/lit/ - Literature

>>9524376

——Well *fidgets with glasses* Charlie I think this kind of, ahm, almost proto-lynchian satire if that makes any sense to anyone, or say fantasia on...I don't regard it as a joke (except as a—these are air quotes—"metafictional" one), but as a sort of fabulistic send-up and satire of this, ahm, '60s-era, Nixon-era atmosphere of paranoia and *winces* also—and here I hesitate to, well, I'm sensing a paradox—with regard t-t-to say, which I haven't seen in, ahm, Western Europe, this phenomenon *wipes forehead*am I making sense?—where media falls into this trap of uh uh uh of ironizing contemporary existential and *winces* psychosexual issues and..., well and and I know Wittgenstein said the most serious, uh ahm*touches face*issues and problems could only be discussed in the form of jokes *skin flushes* but in ironizing they devalue them almost in this sort of abstract neural ahm interior way and uh uh well I am just having this will be cut right? None of this is making sense I, well I—

>you're in DFW's class
>he hands out graded papers
>D-
>he notes: Your paper was disturbingly ironic and insincere. Meet me after class.

What do?

>>8109650
Anywhere
Go to /r/books
just get the FUCK away before these autists poison your mind and you start reading meme shit man FUCK this place. NEVER read anything Greek

go read Kafka