/lit/ - Literature

Could use another set of eyes. How are we looking?

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I sit upon a black-lacquered chaise lounge upon a beach of black sand where waves lap quiet at the shore amid faint calls from gulls nestled high above in crevices and outcrops from the rising coastal cliffs. The sea foams gently at the shallows and around a jut of sedimentary rock in sea-stained gradient from deep, dead-algal brown to the pocked and barnacled sharp greywacke edges above, where sparse-branched cypress post vigil, wind-cowed and geriatric—funereal—among the light and rocky undergrowth beneath. The sun diffuse through an overcast grey blanketing. Fog’s slow tumble in crag-clutching descent of the cliff’s jagged face.

I rise. The seawater’s cold bite at my ankles. I turn. The seabreeze chill at my nape. I walk. Coarse rough blacksand underfoot. I look. There’s a cabin ahead, tucked in a sharp cliffside couloir.

I pick through the driftwood and make my way towards it. Salt-bleached stairs too dead to muster splinters. A similar chaise, japanned and jetblack, out of place atop the greywhite knurling of the pitch-bound porch. Through the stains of salt and sediment on windows long-past started their glacial glissando there is, slightly visible, a finger of steam escaping its cast iron kettle. Two glazed-clay mugs beside, the tethers of teabags hanging loose over the rims. I knock on the door.

Come in!”

>no, you just don't understand... the poison is... it's GNOSTICISM, a-and Shakespeare is the... well, uh... he's the DEMIURGE!

CANON CANNOT CHANGE BECAUSE I LIVE IN THE PAST

CANON

WHITE WESTERN CULTURE PRODUCED LITERATURE THEREFORE THEY ARE CANON

>>15281909
CRITIQUE CAME FROM SCHOOL OF RESENTMENT THEREFORE YOU’RE FILTERED

>>15273129
>21st century novel
>woman is a figment of the author’s imagination

CANON EXISTS BECAUSE WHITE AUTHORS WROTE CLASSICS

NO WHITE AUTHORS MEANS CANON CANNOT EXIST

>>15254723
CANON SHOULD EXIST BECAUSE CONSTRUCTS ARE REAL

IF AUTHOR WAS MAN HE BELONGS IN THE CANON

AUTHOR WAS WHITE THEREFORE THEY BELONG TO THE CANON

>In 2003, Harold Bloom wrote in the Boston Globe that there were only four great American novelists alive and working: Don DeLillo, Cormac McCarthy, Thomas Pynchon, and Philip Roth.

Is this true? Does it really not get any better than these four?

>reads poetry in translation
>thinks he can judge Neruda, Pessoa or any other poet based on their clunky English translations
OHNONONONONONO HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA so this is the guy you look up to, /lit/??

>>11319214
They're not real, OP.

>>11229678

The world will weep when he finally croaks.

Bardolatry: the critic

What a faggot kek

Everything this fraudster says is a lie. How can he speak those words about the illiterate buffoon who served as front man for the Earl of Oxford? It is so laughable. Everyone should be laughing, but this arrogant beast actually dictates the profession; and if you go against him, you will be blacklisted, blackballed, watchlisted, etc. For god's sake the entire profession is a disgrace. The only thing this beast mentions in connection with the buffoon is the name Hamnet, which was probably given to the buffoon's baby but misspelled. Why doesn't the beast wonder how the buffoon came up with the idea of two trickster Jews named Rosencrantz and Guildenstern being deceived by Hamlet?

>>10480479
I'm the poster of
>>10480200
I think >>10480387
is right in that I might have been confused and misinterpreted this thread because of the reason outlined in >>10480259

Confusing thread all around. Was >>10480200
an attempted bane-post?

>>10445803
>Feynman
> Learning something from a 125 IQ STEM Brainlet

I feel bad for you, anon.

I have never heard of this man outside of /lit/. How is he "in charge" of the Western Canon, exactly? How much power does he have, when all the books he hates are bestsellers and the books he loves are irrelevant?