ultimately in love with the mid-Century equivalent of an e-girl, even if he can never admit it to himself.

>Oblomov
>The Underground Man
>pic related

Truly an unholy amalgamation

>>18949272
Yes

>>18877770
Is this your colleague?