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Alice Munro won the Nobel Prize for literature despite being a B- student.

>> No.5887674

It's almost as if academia is more to do with jumping through hoops and conforming to pre-existing standards than actual education.

>> No.5887677

>>5887674
ok...so what's your point exactly?

>> No.5887682

>>5887669
>one sentence determined to be "purple" by "anon"
>"fragment" sentence
>"B-"

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>>5887669
That's a wonderful opinion you've got there, Anon.

Do you often apply the rules of middle school grammar to nobel prize winning authors?

>> No.5887693

>>5887677

The OP is a retard trying to be clever in the worst way possible.

>> No.5887694 [DELETED] 

>>5887674
>pre-existing standards

Conforming ... to ... standards ... that ... are established?

Gasp!

Oh, education, you sham! If only Munro had actually graduated you'd be on to a sterling point.

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>>5887691

>> No.5887701

>>5887669
one of the perks of winning the nobel is that all your academic grades are rectified

>> No.5887709

>>5887694

The effort put into trying to be funny in this post is really cringeworthy.

>> No.5887716

>>5887669
That sentence boxed in red is pretty bad. Don't want to read anymore.

>> No.5887726

>>5887669
That grading is utter bullshit. Go to bed and stop pretending to be a teacher.

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>>5887726
>Stop oppressing me with grammar SHITLORD!

Ok.

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>>5887732
This is plumbing the depths. Utterly pathetic.

>> No.5887816

>>5887716
I agree. It isn't purple but it's still bad.

>> No.5887824

The Nobel Prize is a shit and irrelevant political tool.

>> No.5887933

So what is her book about?

>> No.5887940

>>5887933
Her stuff is a lot quieter than a lot of the flashy things /lit/ likes.

Imagine Robert Frost writing novels about middle aged women.

>> No.5887958

>>5887940
hnnng

>> No.5887969

>>5887732
There was no mention of grammar anywhere

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Excellent thread OP. Bonus points for textual examples; overthrowing the corrupt kabal of institutions who hold the monopoly on international fame; Being a beacon of light in such an abysmal insane asylum known as /lit/.

Here is thy crown.

KING OF LIT
KING OF LIT
HURRAH!
KING OF LIT
KING OF LIT
KING OF LIT
HURRAH!