/lit/ - Literature

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Oh Arthur, it rhymed!

this may be a personal flaw but i'm really not interested in reading fiction by a booktuber.

>>18051165
Unironically the book I'm most looking forward to

>>18051165
lmfao@that larp handwriting

I think he will try a lot more to have consistency. I have faith in the boy, and I’ll drink the brown to his success

>>18051165
>receveid
kill yourself

What book will this bump out of /lit/'s top 100?

>>18051165
I am genuinely looking forward to it.

Anybody actually read The Learned Disguise? I couldn't stomach it.

>>18051165
>spend two years working on a novel
>Name it L'Academie
Oh dear oh dear

“Thud!”

>>18051347
All of them

>>18051165
>banging my head agains the wall
>agains
NGMI chink cunt

>>18051407
No. Apparently he got his editor off of Fiver so I skipped it. I only want to make fun of Waldun's best efforts

>>18051407
I thought it was good. His prose is rough at parts, but when he's good... he's good.
>Walking along the edge of the river, I no longer saw those lovely pale leaves pass me like petals, as if some river flower were blooming oddly out of season (poetry appearing abruptly in my social prose); rather I took them to be elements of a threatening metaphor, because I had suddenly seen that the world was held together only by frost and by freezing, by contraction, that it's bowels contained huge compressors and ice-cold molds; so the place where I stood looking over a trivial Indiana landscape--snow freshly falling upon an otherwise turgid, uninteresting stream--was actually a point on the hazardous brink of Being. Consequently there appeared before me an emblem of all that was--all that was like a frozen fog--exhaust from the engines of entropy; and I saw in the whitened leaves floating by me an honesty normally missing from Nature's speech, because this adventitious coating threw open the heart of the Law: this scene of desolation--relieved only by the barren purity of the trees--this wedge was all there was; and then I understood that the soft lull of August water was but a blanket on a snowbank; the dust that a wave of wind would raise was merely the ash of a dry summer blizzard; the daffodils which would ring our Chinese elm were blooming spikes of ice, encased in green like a thug's gloves; there was just one season; and when the cottonwoods released their seeds, I would see smoke from the soul of the cold cross the river on the wind to snag in the hawthorns and perish in their grip like every love.

>>18051467
half of this is adjectives, what the fuck

>>18051457
I wonder how much I could sell my paper copy for online? Lol.

>>18051467
You think that's good?

Absolutely

>>18051467
I read this twice and I am filtered.

>>18051165
all that time reading but no time to put on some damn chapstick

>>18051165
Hopefully this one will come out on proper digital platforms so we can pirate it.

>>18051578
His lips are cracked from frenching your mom

>>18051585
hey waldun

>>18051583
https://bookmate.com/authors/mMEEKw8O
Gotta sign up for the free trail

I remember the story he wrote about being assaulted by a black guy, but it was before the stop asian hate stuff so a group of twitter wokies were trying to cancel. I don't plan on reading anything from him, but I wish him all the best.

>>18051165
I can't wait to read this culture vulture's next pretentious novel. I hope it suffers from a lack of real life experience and ego inflation as much as The Learned Disguise

>>18051467
Awful. Kys and waldun.

>>18051165
>French piss bread

>>18051165
>"Thud!"
>His penis hit the top of the dumpster. Flaccid but still easily 10" in length I knew that I was about to experience would be truly a life changing moment, like moving into my first apartment.
>Melbourne is different, there are cafe's every where and, behind each cafe, is a sex dumpster where a young intellectual can have his face pressed into a day old croissant while being analled by street poets.
>My book bag took some of the strains off my knees as I loosened my belt and slid my brown trousers down over my thighs.
>I took my glasses off as it was dark. He told me to leave them on.
>So, this is the life of a writer I thought as he entered me.

>>18051489
>>18051498
>>18051746
That wasnt waldun you literal fucking retards jesus christ you’re embarrassing yourselves

is waldun his pen name necause his guy looks a chou or zhang to me

>>18051165
All fields

RC is charting a bold new course for literature. He works in the dangerous, subversive, but eminently civil contemporary space defined by the Dark Academia movement.

His work The Learned Disguise examined the rippling Dionysian undercurrents that privately afflict those innocuous intellectuals of the world. Their muted styles and reserved temperaments concealing uncommon depths of intensity. His perceptions of the world, translated into his astonishing prose, have turned the literary world on its head. Editors and publishing execs that had previously touted the great Rupi Kaur as the golden child of North American letters have reportedly begun preparing to shift focus to RC.

As for L'academie, we can expect a full-throated masterpiece. Learned Disguise was his Portrait, this will be his Ulysses. Expect conventions to subverted. Expect rules to be flouted. RC is about to fulfill his destiny as l'enfant terrible of 21st century English lit and we are witness.

>>18051165
ban test

>>18051974
Kek

>>18051165
Being a published (not self published) author myself i'm torn between feeling some sort of fraternal good will towards him and on the other hand wanting him to fail badly.
Here's my question though: what the fuck does he have to write about?
He's all of what? 18? His entire life experience is living with his parents and going to school.
Go out and live a little first mate, get some raw material.

>>18051467

faggot lmao

>>18052975
I often sympathize with Waldun because how hard he tries but then I renember we're the same age and how I'd probably bully him and talk shit behind his back if we were on HS together. Dude is just larping as the next James Joyce and that is pretty funny to see. Everyone at our age has dreams I suppose, the other day I found my dad's old notebook with a bunch of (bad) country songs lyrics, at least Waldun has an audience who will most likely buy his stuff and cheer him up

>>18051974
Waldun wishes he was this good.

>>18052992
I find that emoji at the end insufferable. If i had an opportunity I'd hate fuck this twink

How old is this childe?

