/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.2891694]

Hey /lit/, what's the cutest work of literature you've ever read?

Is it cuter than this gif?

If not, how is literature a superior medium to animation if it can't express such a basic quality as cuteness?

[Anonymous No.2891699]

Ophelia is cuter than that shit. Is that supposed to pass for moe nowadays?

[Anonymous No.2891702]

>>2891699
I love how /lit/ has the same hipster attitude towards everything. Even stuff that's not literature, like anime.

[Anonymous No.2891704]

>>2891702
>hipster
>predominantly talk about the main canonical works of the 20th century
Pick one.

[Anonymous No.2891705]

>>2891699
but anon, Ophelia was a hysterical bitch, and the MC of that play was a complete beta

I mean, I can understand if you like tsunderes, but Hamlet is a really terrible, really uncute love story

[Anonymous No.2891708]

because unlike anime, literature isn't primarily for pedophiles

[Anonymous No.2891710]

>>2891702
Also, Lain is the cutest character in the history of everything.

[Anonymous No.2891714]

>>2891705
Hysteria triggers a daddy instinct in me that OP's pic doesn't. Does /a/ still use the beta MC argument with a straight face by the way? That always got me.

[Anonymous No.2891720]

>>2891708
Lolita

[Anonymous No.2891723]

>>2891714
yep, all those embarrassing beta MCs who refuse to grasp what they already hold in their hands

[Anonymous No.2891725]

>>2891720
>scathing criticism of paedophilia
>for paedophiles

[Anonymous No.2891726]

>>2891723
Of course, characters should be perfect like in my fanfiction.

[Anonymous No.2891732]

>>2891726
"Hey MC, I think it's time we did something lewd."

"L-l-l-lewd?"

[Anonymous No.2891739]

>>2891725
>liberal propaganda to temper a transgressive text

think for yourself next time anon!

[Anonymous No.2891740]

>>2891704
Hipsters love classical music. /lit/ hates Tao Lin.

Everything seems to match so far. Though I'm sure you can deconstruct it somewhere down the line, but that applies to pretty much anything it seems.

[Anonymous No.2891741]

>>2891732
It's a hyperbolic examination of the inherent shame in the japanese male psyche. To be serious, blame eva (where it was done marvellously, I might add). It's overdone, I'll admit.

[Anonymous No.2891742]

I Am a Cat by Soseki.

[Anonymous No.2891749]

>>2891740
>/lit/ hates hipster lit
>/lit/ is full of hipsters
I'm not sure I quite follow your reasoning.

And hipsters like lots of music. Some like Lil' B, some like Animal Collective. You might as well go for an argumentum ad hitler.

[Anonymous No.2891783]

>>2891749
>Hipsters hate hipsters (proof: http://informationenvironments.academia.edu/AlexaGouldKavet/Papers/461532/The_Demise_of_the_Subcultu
ral_Identity_Towards_a_Postmodern_Theory_of_The_Hipster_and_Hipster_Style)

And to explain my reasoning: You claimed /lit/ is not an example of hipster culture because it primarily discusses canonical works of the 20th century. This was I imagine compared to the fact that hipsters generally avoid popular culture. However, the popular culture that hipsters avoid is stuff like pop music or, yes, overhyped contemporary literature like Tao Lin. The canonical music of the 20th century is well within the domain of hipster taste. So in your original comment, you failed to make a distinction between popular and influential. This might not be written properly, but I feel that what I'm trying to say (despite how it may come out in my writing) is coherent so we can discuss this further if you want.

[Anonymous No.2891794]

>>2891783
If you want to discuss it properly, hit me with a definition of hipster. There's no point talking through one another.

[Anonymous No.2891797]

>>2891740
>Hipsters love classical music

No. People who are intelligent like classical music, they like lots of other genres of music also. It doesn't make you a hipster for appreciating music.

[Anonymous No.2891802]

>>2891797
>No. People who are intelligent like classical music, they like lots of other genres of music also. It doesn't make you a hipster for appreciating music.

