/lit/ - Literature

D A V I D F A G G O T W A L R U S

- his library is full of pop self help books, fully marked up. this is what he based his philosophy on.
- killed himself cuz a wannabe pynchon
- ugliest writer of all time: not ugly like a man, but ugly like a woman
- bandana = his security blanket
- he thinks he got us beyond post-modernism, lel, must've never heard (let alone read) levinas etc
- our greatest literary critic, at least most well read, Harold Bloom:
>“You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ [regarded by many as Wallace’s masterpiece] is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent.”

As Nabokov tells us, we should
>"condemn the fashionable device of entitling a collection of essays or a volume of poetry — or a long poem, alas — with a phrase lifted from a more or less celebrated poetical work of the past. Such titles possess a specious glamour acceptable maybe in the names of vintage wines and plump courtesans but only degrading in regard to the talent that substitutes the easy allusiveness of literacy for original fancy and shifts onto a bust's shoulders the responsibility for ornateness since anybody can flip through a Midsummer Night's Dream or Romeo and Juliet, or, perhaps, the Sonnets and take his pick." (Nabokov 1989, 240)

Yes, friends, I am mad. And you should be too.

When will /lit/ be good again?

>>3580422

What are you talking about? What 'translation'?

>>3580420

>mfw

>>3573506

Poetry isn't good if it's not being read out loud? What do you mean by that?

>>3548138
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>Dexter
>English syllabus

I smell a former polytechnic.

goddamn i literally control everything it doesn't stop

any other stoic gnostics out there

>>3486432
>sophism designed to turn people off to philosophy
>fun

>this thread

>>3383676

he's the hero literature deserves.

God damn /lit/ sucks today

>Jump up
>Skillfully withdraw my smallsword from its perennial place at my hip
>"en garde you plebeian!"
>"lol what the fuk r u doin fagget"
>"Defending my refined tastes from your barbarism; now draw!"
>He sucker punches me in the chest
>Fall down
>Sputter in between painful heaves that he probably reads books for the plot
>Chuckle a little bit at the thought
>He kicks me in the chest again and then walks away laughing
>Mfw I've won ANOTHER argument

>Jump up
>Skillfully withdraw my smallsword from its perennial place at my hip
>"en garde you plebeian!"
>"lol what the fuk r u doin fagget"
>"Defending my refined tastes from your barbarism; now draw!"
>He sucker punches me in the chest
>Fall down
>Sputter in between painful heaves that he probably reads books for the plot
>Chuckle a little bit at the thought
>He kicks me in the chest again and I call out Harold Bloom's name
>Mfw I've won ANOTHER argument

>>3283281
Funnily enough, I thought isolation would make me smarter. How wrong I was.

>>3271919
The vomit is flowing freely now.

>>3268252

Forgot to sage this piece of shit plebeian thread.

>>3237928
He's being ironic.

>>3232443
>Le rainman face

>>3229173

>Literature leads to religion
>mfw

1. libgen.info or similar
2. find bloom's Shakespeare: Invention of the Human
3. read chapter on midsummer's night

congrats, you're now reading it better dot jay peg

>>3188048

>>>/b/

manchild pls go

> mfw critical theorists with shitty prose tries to usurp a creative writer with great prose

>>3149616

>>3144727

"than"

And no it doesn't. We don't want your insipid boorishness here. Wise up or go back to having banal shit-flinging matches with the kids on the board you came from.