/lit/ - Literature

remember when gaddis was the hot new thing and everyone on here's favorite book was recognitions except for the ahead-of-the-curve contrarians who liked JR more?

two ways in, two ways out. signal interceptions, ICE, DEA, spies in the sky. 3 million wholesale in un-monitored stones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPKXvHjor1g

can someone please explain logos? i'm trying to understand sophia, as wisdom, and not really getting very far. plz help

>>9629819

>>9574011
>>9573965

it's like people who watch the latest shows and movies. they want to feel part of it all - to hold up the societal mirror of reflection and see if they are living up to the standards they asked someone else to set for them.

my account is a random name but it's connected to facebook so some girls i know will friend me - each one of them is reading the same garbage by okinichugabe nigbongo about the african experience.

it's the type of person who is constantly "complaining" (bragging) about how BUSY they are at work because SOMEONE needs their important and valuable skills. the same people who are all going to tulum and medellin to take the same fucking photos for instagram. the same people watching SNL, discussing the efficacy of advertisements, talking about new yorker articles at pop-up museum shows after eating lebanese small plates and thinking they're counter-culture. they've never picked up a book because they have an internal urge to learn something or experience something.

they are materialistic culture vultures.

Is humor in literature evidence of genius?

>>9515191
>nothing happens
this meme

>pseudo intellectual
>rhetoricians
ha

watch this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bb7FJoiPuBk

>>9475034
stud

>>9465905
why's his dialogue so GOOD, lads

>>9458896

>>9442193

>how to win friends and influence people

/fit/ i don't think this board merger is going to work after all

>>9253640

And but so then after a long day of reading he had some bourbon. WYD, faggots?
>inb4 not a /lit/ thread
Oh well.

>Works you've read
>Favorite work (and why)
>Where you rank him

>>9014324
Whose to say she read it and didn't just buy it for meme points? Just like 50% of this board.

delillo>pynchon

>>8891407
I'd rather the art take precedence than my own personality which many "artists" and media outlets rely on. Not everyone likes Cave and thats fine, I enjoy a lot of varying musicians. I've only ever been in one fight in my life, and I even apologised to the guy I punched out.


>>8891409
I like you too anon :3 Read the abridged (unless you want 3,300 pages of headache) Rising Up and Rising Down by William t. Vollmann. Really opened my eyes.

>>8794252
william gaddis