/lit/ - Literature

>>16452327
why did the author choose an idealized symbol of virginity when the main character definitely sports bikini bologna?

>>14235924
It reminds me of the Madame Psychosis portions of IJ where shes reading medical terminology, but truth be told, the parts of IJ that strike my emotions are not that.
I know its asking a great deal, but I wish more authors would seek to prescribe, take stake in right now, even fuck, as one might say. I think literature that does not cross our noumenal thresholds and give direction or greater insight, bestowing power to the reader on behalf of the work of the author, those lesser works will be separated during our era, differentiated from that which does succeed in this way, namely because we are so desperate for authors to take that risk, for authors to seek that missing innoculant to the "everythings-great-just-chill-and-buy" mantra essential to American society, to lay it bare, maybe destroy it, undermine it, upend it, but show us also the seedlings in the ashes, the stronger patterns, the hidden glacial forces that may be our salvation. Having read, Ducks, Newburyport, the ride was unique, but the author avoided saying anything of powerful note. Its like you're viewing the geriatric witness to the singularity where were told nothing makes sense afterwards and the book seems the product of someone struck in that way by now.