/lit/ - Literature

Any of you read this guy’s Scifi fanfic?

>>17537753
I actually had to read Flight to Lucifer for a fantasy course I took in college. The day we were scheduled to discuss it the professor's first question was, 'OK, now, how is Bloom's novel different from the fantasy novels what we've read so far?' A bunch of people raised their hand and answered but none of them seemed to be saying what the professor had in mind. He kept saying, 'Yeah, what else?' Finally nobody had anything to say and he waited a few seconds before saying, 'Well, let me phrase it another way. Was there something in Bloom's novel that eluded you?' Silence. 'Something, perhaps, that you would have liked to see, but didn't? Something that was either absent, or hard to detect?' Ah, of course! My hand shot up. 'Yes, Anon.' 'Talent,' I said, 'There was no discernible talent!' The professor and I broke out into hysterical laughter. 'You couldn't discern any talent!' 'None!' he shouted and started rolling around on his desk like a turtle on its back. My face was red and I was wiping away tears. We laughed for about five minutes before it died down to nothing but brief aftershocks of giggles. 'Oh man,' he said. 'Good lord. All right. Remember to read the rest of it for Tuesday, and (shouting over everyone packing up) see if you can discern any talent!' And he pointed at me. 'This guy,' he said. 'Woo.'

>>17537906
LOL

>>17537906
I've never read this copypasta before but I really, really like it.

>>17537906
GBS said it best: ‘Those who can, do; those who can’t, teach.’

>>17537724
Remember pre-2017 /lit/ back when this fella was spammed as much as Jordan Peterson is today

>>17537906
topkek

>>17537906
Incredible

>>17537931
remember Stirner?

>>17537906
>a fantasy course I took in college
Reminder people are willing to go into debt for this. The middle class just boggles my fucking mind.

Why was he so mad at DFW? Certainly he had more "talent" than Roth.

>>17537906
Based professor

>>17538828
>Fuck education
>Fuck art
>Fuck learning
Back to your cage working class wagie

>>17539357
>he thinks academic institutions hold any right to monopolize truth and knowledge
>has the gall to engage in pointless frivolous degrees because his parents' gave him the opportunity to do so
ngmi

(((Bloom)))

>>17537906
Based

>>17539617

>>17539573
proles mad x100

>>17540240
>collegecuck needs to steal NEET memes

>>17537724
shakespeare was such an incredible writer

>>17540422
you can't like steal memes maaan

>>17537906

>>17540511
Memes are like the mind at the soul: immortal and in inviolable. Only the Big G knows where either will be placed in the grand scheme.

>>17540240
>I was born to money and in this I believe
But with the shades of Tartarus you shall grieve.

>>17539357
implying you can't educate yourself on such matter in the age of the internet

>>17539230
He called his book turgid notes on artistic influenza and Bloom seethed for 21 years over that.