/lit/ - Literature

>>21499029
Everything is getting dumbed down. Idiocracy is closer than ever.

Nice, is that your prose?

>>21499043
it's pretty close to my prose actually

If DFW was alive today he would write like this, example: his nigger chapter

>>21499044
I hope you're joking.

>>21499044
What is it about? Sade-ish sex scenes about gay households and chirurgical operation tables?

>>21499048
I don't think so.

>>21499029
Is that a Bukowski book?

>>21499029
Is this the new Celine translation?

>all fax and no printer

>>21499050
Yes. I'm not sure if I should publish. After reading Sade, although I liked it, I couldn't help but realize how much unrealized potential there was in his creative ideas. Just look at the things the modern era has to offer! I immediately wrote a scene where a gay doctor receives a trans woman that wants to have a "special" operation.

>>21499029
CHAT-GPT REWRITE HARRY POTTER IN THE FORM OF URBAN DICTIONARY!

Yes yes OP very clever.

>>21499029
>not a mere mention of based
bewildered

>>21499029
>He was a dummy thiccc (w/ three c's) man
fucking brilliant, not because i can obviously see there are three c's, but because they thought of the audiobook version in advance.

>>21499080
I don't know what that means.

>>21499029
>collapsed
that just means we're getting closer to the singularity

>>21499459
What singularity? Is there something you want to tell us, anon?

>>21499029
>literature has collapsed because of this one shitty facetious novelty book

>>21499165
Then you're probably the living analogy.

All fax... all facts... all the transmission inward of information

no printer... no substance... no mechanism to transfer the received information into anything

Semi-functionally drain dead

If someone said that phrase to me in person I would loose my shit. It is a great insult

>>21499029
"Literature" has existed for like 250 years max

Before that it was folk songs and legends which were honestly much better

>>21500177
Disastrous bait.

>>21499628
I'm a zoomer. "Fax no printer" was a common line like two years ago, and it was literally just a play on the word "facts."

>>21499029
This is a better example of how bad modern literature is.

>>21500219
As a boomer I thought it had something to do with only being able to give to others (faxing) without giving to yourself (printing).

>>21500730
Autism.

>>21500792
High INT
Low CHA

>>21500798
Your highly technical and niche allusions will not confound me, sir autist.

>forced to interact with zoomer angloids to bang women in their 20s
>a lot of them speak like OP's pic, in varying degrees
Thank god this cancer hasn't reached continental European zoomers.

>>21499029
>there is an entire generation that doesn't know about gizoogle
everyone bitching about these joke translations are a bane on this earth

>>21500930
What does girlbossing actually mean?

>>21501102
Nagging

>>21500243
Who the fuck is this embarrassing faggot or even the halliday they keep mentioning? It might be better not to know but at this point I'll take the risk.

>>21501105
I thought it's when they had their guy by the balls. Relationships today always end up that way; it's hilarious to see.

>>21500930
Fuck, does that mean I am old or young?
>Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) was a German philosopher and cultural critic whoz ass published intensively up in tha 1870s n' 1880s yo. He is hyped fo' uncompromisin criticizzlez of traditionizzle European moralitizzle n' religion, as well az of conventionizzle philosophical ideas and hood n' ballistical pietizzles associated wit modernity. Many of these criticizzlez rely on psychedelic diagnoses dat expose false consciousnizz infectin people’s received ideas; fo' that reason, he is often associated wit a crew of late modern thinkers (includin Marx n' Freud) whoz ass advanced a “hermeneutics of suspicion” against traditionizzle joints (see Foucault [1964] 1990, Ricoeur [1965] 1970, Leita 2004). Nietzsche also used his psychedelic analyses ta support original gangsta theories bout tha nature of tha self n' provocatizzle proposals suggestin freshly smoked up joints dat he thought would promote cultural renewal n' improve hood and psychedelic game by comparison ta game under tha traditionizzle joints he dissed.

