/lit/ - Literature

>always taught in English classes not to use passive voice for brevity & clarity
>academic articles I read in grad school all use passive voice for word padding & obfuscation

>>15247563
>catholic equivalent to a vernacular Bible
Is this a troll or are you trying to make a point?

>Duchovny attended Grace Church School and The Collegiate School For Boys; both are in Manhattan. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa[17] from Princeton University[3] in 1982 with an A.B. summa cum laude in English literature. He was a member of Charter Club, one of the university's eating clubs. In 1982, his poetry received an honorable mention for a college prize from the Academy of American Poets. The title of his senior thesis was The Schizophrenic Critique of Pure Reason in Beckett's Early Novels.[18] He played junior varsity basketball at Princeton.[19] He earned a Master of Arts in English Literature from Yale University and subsequently began work on a Ph.D. that remains unfinished.[3] The title of his uncompleted doctoral thesis is Magic and Technology in Contemporary Fiction and Poetry.
clearly /ourguy/
also a well known degenerate, he probably posts here

Where does the thin line between pretentious pseud and knowledgeable man of taste, reason and culture lies?
Is it even real or is it just "the guy I don't like vs. guy I like"?
If not, how does one cross that line?

>>11884724
>life is about being healthy and economically prosperous

Sounds like another neo-liberal drone who wants to reduce everything to numbers. Yu hopeless bastards.

why is everyone acting like this isn't someone trying to make a pasta

>>8208353
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To answer your question though: He's a nameless, talent-less schmuck who has managed to manoeuvre himself into a position where by he can make a living and prosper financially from other, even more moronic schmucks.