/lit/ - Literature

>>7110705
No, because after realizing some things are better than others, comes the realization that one can appreciate things partially.

>>7110705

No, it's just an added benefit.

>>7110705
There will always be someone ready to call you a snob if you don't like what they like, because some take that as a comment on their own character. The best you can do is keep an open mind, not take yourself too seriously (though do limit your exposure to absolute shit) and as Kipling said, "talk with crowds and keep your virtue/ Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch."

Pretentiousness is talking about something that doesn't have substance as if it does. If you're talking about how the The Very Hungry Catapillar is actually a metaphore for consumerism, then you're being pretentious, because it very likely isn't. If you're talking about the implications if Odysseus' piracy with regard to sympathy for the character, you're talking about a meaningful idea.

good taste is appreciating things that are worthwhile
snobbery is wasting your time complaining about things that are not

>>7110705
Good taste keeps his preference for himself unless asked explicitly and doesn't really care about the kind of literature others enjoy.

The two are entirely separate.
Pretence can occur in persons with "good" or "bad" taste.

>>7110738
>Good taste keeps his preference for himself unless asked explicitly and doesn't really care about the kind of literature others enjoy.

Rubbish! You claim that don't care that millions of others read/watch/eat utter tripe, while genius is ignored? I simply do not believe you.

>>7110705
>What separates good taste from pretentiousness?

Absolutely nothing, because good taste is pretense to a plebeian.

It depends on who is doing the talking, and who is doing the listening.

>>7110732
But doesn't talking about the raid of the Island of the Cicones to a person with a cursory understanding of the Odyssey come off as pretentious?

In over-analysis, you risk being like Prufrock. Yet, what's the line?

>>7110705
Pretenscious is attempting to one-up others by making annoying, rhetorical arguments which can only be called asinine. It's not about what you like but how you like it.

>>7110705

DEFINE "GOOD TASTE".

>>7111409
BUY A NEW "KEYBOARD" ALREADY.

>>7110705
yes

>>7110732
>If you're talking about how the The Very Hungry Catapillar is actually a metaphore for consumerism, then you're being pretentious, because it very likely isn't.
I actually have an allegory equating the caterpillar with phallo-oriented desire in modern culture