/lit/ - Literature

>>2917100
>I agreed I am a pleb like other plebs in this thread and we should let this kid become a pleb too because that is what he wants and everyone should be happy to be a pleb because it is not tiring or straining my neurons and I don't like when I have to think
Potatoes can't stand upright if they're not in a bag...

>>2884047

>You must be old

already told you I'm 40

>and sad

not often - bored mostly

>and pathetic.

I'm on 4chan periodically - you do the math, as the colonial cousins say.

Anyway, my bath really is ready now, so I'm off to drink and steep.

ttfn.

>>2706367

HA - that's just reminded me of something else from my university career (1st Class, BA (Hons) Bristol University, so inb4 shit college).

I always used to write my essays really late, so there were never any good books in the library and I wasn't paying for them, fuck that, and there was no pirating it onto your kindle in those days (unless you were shagging a buccaneer, but that's another story).

Anyway, there was this one book called Look Out, Whitey! Black Power's Gon' Get Your Mama!, by Julius Lester, and it was NEVER, EVER checked out of the library. So I used it in nearly every single essay I wrote (never overdoing it with the same tutor, obviously).

Anyway, it slowly dawned on my drunk and wasted self that a) none of my tutors had ever read it and b) nobody was going to call me on my bullshit or question my source because hey! we no racist!!!

By the end, I was making up quotes and ascribing them to Lester.

>According to Lester [1969:190 The inner quality of beauty is not in fact truth, but your momma, so Keats' ascriptions must be viewed from a different perspective. By questioning Keats ontology, Lester questions our understanding of Keats metrical experiment bla bla bla bla

and the tutor would be all like

>fuck off anon, you're doing my head in with this shit. Have a degree and a scholarship for your Phd

and I was all

>yeah, whatevs. mfw

>I’m a perfectionist. I go to great lengths to get it all right. It’s the biggest challenge I face when I’m writing. If you’re confused about something in one of my books, you’ve just got to realize, Ellroy’s a master, and if I’m not following it, it’s my problem. You just have to submit to me.

- James Ellroy

Are all novelists power-hungry, voyeuristic perverts?

>>1948934
>>1948936

>mfw OP has no response to either of these posts

>encylycopaedia

I'm probably too late, but it's worth a shot!
http://amzn.com/w/V1P7PS2M83CY