/lit/ - Literature

>>3226544
This isn't accurate at all.

There's a quote by Tao Lin, that comes from an email he sent in trying to sell himself to the editors at gawker.com, which should help anyone who's read his works to understand why he can sometimes seem to be saying completely nothing:

>Though all meaning is arbitrary it can still be used as a tool just like arbitrary rules can be created to make life "better."

He doesn't seem to believe in truth, or consistency, or much of anything, really. The premise of nihilism, of the right being indivisible from the wrong, is, to him, a foregone conclusion, and so he deals in description and story-telling, as rhetoric and explanation are, to his take, inappropriate.

Another example, from the same email:

>I recognize both existential truths and the necessity of politics for a meaningful existence.

Given his ends, his means of conveyance - his style - is quite fitting.