/lit/ - Literature

>>10636840
books are not simply to gain knowledge.
they are to experience immersion in a secondary world. they are entertainment. you can re-read a book and experience at least a fraction (or perhaps more than a fraction) of the original entertainment you sucked off the author for.

rereading can even be academically useful in that you will be more familiar with the work and make better arguments about it.

>>9292563
vigorous wanking by people who were too smart for their own good.

>>8614459
how can it be true? everything is a simulation.

>>7853340
there is no alternative. he's lamenting the inevitable. you can't turn back the clock - once mass media was invented we were set on our path to today and tomorrow.

>>6588709
by reading it aren't you reviving the aesthetic?

>>6589025
disagree. the science fiction aspects of infinite jest clearly push it over to vaporwave.

>>6588670
if anyone was to write the "great vaporwave novel" it would probably be tao lin. or me. i've got some short stories that touch on the vaporware genre but i havent had anything longer focus on it. its possible that vaporwave as a genre is best represented by poetry.