does anyone else do punctuation only readings?

[Anonymous No.11152892]

I just got done with a punctuation only reading of Moby Dick and I already feel the benefits. It has transformed my appreciation of the book tenfold by allowing me to put aside the surface level distraction that is the prose and instead zero in on the actual structure of the work, the framework that allows the prose to flourish.

I find that after several rereadings that a punctuation only reading is almost like the final boss of a work, without doing one I can't really claim to have understood the work.

[Anonymous No.11152904]

>inb4 entire thread of 'imma save dat image'

[Anonymous No.11152905]

just watch Neil de Grasse tyson videos and post on Reddit until the end of fucking time

Shit like this is produced by bourgeois think tanks to make the middle class complacent while the rich steals all their fucking money and uses literal slaves in the third world to make their trendy glitter iPhone cases.

Go sit in a park with your sweetie! (DON'T HAVE ONE, ALL SOCIAL RELATIONS HAVE DEGENERATED TO ORGYPORGY PROLEFEED NIGHTMARE)

Take Facebook tweet selfies of your stupid bullshit! (ENDLESSLY FOCUS ON DAY-TO-DAY PETTY SOCIALIZING AND LASCHIAN NARCISSISTIC GRANDSTANDING ON SOCIAL MEDIA, ALL HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS HAVE BEEN REDUCED TO LITERALLY PREHISTORICAL LEVELS OF HYPERGAMY IN A WHIRLING GYRE OF MEANINGLESS TINDER FACEFUCKING FOR THE SELECT FEW AND ELLIOT RODGER RESENTMENT FOR THE REST)

Consume trendy garbage and eat cool food :P!!!! (LITERALLY CHINESE NIGGER SLAVES MADE YOUR STUPID BULLSHIT "THINKGEEK.COM" BAUBLES AND DESIGNER STRETCHPANTS, IN ENDLESS WASTELANDS THAT RESEMBLE THE FACTORIES OF INDUSTRIAL ENGLAND MARX WROTE ABOUT IN COMPLETE HORROR)

These people are trying to thought control you into passively reclining and injecting low-effort Mythbusters reddit filth into your brain and ignoring the dull ache of meaninglessness and consumerist overstimulation from inhaling high fructose corn syrup and salt all fucking day

"Optimistic nihilism" is what rich faggots pay slightly less rich faggots to convince lumpenproles to think they're experiencing when they work in a cubicle for 45 years to finance a lifestyle of watching proles modify Nerf guns and design "man caves". Turn off the Youtube and develop some tastes and moral preferences taht an algorithm designed by Amazon can't predict and use to predict your entire life befoer you've evn lived it you peice of fucking shit

[Anonymous No.11152915]

I am sick and tired of this. Every day I come to /lit/, and every day there is at least one thread up with an OP image of an attractive woman dressed scantily and posing seductively. It's probably the same one or two people who do it honestly. Let me tell you something, you faggot pieces of shit who are doing this: you are the poster child for everything that is wrong in literature, art, and society as a whole today. You are incapable of coming up with anything creative, thought provoking, or of substance, and you lack even the smallest modicum of intelligence, so you use "style" and "flash" and pizazz in place of it and to draw attention to yourself, because that's the only way your SHIT "creation" and ideas would ever get seen by anyone. And before you say anything, this has NOTHING to do with the fact that I don't have a girlfriend. Anyway, I will be petitioning the owner of this website to ban your asses, so enjoy being able to post here while it lasts, because it's not going to last long, just like you that one time you convinced an obese girl to let you fuck her.

[Anonymous No.11152923]

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[Anonymous No.11152924]

>puts down a toni morrison novel
>cracks open the latest new yorker
>downloads an npr podcast
>goes to a free summer concert series
>gets hair cut at place that serves whiskey, like back when real men shaved with straight razors
>wears an untucked gingham shirt not over a t-shirt and over-polished menswear wingtips
>waits three hours for a text from the new small plates pop-up restaurant
>orders the second least-expensive malbec
>tries to watch all the oscar nominees each year
>cannot believe how good the new rap album is
>goes to a coffee tasting
>orders a kindle and hard copy of the latest kwame ngobongo novel but listens to it on audiobook during commute to his new marketing job
>goes to four spinning classes a week
>talks about how busy life as a creative is
>buys a groupon for hamilton
lives in new york city

[Anonymous No.11152934]

why bother reading someone who couldn't even live with himself. the only sincere moment in the life of David Foster wallace was when he kicked away the chair. the rest of his life was a lie, the new sincerity was a joke whose punchline was the creaking of a leather belt around the rafter.his literary career was a menagerie of self help lies told to keep his depression at bay. the audience pussy and drugs were the ghosts at that feast of hypocrisy. the depression was warranted because behind all the gimmicks and the self awareness and the bandannas was no discernible talent

[Anonymous No.11153464]

>>11152892
What is a puncuation on reading? You literally just read commas and stuff??