"Hipsters love classical music" is not equivalent to the statement "all people who like classical music are hipsters." Nothing of what you said contradicts the statement that hipsters love classical music.

[Anonymous No.2891805]

>>2891797
You're right it doesn't. My point was it doesn't cancel out being a hipster either. And the same goes for appreciating the western canon of literature.

[Anonymous No.2891808]

>>2891805
As the guy who said that, I'll admit I'm wrong. I don't feel hipster describes /lit/, however.

If you want to get prescriptive then it definitely doesn't apply to /lit/:
>A person who follows the latest trends and fashions

[Anonymous No.2891818]

>>2891783
You can't really give a definition of hipster anymore than you can with any (sub)culture. You have to use cable-threads of observation to get a general understanding.

[Anonymous No.2891820]

>>2891808
hipster doesn't describe anyone, anymore. it's an empty term these days.

you can still roughly identify the social subgroup that the term originally referred to, but the term is just about useless

[Anonymous No.2891828]

>>2891802
lol someone's studied formal logic.

PS: OP you bring up a really interesting point about what literature can convey as a medium. I'd like to see more discussion about it.

[Anonymous No.2891858]

I finished "Kneller's Happy Campers" earlier today, it made me d'aww

[Anonymous No.2891885]

>>2891702
"Hipster" is a term co-opted for use as a meaningless pejorative in order to vaguely call someone else's authenticity into question and, by extension, claim authenticity for yourself. It serves no conversational function and imparts absolutely no information whatsoever, save for indicating the opinions and preferences of the speaker. Meanwhile, a market-myth has sprung up around the term, as well as a cultural bogeyman consisting of elusive 20-somethings who wear certain clothes , listen to certain music, and act a certain way. You can't define what "that kind of behavior or fashion or lifestyle" actually is, nor will you ever be able to. That's because you don't use the term, "hipster" to describe an actual group of people, but only to describe a fictional stereotype that is an outlet for literally anything that may annoy you. The twist (or irony as you may like to call it), of course, is that if it weren't you your own insecurities, nothing that a so called "hipster" could do or wear would ever affect you emotionally. But you are insecure about your own authenticity - "Do I wear what I wear because I want to? DO I listen to my music because I truly like it? I'm certainly not like one of those filthy hipsters!" - so you project those feelings in statements such as this one. Suffice it to say, no one self-identifies as a hipster; the term is applied to an other, to separate the authentic us from the inauthentic, "ironic" them."Hipster" is a meaningless word that does nothing but telegraph others about your personal insecurity.

[Anonymous No.2891901]

this thread needsa be put down

[Anonymous No.2891939]

>>2891739
You've never read anything else by Nabokov, have you?

[Anonymous No.2891975]

So wait is anyone actually going to talk about the topic?

I... I thought Clarisse McClellan was pretty cute
my first waifu
she looks pretty ghey in the films tho

[Anonymous No.2891979]

>>2891939
it's a troll, ignore it

[Anonymous No.2893464]

That .gif isn't even cute.

[Anonymous No.2893515]

>>2891725
You haven't read Lolita, have you?

[Anonymous No.2893548]

>>2891725

'Death in Venice' too. 'Naked Lunch' has plenty of child prostitution, because, you know, some Moroccan kid has got to eat. Jean Genet occasionally indulges in pederastic fantasies and Thomas Pynchon has paedophiles and perverts everywhere.

And that's because a shitload more people are paedophiles than you think.

[Anonymous No.2893560]

>>2891885

Well said!

[Anonymous No.2893571]

>>2893515
>make your lead character a humongous faggot
>ridicule him in every possible way
Nah, it's clearly a love song to paedophilia.

[Anonymous No.2893575]

This book should be required reading for all children.

[Anonymous No.2893651]

I think the cutest book I've read is microserfs by Douglas Coupland.

[Anonymous No.2893675]

I eat a baby every time that most disgusting and painful emotion - cuteness - begins to bubble up from the depths of my dying heart.