/lit/ - Literature

sorry, them's the rules

>>11206808
>any oldfag here that can provide a screenshot of even ancienter history?
I have this. /lit/ used to all hate Rand (this was before half the board was /pol/) so naturally there was a lot of troll threads for lulz.

>>9898732
>us visionaries are
>implying Rand was a "visionary"
>implying you are
>using incorrect grammar in you implication
fuck
off
this
board

>>7841700

Meta thread?

Meta thread.

We do polls and infographics about books etc all the time, but does anyone want to help me sort out the chronology of /lit/'s meme authors? What i've come up with is hardly comprehensive and some of the chronology is surely wrong.

>Ayn Rand; from day one, she was this board's troll magnet, leading to pic related
>Murakami; general agreement/frequent subject of posts
>Borges; general agreement/frequent subject of posts
>Brautigan; meme status fizzled, but was really popular for a few days, IIRC. maybe not list material.
>Tao Lin; he came here
>Joyce; ares full of farts, meme trilogy
>DWF; general agreement/frequent subject of posts, meme trilogy
>Pinecone; general agreement/frequent subject of posts, meme trilogy, alleged to have come here, but that was outed as a ruse i think. good thread, though.
>Stirner; >muh spooks
>"trolley problem"; not really an author, i guess
>Kharms; iranbro
>"start with the greeks"; we always had a lot of philo threads but i don't remember a specific greek being a meme until they were encapsulated by the SWtG meme. could totally be wrong, tho.
>Dworkin, current shitty forced meme

DFW was probably earlier? I want to say maybe Orson Scott Card and GRRM go on here somewhere, but not sure they defined the board culture, since we tend to shit on genre? i mean Rowling and Meyers got posted enough to be memetic, i suppose, but only because they were memes of the larger culture, not specifically /lit/.

i was focusing on authors, but we could open it up to all our memes if we want.

>>4762424
>trying to read Machiavelli or Ayn Rand or something.
>trying
>Ayn Rand

whoever recommended Rand to you sucks in general, and specifically s/he sucks for implying that Rand is in any way advanced fare.

just skip Rand altogether. she's an ideologue that you either hate or like according to your politics, but she sucks at actual writing.

sage for rule violation

>>4047281
ah, for the days she was actually a rule violation

>>3313068
rule 4

>>2997896
reported

>>2534667
long ago, before there was a 4chan, I liked architecture so I picked up The Fountainhead. At first I was all "Roark is cool, he's an iconoclast who really knows from architecture and just doesn't give a fuck." But, in that it is a very long book, the entire plot was about how Roark was better and didn't waver from his vision, and it was tediously written prose, I stopped about 2/3rds through. The main thing is that she can't write very well.

Much later, i was made aware how her ideas influenced conservative thought and I was like "yeah, good riddance." Basically, her ideas laid the groundwork for the 2008 financial crisis. Fuck her.

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>>2205153
>far from idle worship

I lol'd

>how about we use grown up words and reasoning

How about you learn to hyphenate, spell, and use apostrophes before you start a thread populated by /lit/erates?

Before I realized she fancied herself a philosopher and was the darling of conservative thought, I read The Fountainhead because I liked architecture. I had to put it down two-thirds of the way through. Her prose is overlong and shitty.

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>>2128681
tripe is right