/lit/ - Literature

Is it just me, or has /lit/ become completely overrun in the past few months? The threads are so garbage I don't even have the energy to shitpost.
Half the threads are bait, or some political garbage for people to get triggered on. The other half is freshmen and high school dropouts asking retarded questions. There are more threads started by somebody finding a funny image on twitter than threads about literature, every tenth OP is a pepe, every fifth is a meme.

Hey, janitors? Fucking purge this entire board, kick out every off-topic sperg.

Cringe. Moby-Dick was genre fiction before genre fiction was even a thing, escapism and power/intelligence fantasy for brainlets.

It's badly written, the author clearly couldn't decide if he was writing a connected or a collected story. The whole thing is at times a mess; full of bad rhetoric, involved syntax, stilted sentiment and incoherent English. While sometimes good, the author has us endure a lot of carelessness and bad taste in his writing, as he is either unable to learn or disdainful of the craft of an artist. Also being an euphoric atheist against organised religion doesn't help.

Worst of all Melville is a master of making you think he's saying something profound, when in reality he's just hanging vague, idea shaped hints around the poor whale. It's clear that he's read up, but also clear that it's all just for show in the annoying pseud fashion. When you read him you might feel like you're thinking, like you're about to discover something important and profound; when in reality there is nothing.

Melville never writes naturally. His sentiment is forced, his wit is forced, and his enthusiasm is forced. It's hard to say what was the real intention of the author, but if you compare the first third of the book with the last, it's clear it's never even been carried out. There is a reason it didn't sell at all, and it should have remained forgotten.

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