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>in Analysis of Lit class
>using our textbook, Critical Theory Today
>section on Feminism describes Absalom, Absalom! and Finnegans Wake as ways to "spontaneously connect to the unfettered, joyous vitality of the female body...which is the source of life."
>notice the author wrote Finnegans Wake as "Finnegan's Wake"
>stand up in the small room of ~10 people
>walk through the exit and drop the book in the trash can on my way out

>> No.6444906 [DELETED] 

I like these stories. They make me smile a little when I read them.
They're like Ignatius J. Reilly fanfic.

>ywn attend a party and hear John's wit and gift for mimicry

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6444924

>in Analysis of Lit class
>small class, about 10 people
>theres this one weird guy no one talks to
>he starts squealing
>everyone looks
>room is dead silent except for this guy muttering "...fucking plebs..." to himself
>gets up and runs out of the room and throws his book next to the trash can

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>>6444924
>next to the trash can
haha make more :)

>> No.6444933

>>6444924
>throws his book next to the trash can
kej

>> No.6444945

>be in class
>liberal whitey complaining about 'poverty in america'
>he won't shut up
>i ask him what kind of phone he has
>he responds by saying 'what that have to do with anything
>i point out his clothes are worth hundreds dollars
>he shuts up
>the girl sitting next me started flirting with me afterwards

>> No.6444948

>>6444945
>>6444924
>>6444906
>>6444810
Please remember to cite your sources after making a direct quote.

>> No.6445184

I sure love these "things that have never happened to me ever but sure would make people mad if they had" threads made by neoconservative tools. They really improve the quality of the board.

>> No.6445194

>>6445184
No need to get butthurt over a joke

>> No.6445205 [DELETED] 

>>6445184
O yeah?
I don't like passive aggressive posts made by fagots.

>> No.6445210

>>6445184
>hurr durr I hate fun look at me mom, am I a grown-up yet ?

>> No.6445217

fuck off /b/
>>6445210
what is the source on this quote?

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6445253

>>6444810
>>spontaneously connect to the unfettered, joyous vitality of the female body...which is the source of life.
>tfw no qt gf

>> No.6445260

>>6444810
>"spontaneously connect to the unfettered, joyous vitality of the female body...which is the source of life."
Isn't that the whole point of surrealism?

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6445261

>be me
>being in university English class
>read book by woman with a female main character
>female teacher opens her mouth to speak
>sigh loudly and audibly while stretching
>every time a student tries to discuss the themes of the book or the gender of the protagonist I roll my eyes
>the word "feminist" is uttered
>the blood rushes to my fat, intellectually superior head, engorged by the knowledge I have absorbed from /lit/ and blogs online
>my fedora is crushing my head due to all the swelling
>"fucking plebeians!" I roar, spittle flying from my lips and hitting a rainbow haired transdyke, instantly impregnating her
>throw my copy of Pride and Prejudice into the trash where it belongs
>stomp out to reread Nineteen Eighty-Four and Breitbart articles in conjunction with each other

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6445280

>in Augustan /lit/ class
>talking about how Pope and Swift were both sexist, but that they were essentially a product of their times
>Girl with dyed hair and "FAG" stitched into her jean jacket keeps making sarcastic, Whedonesque quips
>"WE'VE ALL BEEN THERE"
>"BECAUSE WOMEN ARE OBJECTS, RIGHT GUYS?"
>"HOW FORWARD THINKING OF THEM"
>awkward silence every time she interrupts the professor
>Professor attempts to banter while still moving on
>this goes on for an entire semester

Prof deserves his tenure after dealing with this shit

>> No.6445288

>>6445280
If he had tenure, why didn't he just kick her out?

>> No.6445300

>>6445288
I'm assuming because he's mature and has dealt with shit like this for years. Probably didn't want to ruin her learning experience just because she has a problematic personality.

Or maybe he's just beta

>> No.6445317 [DELETED] 

>>6445261
>>the blood rushes to my fat, intellectually superior head, engorged by the knowledge I have absorbed from /lit/ and blogs online
lolololol

>> No.6445350

>>6445280
>talking about how Pope and Swift were both sexist
Why is this even relevant to /lit/ classes? Do history classes constantly bring up how nearly every single historical figure didn't have the knowledge about genders we have today?

>> No.6445360

>>6445350
You have to find something for the kids to connect to in an intro course - gender usually works well to start a discussion

>> No.6445371

>>6445350
>>6445360
The sad part is it was a 300 level course

>> No.6445386

How brave of you, OP.

