/lit/ - Literature

>>11556153

This would be it.

>"I hate irony!"
>"Well, that's great and all, but the Wardine be cry part is some of the worst writing I've ever read, with the exception of your literary idol Stephen King, who you made students read at Emerson. It sounded like you've never heard a black person talk in your life."
>"Oh, well, uh, that was the point. It was ironically bad writing that was meant to ironically mimic how white people who have never heard black people talk before."

You can replace a Shakespeare play's title with 1 letter but you can't change anymore details

>>9347483
>Dostojevskij
is someone sharing the /lit/ top 100 graphic on reddit again?

>>9143021
"I am smart"

>>8998573

Infinite Jest is just a dude who wasted a lifetime meant for experience on sitting in creative writing seminars drunk on Pynchon.

I just imagine him sitting at a desk seething in the shadow of Gravity's Rainbow like all American writers have struggled with at some time, popping a bunch of pharmaceuticals (he hasn't even lived enough to be a proper addict, his drug dealer is a fucking doctor and his television) and getting all excited, and hopping over to a typewriter even though he lives in the age of computers, hoping that he can cobble his tennis lessons, addiction to TV, creative writing classes, and negligibly interesting months wasted in a rehab center in his late twenties.

This also is the death of Rimbaud, in a way, when "write what you know" becomes the central truth, and we must know plodding autobiography, and poetry is replaced by outdated Merck pharmaceutical manuals.

All great aspects of art die in Infinite Jest.

Fuck this board. 2 years ago it was exclusively Catholics, Marxists and 2-3 alcoholics who would occasionally show up for actual discourse on literature and philosophy. The board is literally a reddit, r9k, pol shitposting ground now. And when I said it was coming, all the responses were "le reddit boogeyman XD" The front page right now: 2 Sam Hyde posts about his new book (basically House of Leaves for Men's Rights Activists), um "Orson Scott Card is literary and /lit/ is pretentious", and a frogposter threatening to kill himself with no mention of a book.
The Golden Age is done.