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1571348 No.1571348 [Reply] [Original]

You now realize that literary geniuses like e.e. cummings and James Joyce would have gotten an F- in English class

You now realize that many people who earn an A in all their English classes and study English in college are never going to get published

How does this make you feel?

>pic related, mfw you pricks are thrown into a suicidal despair upon realizing this

>> No.1571360

your entire premise is merely speculation, so, gtfo

>> No.1571363

the majority are idiots, cool.

but remember according to d&e you're degenerate if you dont like the most popular stuff.

>> No.1571376

Homedogslice Joyce got A's all over English he got literary criticism published at age 21. He was an English genius, and his analysis of other writing is what led to his technical genius when he began writing in his own right.

>> No.1571378

>>1571376
He died poor.

>> No.1571386

But I failled English and still did not get published.

>> No.1571391

>>1571378
Yeah, that's cause he was about as successful at keeping money as a lighter and gasoline. But that wasn't the argument OP was making; he was saying that geniuses woulda gotten crappy English grades, and his example of Joyce is dead wrong

>> No.1571393

That is false. Most famous (not best-selling) writers are usually very good at the academic subject of English. Many write criticism and teach at universities.

>> No.1571410 [DELETED] 

I failed English Comp because:

1. The teacher couldn't read my handwriting on essay assignments

2. I turned in my typed papers unstapled, and the teacher wouldn't accept my keeping them together with paper clips

3. The teacher wanted me not to use words more than two syllables long


>FEELS BAD MAN

>> No.1571418

>>1571410
Hey man, learning to follow rules is important, even arbitrary ones. School is about learning rules so that when you get out you can properly, cleanly, and effectively break them

>> No.1571428

>>1571393
For example, Nabokov, who, in my opinion, is more important for his criticism than his actual literature.

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1571435

I'm not an author and do not expect to be. I just want my degrees in English, because other subjects are boring.

>> No.1571444

>>1571435

Enjoy not having a job after college.

>> No.1571456

>>1571435
you have horrible taste in men

well boys is a better term

>> No.1571457

oh wow baby's first troll

criticism/essay writing /=/ experimental fiction

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1571459

You rang, OP?

>> No.1571462

>>1571459

>English

Borges was from South America and spoke Spanish, that doesn't count.

>> No.1571466

Why is Jonathan Safran Foer telling me this, he went to Princeton

>> No.1571471

>>1571466

Hahaha you don't even know who that is in the pic, do you?

ps you really don't want to

>> No.1571483

>>1571459
>>1571462
> yfw you realize that Borges brilliantly fuses criticism and fiction and all you can do is identify continents on a map.

>> No.1571484

>>1571471
trollan

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>>1571483
>he thinks I can keep Asia and South America straight!

>> No.1571508

i don't care.

>> No.1571518

>>1571508
fuck you I care

>> No.1571541 [DELETED] 

Huh, and here was I thinking the fact that academic study of literature is mental masturbation for its own sake was common knowledge by now.

Shows what I know, I guess.

>> No.1571574

DAMN you actually have the balls to capitalize the failing grade that cummings probably got in english. anyways fuck everything

>> No.1571722

I've been published; and, while I received an A in English in college, I subsequently dropped out for no good reason.

I somehow decided that losing my full-ride scholarship was worth the risk of finally finding a semblance of happiness. I was happy for a while, but now I find myself wanting to leave again. I'm sick of being stuck.

Just because you get published doesn't mean you make much money. You get an even less amount of people that actually care about your shit.

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>>1571444
I sure will enjoy it!

>>1571456
And what kind of men/boys should I have taste in, oh mighty gay overlord?

>> No.1571809

Yeah, OP, I'm sure Joyce got F's in English.

Dubliners is completely readable. He did everything he could with the (then) current rules of grammar before he started to break them.

Unless you're a troll, in which case 4/10 you got me to respond.

>> No.1571825

This is pretty good.

8/10