/lit/ - Literature

>>11237725

>Everything came easily to Wallace. He was blessed with severe genius, but it was also a curse, as all blessings are also curses. It tormented him to know that he could do anything he wanted. Think any thought imaginable. Life, he once said, came to him at ten times the speed it comes at everyone else. He could read The Bible in fifteen minutes. He took math apart and put it back together again for fun. In fiction, finally, he thought he had found a pursuit that would accommodate his abilities. The novel was his Everest, as Infinite Jest is our Everest. But where he ascended effortlessly, we will take centuries to match him.

>"Shut up about Infinite Jest." Right. Should we also shut up about Hamlet, The Canterbury Tales, and The King James Bible? Should physicists shut up about Einstein? Should historians shut up about the past? This is a literature board. Infinite Jest is the greatest example of literature we have. A discussion about literature that doesn't mention Infinite Jest is like a discussion about religion that doesn't mention God.

>You claim to have read Infinite Jest—the most harrowing book about alcoholism ever written—and yet you also claim to drink. This cannot be anything but a contradiction.

>Of course, that Dostoevsky essay was more of a herald for Infinite Jest and only ostensibly about Joseph Frank's biographies of the Russian author. Wallace uses the book review form really as a prologue to his novel. Scholars are coming to terms with the way Wallace used extranovelistic forms as adjuncts to the novel itself. It may be necessary to include these essays in future Critical Editions of Infinite Jest. Although of course what am I saying. Infinite Jest performs its own exegesis, and a Critical Edition would be redundant.

>Infinite Jest is as powerful an anti-war novel as any we've had. Of course, it's also the greatest manual for warfare ever written that every general would do well to read. If they sold the Eschaton section separately, there would be no reason to print Sun Tzu's Art of War. Of course, Wallace was interested in covering more than just warfare, and so Infinite Jest is too large as a substitute. This was, of course, his intention.

hahaha holy shit

no.

>>7094551
I mean....Do you think they started off as well meaning, philanthropic individuals who just suddenly became corrupted via the process of having to organise the redistribution of incomes? Or are you actually asserting that any legitimate regime would be physically incapable of implementing socialist policies?

>Using the word "literally" figuratively

Fucking homos

I only own about a dozen of those books so they're not even close. It's also an insulting insinuation that I would own let alone read all those pleb books.

>>5493460

I'm sorry TBotNS isn't diverse enough for you

>>5359638
No words

>>4992762
>"It is better to let a thousand men die than to save the life of one,"

>>4914233
>that moment when you realize everyone on /pol/ is dead serious.

Since we're just hijacking this thread to bitch about other boards, I cast my vote for /pol/.

>Love reading
>Come to /lit/
>4 poem threads with terrible teenage angst
>Philosophy threads that would make a first year college student cringe
>circle jerking threads consisting off "isn't this author terrible?" or "isn't this author great?" and everyone agreeing except for some random tripfag begging for attention with some dumbass name reflective of the one German philosopher they heard about one time.
>mfw

Is all of /lit/ like this? Or are the real readers just silenced by the vocal minority?

>>4722956
>>4722959
>>4722963

>tfw when you're nodding your head reading something, and then it turns out to be conspiracy fascist drivel

why the fuck does every religious debate devolve into a definition/framework war. Atheists always swear that atheism is technically not a "belief" or 'religion" while theists want to lump-define atheism and agnosticism under one umbrella. Honestly who gives a fuck what the labels are?

This is still preferable to /b/ level religion flamewars, but not by much

>common misconception that Africa is a country
>common

Common among who, people with downs syndrome? People over the age of twelve think this?

gtfo polfag

trying to sound polite doesn't make you any less retarded

kindly fuck off