/lit/ - Literature

>>12909319
>Oh-gus-tyne

Why am I wasting time on this shithole of a website when I could be writing the next bestseller as we speak?

>>12748883
Good. I would not want to teach an entitled and egotistical brat. I'd rather be teaching good-natured kids who are genuinely interested in learning and aren't afraid to put in the work to do it. I wouldn't be spoon-feeding you my beliefs. Instead, I would be challenging you to come up with your own interpretations. If you can't handle it, you don't deserve an education.

Am I truly a "joyless, soulless, and hardstuck functionary" because I think that it's only natural for somebody to KNOW something about a subject that they're passionate about? With students who have a thirst for knowledge, you would never have to deal with this problem. Such students are already voracious readers and often come into these programs with a vast repertoire of knowledge. They only need guidance here and there to mature as intellectuals, except in special cases where the supervisor has much to learn from the student. In any case, there is no resistance to learning, unlike in the Walker case. If he did not want to read literature, he should not have entered a PhD program for literature. If Lomax wanted to take in a charity case to serve as a proxy for his own beliefs, he could have done it in his spare time, or better yet, just written his thesis under his own name.

Besides, who said that Stoner had no passion for literature? Did you forget about the passages where he first came to love it under the most unlikely of circumstances? How disappointed he was when he realized he wasn't able to communicate his love for literature until he found his stride later in life? Did you gloss over Stoner's passionate and lucid lecture on medieval rhetoric, only broken by Walker's noisy and callous late arrival? Despite Stoner going out of his way to save Walker's PhD program by allowing him into his full class, Walker did not even do the bare minimum to participate in the class. Instead, he had the gall to repeatedly disrupt the class and even insult his other students for the crime of wanting to learn about a fascinating subject.

If I came across somebody like Walker, I would strangle him. I wouldn't care if he was pretty, ugly, strong, crippled, whatever. He is a posturing pseud of the worst kind who drags down everyone around him.

>>12728127
>cuck fantasy about a nigger fucking the protagonist's love interest
Bravo, Anglos.

>>12713447
>>12713937
>Bob Dylan

>pre-2000s writer/character
>"he's an incel!" edit: thanks for the gold kind stranger!

>>12708809
>trusting courts over the facts of mutations, drift, and lineage
>science is revisionism

>>12693082
>Jonathan Franzen

>Ha-ha-ha you'll never be [random thing]!
>Well, [personal argument]
>C O P E lmao
The cancer of /lit/

>>12669360
>it gets good after 4 books

>>12657853
>>12657877
>>12657922
cringe

>>12555572
>money bag
underage b&

>A tour de force

hitherto

I'm not a daughter I was born a male I am a son.

>>10495005
>mom only reads 50 Shades of Grey