[Anonymous No.11153471]

>>11152892
>puncuation only reading?
what's that? is that the equivalent to watching movies without sound to get a better appreciation of the structure and rhythm? how does that work, OP?

[Anonymous No.11153477]

>>11152923
Masterpiece.

[Anonymous No.11153485]

Punctuation edition of Moby-Dick for those who want to try it:
https://pastebin.com/qphq4spU

[Anonymous No.11153486]

>>11153471
>>11153464
,??,.!
hahahahaha, have you really never done a punctuation only reading? Did you even go to school? You fucking imbecile, you pseud. These are the people I share a board with!

[Anonymous No.11153490]

>>11153485
It's a masterpiece, you can really feel Ahab's struggle with the divine in this version.

[Anonymous No.11153492]

>>11153485
OMG it changed the way I look at Moby-Dick! or should I say -

[Anonymous No.11153500]

>>11153486
be happy that i'm not a mod

[Anonymous No.11153506]

>>11153500
Sorry anon

[Anonymous No.11153525]

>>11152904
or this

[Anonymous No.11153554]

someone analyze a punctuation-only text, I'm curious what insight they would claim to get from it

[Anonymous No.11153855]

bump

[Anonymous No.11154551]

is this peak autism?

[Anonymous No.11155764]

>>11153486
I think you're just crazy dude. I've never EVER heard of such a thing - FROM ANYONE.

Sounds like a boring, fruitless way to spend your time. Punctuation is worthless without context.

[Anonymous No.11156576]

Punctuation-only readings are valuable of course, but a bit austere.

Personally I prefer NOUN-ONLY READINGS.

These strip away all those annoying, distracting, frenetic verbs and weak, womanly, cloying adjectives, and concentrate on the true STRUCTURE of the work. (We also get rid of proper nouns and pronouns, obviously.)

Reading a noun-only edition of a book is a strangely calming experience. Additionally, these editions are much shorter, which enables one to read as many as four great books a day.

Here's the openings of a few famous novels in noun-only format. Whoever identifies them first will win a Valuable Prize:

1) fence spaces flag fence grass tree flag

2) village gentlemen lance rack target horse greyhound

3) love chaplain love hospital pain liver jaundice

4) years money purse shore world spleen circulation

[Anonymous No.11158535]

Bump

[Anonymous No.11158558]

>>11154551
>>11155764
Hello newfriends, you should know that many of the things posted here are done so ironically, in fact I'd say that most posts are ironic to some degree!

[Anonymous No.11158580]

>>11158558

Don't listen to him, /lit/ is a Board Of Sincerity.

Also, here's a quick shill for my post two places up, on Noun-Only-Readings. That Valuable Prize remains unclaimed. I'm not saying it definitely is 1 BTC but I'm not denying it either.

[Anonymous No.11158606]

>All these anons not realizing that writers many times read like this in order to learn and improve their flow trough punctuation

I do it. When I stumble across a work with a very different style of punctuation I sometimes pay more attention to the way the writer punctuates than everything else.

[Anonymous No.11158612]

>>11156576
Is the first one sound and fury?

[Anonymous No.11158625]

>>11158612

Sehr gut.

[Anonymous No.11158638]

>>11158606

I have all Cormac McCarthy's works in punctuation-only format on a small piece of paper I keep in my wallet.

[Anonymous No.11158639]

>>11156576
I believe the fourth one is from an outdated and obselete edition of Moby-Punct, more popularly known as "Moby Dick".

[Anonymous No.11158696]

>>11158639

You are correct, sir. It's from the the "director's cut" of Moby Punct, now quite hard to find, and frankly not worth the extra 120 hours it runs.

[Anonymous No.11158788]

>>11156576
3 reminds me of catch 22

[Anonymous No.11158820]

Somebody run Moby-Dick though a part of speech classifier and release the noun-only edition.

[Anonymous No.11158865]

>>11158788

It reminds me of Catch-22 2.

[Anonymous No.11158926]

>>11156576
If 2) is not Don Quixote I'm going to eat my library. I have not even read the book.

[Anonymous No.11158968]

>>11158926

Well played. See, actually reading books is completely unnecessary. Browsing /lit/ gives you all the vital information by osmosis.