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1397835 No.1397835 [Reply] [Original]

When will those backwards yokels in Britan get with the times?

>> No.1397844

unsuccessful troll is hideously unsuccessful.

This board needs better tripfags.

>> No.1397850

d&p pls go

>> No.1397871

Deep&Edgy, post your dick than i might get interested in you.

>> No.1397868
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>>1397844
>>1397850
>asspained gimp Britishers detected
>mfw the two paradigmatic writers in contemporary british literature are Terry Pratchett and J. K. Rowling

>> No.1397875

>>1397868
As opposed to what? Tao Lin?

Sorry, Tripfag. We all lose this round.

>> No.1397876

HURR DURR

>> No.1397880

>>1397875
Don Delillo, Paul Auster, Jonathan Franzen, David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Safran Foer, Brett Easton Ellis i could go on

>> No.1397887

>>1397880
I think all those writers suck.

WHATCHOO GONNA DOOOOO ABOUT ITTTT. CAN YOU DEAL WITH THIS?

>> No.1397890

>>1397887
Have you even read any of them?

>> No.1397892

>Britan
>tan

derp

>> No.1397893
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>>1397887
You probably look like this IRL

>> No.1397898

>>1397890
have you ever herped so hard you've derped?

>> No.1397903

But what about Alasdair Gray and Iain Banks?

>> No.1397904

>>1397880
You forgot the two best ones, Philip Roth and Cormac McCarthy. HATERS GONNA HATE THOUGH.

>> No.1397907

How's the new meds going D&E?

>> No.1397913

>>1397898
Nope. But you didn't answer my question.

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>>1397893
More like this. I'm an Amurikan Citizen. I have rights. I want to speak to the Consulate.

>> No.1397920
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>>1397917
I have a brain, thank you very much.

>> No.1397924

>>1397913
Sorry. I don't read books by amurikans. I wipe my ass with your New Yorker.

>> No.1397930

>>1397917
>mfw imperialist ideology at work

>>1397903
>alasdair gray
>iain banks
>scottish
lmao 2imperialist!!!

>> No.1397934
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1397934

FOR THE LAST TIME, BRITFAGS. STOP THROWING THESE THINGS OUT OF YOUR FUCKING CAR WINDOWS.

>> No.1397935

>>1397924
It's not "mine," I'm British. I just don't see why you have to hate American authors just because you aren't American.

>> No.1397936

d&e i thought you were british!

>> No.1397941

>>1397930
Britain is the island. It includes Scotland.

But, yeah, how are the new meds going?

>> No.1397945

>>1397930
I'm a Marxist.
>>1397935
I don't think you are British. also I am American.

>> No.1397956

>>1397945
I am British, and Paul Auster and Don Delillo happen to be two of my favorite authors. Which is why I was asking you if you've even read them before just saying you hate everything American.

>> No.1397965

AMERICA FUCK YEAH!

Thomas Pynchon
Don Delillo
Jay Wright
Mark Strand
John Ashbery
Philip Roth
Cormac McCarthy
Denis Johnson
William Kennedy
David Foster Wallace
Paul Auster
August Wilson
Toni Morrison

>> No.1397966

>>1397945
>thinks what I am talking about has anything to do with marxism, hears the word ideology and tries to save his as by spouting the word 'marxist'

>>1397941
I am not talking about landmasses tha's just stupid, l2infer

>> No.1397972

>>1397956
So let me get this straight -
If he doesn't read your favourite authors, he must be an idiot, right?

I don't agree with him or anything. He's pretty fucking stupid, and probably trolling you. But still.

Also to the troll: WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA.

>> No.1397973

Nationalism is one of the most embarrassing things to watch.

>> No.1397977

>>1397972
I never said he was an idiot. But he did say he hates all of the authors listed, having never read a single one of them, which just doesn't make much sense to me.

>> No.1397979

>>1397973
lol@filthydecadence
enjoy your loss of values fag

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>>1397945
>I'm a Marxist

>> No.1397993

ITT: D&E's new meds don't agree with him.

>> No.1397996

>>1397972
Americans killed my family in Okinawa.

Also everyone calm the fuck down. I was trolling. I don't hate American authors. Your writers are cool too.

Actually. I'm more of a fan of American lit. I can't think of any Brit lit I like.

Hemingway is my favourite novelist. CAN WE BE FRIENDS NOW.

>> No.1397999

Has anybody ever done a social study on trolls? Like how we know they're just trying to piss us off, yet we still let ourselves be drawn into the argument anyway?

They are strange, strange beasts.

Also 0/10 LOLWHYYOUHATEBRITAIN?

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>mfw 31 posts in and not a single individual has contested my assertions on the basis of content or form, undoubtedly because of a lack of knowledge of theory

never change, /lit/

>> No.1398012

>>1397973
It's fun as hell, 4chan has taught me that. I use to not be a nationalist until a bunch of euro commie scum started attacking my country for mostly retarded reasons.

>> No.1398020

>>1398007
>implying you did not feed the troll.

Also what makes you think this Thread of Trolls ever had any value anyways?

Nobody takes you tripfags seriously. For good reason, too.

>> No.1398025

>>1398020
>Nobody takes you tripfags seriously. For good reason, too.
Yeah Tybrax and Brownbear have really been making it hard for us to be heard as equals these days, it's sad

>> No.1398040

>>1398025
*Yeah Tybrax, Brownbear, Mogwai, Isabelle Huppert, God Waitings, capsguy, Arcueid Brunested, John, Koroviev, Truman Capote, Fabulous, madamepsychosis, oblimo and co have really been making it hard for me to be heard as equal these days, it's sad

sorry for that, major mistake on my part

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>>1398025
Who?

>> No.1398048

>>1398040
You forgot about me ;-;

(read my books plz!)

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1398060

This is the concentration camp thread?

Line up tripfags, take a number.

>> No.1398074

>>1398060
This is not a thread about tripfags bro this is about the difference between contemporary British and American literature, keep ur petty predujices for your own thread

>> No.1398083

>>1398074
BECAUSE THIS IS DEEP AND EDGY'S AWESOME FUCK ENGLAND THREAD

GO GET YOUR OWN. IF YOU DONT AGREE WITH IT, FUCK YOU, TAO LIN!

>> No.1398094

>>1397965
don't forget
Denis Johnson
Tobias Wolff
Jim Shepard

>> No.1398109

I think maybe this is what happens to a nation when it colonizes a bunch of spear chucking idiot countries and can't be bothered holding on to them; maybe 50 - 100 years of working through it as apology and coming to terms with the Other in the culture before art can move on. K guys except something fresh from England in maybe 2100 I should think

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>mfw reading for entertainment's sake is such an unknown concept in the colonies they don't have popular, mainstream writers.

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mfw fuck you all im going to cuba

>> No.1398129

Deep&Edgy&NoIdeaAboutImmigrantLit

>> No.1398232

>>1398109
so blame them, or the shitty post-colonial lit responsible for their new conscience

lol england is just utterly sapped of artistry after winning for half a millenium

>> No.1398246

>>1398232
Their literary power has come up in concordance with their expanding land-mass, take away one and there it is.

>> No.1398272

lol, OP outed itself as a Brit troll by picking the family Jackson. Whoops!

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What could be considered contemporary American Literature?

Serious question. Dennis Cooper? Bret Easton Ellis? Jeffrey Eugenides?

>> No.1398292

>>1398284
>>anything written in the last seventy years.