/lit/ - Literature

>>8338893

>>6832123
>how has that imaginary professor anything to do with this thread ?
has a lot to do with Bloom, what I was talking about
>offended
never offended, and there's nothing wrong with dismissing someone aslong as you dismiss that someone for good reason.
Second most well known literary critic alive? Probably relevant.
Opinion of someone as unreliable as N.? Well, it's unreliable.
>that's all your post boils down to
it boils down to an argument about Nabokov's opinion, the point of the thread and clearly the point of the post. I mentioned Bloom as an aside and then you drew in on him because you're interested in opinions, and you're doing a mediocre job at reflecting.
>your listing "10 descriptions of Dostoevsky which are all valid" without even bothering to parse them into actual descriptions
Wow. That's Nabokovs description from within the thread, broken into lines so the descriptors are too the left, it was easier to do than copying them all out individually and a more honest quote. That you didn't even notice that is pretty telling IMO.
> too much blatant cheekiness
I am a very cheeky lad

> as if the category has any meaningful existence
muh literariness don't real
>besides the name of a literary publishing venue was also quite laughable
completely untrue, belles letres is a categorical synonym for fine writing and quite relevant as such
>lecturing me on arguing
I was "lecturing" on reading, not being insecure being an important part of it

>I never said that
you likened as such

>meme witticisms
They're Nabokovs writings, not the musings of one of your friends

>those are merely opinions and you could find more authority on my sides than on yours
so how does that make your opinion more valid than mine when you recognize that opinions have no validity without argument?
>the quote is merely a jab cut out to be offensive
Nope, he's giving good descriptions of Dosto's writing
>*why you feel so offended.
I'm not, that's why
>You're right
yah I am
>it's not simply a criticism, it's a rhetorical molotov cocktail
he's got ten criticisms that range from the political to the moral and aesthetic, no idea what your problem is

>>6769635
I bet you were a bona fide fedora tipper 10 years ago, and now the fickleness of christ posting has seriously convinced you that atheism, apart from the total intellectual failure of new atheism entirely, somehow is not the obviously correct position
pathetic

>>6599918
iktf