>>18051314
Based handwriting if you ask me. Won't read his book though

>>18051165
chapstick my nigga

He will never be F. Gardner.

>>18051165
"...are you still mad at that innocent mailman for ceasing your string of thoughts last week? Your ways are so solitary at times that I fear for your mental health."

Such a talented young man.

>>18051467
Kek

>>18051467
Are you still married to Martha?

>>18051467
ahhahahhaahhahahahhahha that is actually awful

>>18054111
>F(aggot) Gardner

fixed that for you

>>18051467
Does he not know what a full stop is? That whole thing is two sentences.

>>18051467
That was far too good to be Waldun: I don't even think he could resist letting a sentence go on for more than a dozen words. Anyways, it's lovely to see how many jumped in to say it was shit, at least >>18051555 was honest.

>>18051467
This isn't good. It reads like something written by a high schooler who's trying too hard to sound worldly... go figure. Give it another ten years, and he might realise why filling your prose with adjectives does not count as good writing.

>>18051165
COOOOOOMIIIINNNNNGGGGG

>>18051467
This isn't Waldun at all, though I still don't care for it. It's Gass.

>>18052469
I hate this. I know it's a parody post, but I still hate it. I hate that I read all of it and that there are people who genuinely think in this way. I hate it. I hate it. I am sorry, but I hate it. We're not supposed to hate; it isn't Christian. But I cannot help hating it. I hope to God that this child who calls himself Waldun grows up at some point. People need to grow up. To be this pretentious past the age of sixteen is... it's terribly wrong. I hate it.

>>18052975
>what the fuck does he have to write about?
Nothing. As you say, he hasn't experienced enough of life to provide any insight; he is also far too pampered.

>>18052469
kino

>>18054555
Most people grow out of these things after university and he probably will too. Moreover, I don't see this dark academia business going anywhere near mainstream in the future: it's already dieing off on Tumblr due to being non-inclusive or whatever. The real and worse future are Kaur and miss. I-don't-have-the-luxury-to-write-about-being-lost-in-a-wood Gorman.

>>18054632
>he real and worse future are Kaur and miss. I-don't-have-the-luxury-to-write-about-being-lost-in-a-wood Gorman.
True.

>>18054632
*dying, shit

>>18051467
and they say philosophy is just word salad.

Waldun is an idiot, but there are posters in this thread who are illegitimately dumber. Try looking in the mirror for once

>>18051424
w*ttpad sounding shit lmao

>when waldun starts his Ted K phase
look out ‘Stralia

>>18051165
>not even airpods

really nigga?

>>18055729
airpods are not dark academia enough

bump

L'Academie is about the education system in a dystopian future. Hopefully there will be some scifi elements

>>18057023
So that it becomes even more of a trainwreck

>>18051467
lmao surely that is not the actual text

>>18051467
/lit/ exposed as absolute pseuds shitting on Gass' prose

embarrassing

>>18054512
It's Gass, from The Tunnel. You got filtered.

>>18057194
why can't he just wait til he gets better at writing instead of publishing a novel at 19? Of course its going to fucking suck, Waldun isnt an enfant terrible and he has no life experience in order to be a compelling storyteller. Are you reading this, Waldun? Go live your live, fall in love and forget this author thing for a while. Also, aban this voluntary celibate thing you have going on, you're 19, if you dont slay some prime 19 year old pussy now you're gonna regret it forever

>>18051974
lmao this is why i come here

>>18057321
He's perfecting his craft

>>18051467
unspeakably based

Filtering half of lit through Gass in a Waldun thread. Also funny cause i imagine Kohler is what you get when self-absorbed Waldun types fester over decades and decades.

I love you anon (I was filtered)

>>18051467
Fucking hell, I was writing shit like this when I was 15. It screams of coddled high-schooler what with all the adjectives. I can't imagine someone writing this and being above the age of 17, I really can't.

4chan is the real dark academia

>>18051467
I loved that part. here's my favorite
>The future possibilities of my endeavors crystallized in my minds eye, but fell apart when I focused my gaze on their fractal nature. The years ahead of me began to rush by with a blur, tempered only by my thoughts of a new tomorrow. When I finally caught my breath, the realization dawned on me that it is not my tomorrow to imagine, but the tomorrow of millions who inhabit the same plane of reality as each other. Suddenly it became clear to me that yesterday's tomorrow's were simply the lost opportunities of today.

>>18058322
dogshit

>>18051467
What's the consensus so I know whether to bash it or not?

>>18051165
Why is this site constantly shilling this dude?

>>18058444
Shilling? Is that the right word for it?

>>18058477
shilling or hating it's all the same

>>18051467
based high iq post. i got filtered and started criticizing it before I checked the comments. it is poetic, even though i couldn't see the relation between the metaphors and similies Gass uses.
>>18058199
kek, filtered
consult >>18057161 and >>18058152

>>18052469
I don't know about "masterpiece," but we can surely expect a "full-throated" work from /lit/'s very own, RC Waldun.

>>18051974
Erotic RC Waldun fanfic when?
He is too good of a target not to build an erotic literary universe around.

>>18058322
what the fuck does this mean

>>18057194
which discord is he in? links?

>>18051165
>rogue academic
I don't believe this guy knows what "rogue" means

>>18059102
French for Red.

>>18051165
how old is he? He looks 16

>>18059412
19/20
He was a High School senior in 2019.

>>18051165
>4 threads on Waldun
Jesus guys, just make a /Waldun General/ already

>>18059177
so he's a commie?

>>18059744
Waldun made all the threads too.
You just know it.

>>18058280
cyberpunk + dark academia = 4cahn

>>18051165
I'm from Melbourne and work in a bookshop in the inner east. I wanna meet this kid if only to satisfy a curiosity

>>18060028
Kys cunt. You ruined this shithole country.