/lit/ - Literature

"Literary theory is a glass-bead game whose reward for the ludic player is the knowledge that once he masters it, he will be thought by his peers to be ludicrous"
-Gore Vidal

Today Gore Vidal turns 85. Think about that as you go about your day.

>>1173857
>William F. Buckley?
What work of his could OP possibly be reffering to? Can you also remind me what was the name of his James Bond type character?

"Literary theory is a glass-bead game whose reward for the ludic player is the knowledge that once he masters it, he will be thought by his peers to be ludricrous"
-Gore Vidal

Gore Thread

>>1151774
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8m9vDRe8fw

>>1145614
As if anything of any quality is ever posted on here.

I was just gone an hour and I come back and its total mayhem, are we being raided or is it just a bad night?

>>1080548
Kalki is a really good book, the lottery tickets they drop out of the planes are actually poisoned and the entire human race dies at the end. And the main character is a lesbian VIdal obviousley based on himself.

>>1077405
Capote's best work was that rim-job he gave Vidal back in 48.

Oh god, another party full of overrated spokesman for the american intelligentsia.

Well chronologically that would be the greek. I thought this was widely known.

Gore Vidal is the superior to Fitzgerald in every way, I have read everything ever published by Vidal and I can assure you that even Vidal's lesser know works are better in every conceivable notion then "the 'GREAT' gatsby".

Gore Vidal

You all are having a WFB thread a did not invite me the Queen of all Media, Gore Vidal.

>>953731
is this the same person. there can't be more then one person who thinks this is funny.

>>948704
You are wrong.
- The book I read might have been about the colonists, and in the back of my head I think he mentioned unicorns -- don't hold me to that

Vidal never wrote a novel on the colonists, nor did he write anything about unicorns.

- He's dead

Gore Vidal is alive.

- I think most of his books were written in the early 1900s?

Gore Vidal was not alive in the early 1900's.

>>916064
Is this you. I thought you were really pretty in the picture, Then I clicked on it to enlarge it and I just thought you were kind of pretty. Like a 7 or 8. I realize you have no reason to take my critique seriousley, and It is superfecial. But please take out the nose ring.

How can people get to high school without being able to read out load? And why did the teachers tell us not to laugh? Shouldn't we laugh at people like this. It's ridiculus.

>>882763
That is not who I am.