>>21501129
My God

>>21500243
alas, the writer glutted themselves on the finest dishes and savored the taste of none of them, for e'en 'mongst the trash 'ponst that list there are some choice delicacies.

'Tis an error common 'mongst the unlearn'ed.

>>21501115
probably joe rogan.

>>21501135
>>21501136
The football player who almost died also proved just how much they're worshipped. The pit bull thing also.

It's so strange that the poorest class is regarded as the highest. Jot even in Plato's time were democracies that severe. What we have now much more resembles a tyranny where the system itself is the tyrant and everyone's a slave.

>>21500219
Nope. You're a dullard and your friends all sniffed so much glue their eyes don't open any more.

The inclusion of "all" completely changes the phrase

>>21501152
>The pit bull thing
?

This is like those threads in Stormfront in which they imitated black people.

>>21501186
Pit bulls are the blacks of dogs because they kill people and thus are the most useless dogs. Being marginalized is worshipped today.

I think its because everyone's a slave and so they need some respite and they get it by thinking there are people worse off than them. Which is false.

>>21500243
where is the part where he realizes he spent his life on dumb shit?

>>21501129
lmao

>>21501115
The author is Ernest Cline. He also writes poetry.

This sort of stuff just comes across as a bad joke to me. I don't find anything particularly offensive about it and I don't think it's meant to be taken seriously. There are far greater examples of the dumbing down of literature than novelty humor "translations."
>>21500243
This is a far more heinous example of poisonous literary trends, I think.

>>21501961
>pulp never existed
Why do you people always act as if no one ever wrote anything bad before?

>>21499029
This is simply the ultimate conclusion of anglx culture

>>21499048
>If DFW was alive today
he'd kill himself all over again.

>>21499029
>they also had lowkey tea
can anyone translate for me?

>>21500243
>the other Indiana Jones films, from Kingdom of the Crystal Skull onward
He knew

>>21499515
>singularity
The singularity of suffering. Think Event Horizon. Where we're going we don't need lit, just blood.

>>21499029
Took me a moment to realize that's Harry Potter

>>21501115
I think he's talking about this guy

>>21501969
That's a reasonable rebuttal but the pulp that I've read has been more well written and more interesting than the example in the post I replied to. Plus, I've never read anything that amounts to name-dropping pop culture references, which is exactly what that excerpt is.

>>21499029
"This is a parody," he assured himself, secretly unsure of its status as satire. "No one would write like this in seriousness. Civilization hasn't collapsed that much." His neck itched.

>>21499628
>>21501182
It never stops being both hilarious and cringe whenever some old person overthinks slang/phrases that young people say in an attempt to seem "with it". Fucking lmao.

>>21499049
yesn't i'm not being unserious

>reading magazine from the 80s
>user submissions from bored housewives have higher literary quality than academic work today, a mere 40 years later
>literally a fucking sewing magazine
something really fucked society up and that something was the boomer generation. 10,000 years of human progress flushed down the john in one generation.

>>21503826
That would be the "greatest generation". The first generation to have the majority of people not live in multi generational homes

>>21503871
wild that they are allowed to name themselves that. someone needs to go in and edit the textbooks to "generation shart-pants".

>>21501219
the last page

>>21502094
They had potentially scandalous/gossip worthy things about them that they tried to keep hidden

>>21500243
Reminiscent of Joyce

>>21499029
If you don't see why this is funny then you don't belong here.

>>21503681
Don't be upset, anon. You are special and intuitive and everyone loves you for your naturally contributive self

>>21499115
Lmao the fact you think that's from 'urban dictionary' is hilarious. It's from tiktok, boomer

>>21504730
My dad uses TikTok. He's repeatedly told me I should check it out. Are you sure one's more for old people than the other?

>>21499080
Just like every classic book ever, a string of words that mean nothing, yet some ape says it's good so everybody else says it's good.

>>21499628
>no substance... no mechanism
That doesn't even track, nice try though, retard.

>>21505238
A printer is a mechanism to print


sage till you sort out the oxygen shortage