/lit/ - Literature

What are some good counter-arguments when someone says I shouldn't joke about a topic as it might offend someone?

I only have a few friends who read for pleasure.
Father reads more non-fiction/history than anyone I know
Doesn't touch fiction though
>"Why read fiction, I have my own imagination"

>>1978410
Here we go with the jew shit again. OK retard. Explain yourself. I'll brew me some coffee.

>he bumps after 1 minute on night-time /lit/
>he thinks we're going to do his homework for him

look, joyce spent 17 years writing it. if he thought it was worth the effort to spend two decades conveying all of human history through the subconscious in his puzzlespeak, then it's worth it for you to spend two months.

that's how long I took. did i get it? no. what's it about? i don't know. but my brain has never been so fucking stoned; i've never loved prose so much; and i can literally not stop thinking about shem, shaun, izzy, alpy, hce, butt and taff, the porters, the 29 rainbow girls, abcd-mamalujo, Tristan and Isolde, night lessons, Jaun, Yaun, .... it goes aun and aun and aun.

I disagree with op's ultimatum but i really can't recommend FW enough to everyone on this board

[trying not to be a joyce-fag right now, even though some people will call you a pretentious fuck if you admit that you read ulysses.]
[joyce fag starts rambling - the puzzles are there on purpose to make it more fun and complex. most of the novel was written by the 1930s; and he spent a decade complicating the language and adding echoes and puzzles. some people will always think that's invalid in literature; i disagree.] [and the first drafts are super fucking complicated even before the dreamspeak.]
[call it masturbation if you wish, but seriously if you think writing a book like this is jerking yourself off for your own pleasure, what art isn't masturbation? what literature isn't? how is any human activity not masturbation? don't throw around dismissals with implications you don't comprehend]

>>1166571
>Margaret Atwood
>fucking fantastic author