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5358222 No.5358222 [Reply] [Original]

>there are people on /lit/ RIGHT NOW that didn't read the canon by the age of 15

It's a prerequisite of being a good writer and if you haven't fulfilled it you will never ever be one.

>> No.5358226

>>5358222
this is a powerful post, you understand.

>> No.5358230

>implying bukowski had read the canon by the age of fifteen

>> No.5358234

>>5358222
>It's a prerequisite of being a good writer

So, Aeschylus was a terrible writer because he's never read Shakespeare?

/thread

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5358238

>>5358222
>>5358230
>>5358226

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>>5358238

>> No.5358247

>>5358222
What is the canon?

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>>5358222
This book is shit.

OP you are the worst.

>> No.5358249

>there are people who haven't read Prometheus Rising
You haven't thought until you read Robert Anton Wilson's works.

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>>5358247
The canon of the west. A selection of books of the highest quality. Only the truly enlightened and intelligent read them.

>> No.5358251

>>5358249
But Prometheus rising is a commercial piece of poo

>> No.5358257

>>5358251
Pleb

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>>5358247
Books like Infinite Jest and Game of Thrones.

>> No.5358268

>there are people on /lit/ RIGHT NOW that only read the canon as dictated by Harold Bloom and ignore tonnes of incredibly interesting but not canonically relevant literature

>> No.5358270

>>5358250
List pls?

regards
-a pleb

>> No.5358272

>>5358270
There you go friend :)

http://sonic.net/~rteeter/greatbks.html#west

>> No.5358275

>>5358268
>muh personal favourite books are on par with the greatest books western civilization have ever produced

fook off m8, no one cares about your pleb opinion

>> No.5358282

>>5358272
Hot damn, that's a lot of books

>tfw no massive inheritance to retire at 25 and live the literary lifestyle

>> No.5358359

Daily reminder that if you aren't published by the age of twenty five you're a shit writer

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hourly reminder that if you didn't lose your virginity before the age of 12 you are a complete loser with no WILL TO POWER

>> No.5358367

>>5358222
>the canon
You mean the Four Great Classical Novels, right? Yeah, I agree, what plebs.

>> No.5358372

>>5358275
> Harold Bloom is the greatest book western civilization has ever produced
You might want to think over that again, tard.

>> No.5358377

Oh fuck /lit/ thinks I'm cool.

>> No.5358387

>>5358222
hmm how did you get that trups there buddy??

>> No.5358390

Daily reminder that if you don't have an opiate addiction you will never be an opiate addict.

>> No.5358391

stupid fucking goddam frog face wtf even is this weird little frig face thing hahaha

>> No.5358433

Reading is merely a surrogate for thinking for yourself; it means letting someone else direct your thoughts. Many books, moreover, serve merely to show how many ways there are of being wrong, and how far astray you yourself would go if you followed their guidance. You should read only when your own thoughts dry up, which will of course happen frequently enough even to the best heads; but to banish your own thoughts so as to take up a book is a sin against the holy ghost; it is like deserting untrammeled nature to look at a herbarium or engravings of landscapes.