>> No.6445474

>>6445217
OP

>> No.6445483

>>6445300
>problematic

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>>6444810
>in American Lit class
>about to start a section on Mark Twain
>fat guy in lumberjack jacket audibly scoffs when the professor announces this
>dude is so fat he's massive
>always wears this green hat, even in the spring and indoors
>Prof. starts the lecture with some biographical notes on Twain
>mentions his life on the Mississippi
>fat guy practically screams "My God! He lived completely without geometry and theology!"
>Prof. has been harassed all semester by this guy, and winces when he talks
>slutty chick that sits next to him eggs him on
>mentions something about sex, and the fat guy erupts and calls her a "minx"
>starts asking why someone named "Fortuna" could spin his "wheel this low"
like what the fuck? is that some sexual thing? like maybe he's into bondage?
>calls all of Twain's works "perversions" and "a moral assault on good taste"
Then after that he started wailing, like he was fucking harpooned, and just about went off in tears about his "valve"? Guy was the weirdest thing I've ever seen, and you can't really take a humanity course without seeing him or someone like him.

pic related, it's driving me up a fucking wall

>> No.6445548

>>6445261
>be me
lol why are tumblr users so obvious? fuck off

>> No.6445558

>>6445548
????

>> No.6445583

>>6445558
????

>> No.6445592

>>6445548
You realize the post is parody, right?
>lol
Consider suicide.

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6445598

>>6445592
>Consider suicide.
>trying this hard to fit in on 4chan
back to tumblr bb

>> No.6445607

>>6445521
>Then after that he started wailing, like he was fucking harpooned, and just about went off in tears about his "valve"
…what?

>> No.6445614

>>6445598
eh, the bookmaster was a pretty good movie

>> No.6445624

>>6445607
Yeah I shit you not, guy constantly bitches and moans about his "pyloric valve", whatever the fuck that is. I think it's something that slutty girl taught him, cause she says it too. Maybe it's another sexual thing? Like the whole Fortuna's Wheel I'm pretty sure is bondage, this could go deeper.

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>>6444948

>> No.6445645

>be OP
>something happened in a class I did not like
>do nothing and suck it up
>make a thread on /lit/ about how I rekt those nerds who disagree with me on one minor thing
>???
>drown in pussy

>> No.6445648

>>6445350
>Do history classes constantly bring up how nearly every single historical figure didn't have the knowledge about genders we have today?
There's always someone focusing on LGBT history or gay activism that has to point it out. It's really irritating and never adds anything to the discussion. It's more warranted than it is in literature discussions, though.

>> No.6445657

>>6445521
>tfw you're afraid you might become Ignatius
>tfw you think Boethius' worldview was basically correct
>tfw no qt minx gf

>> No.6445687

>>6445521
lol more of this please /lit/

>> No.6445706

>>6444810
>notice the author wrote Finnegans Wake as "Finnegan's Wake"
>doesn't blame the proof-reader
ISHYGDDT

>> No.6445717

>>6445548
yeah
they use greentext for anything but quotations

>> No.6445724

>300 level Literature class
>entire course is devoted to Woolf
>class is discussing themes of book through lens of feminism and "radical activism" stuff
>your average memewords of "Other", "problematic", "toxic masculinity" tossed around
>interject with bullshit on how the discussion is deindividuating the characters, erasing their agency, and that our discussion is problematic
>throw in stuff like "toxic authenticity" and "radical freedom"
>don't even know what I'm arguing
>people accept my memewords and agree
>"I never thought about it like that"
>get told after class I should look into various grants to do research into social issues in literature

I wish this was a "things that didn't happen". I really do. I thought people would take my memewords as a joke.

>> No.6445728

>>6445724
yeah, l'll bet

>> No.6445747

>>6445724
you sound bad at telling jokes

>> No.6445758

>>6445724
kek
I wish someone would make a book about this kind of posts
Maybe the next book made by /lit/ will be titled "Things that never happened".

>> No.6445761

>>6445724
Write an article or three on the depreciation of the modern education system's social issues department. These sorts of case examples will blow SJW's out of the water.

>> No.6445783

>>6445717
>>>/jp/

>> No.6445791

>>6445724
Here's my memewords.
Sure they did.

>> No.6445794

>>6445783
https://www.reddit.com/r/4chan

>> No.6445797

>>6445761
I really hope you're being sarcastic.

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>>6444810
>be in critical theory seminar
>discussing Deleuze and Guttari
>expand upon their succinct analysis of finnegans wake and how, despite its deceptively fragmentary nature, evokes Nietzsche's eternal return by feeding the last line into the first
>tutor has never read finnegans wake
>tutor has no idea what the fuck I'm talking about
>begin to breathe incredibly heavily through my nose
>conversation gradually peters out, the silence of the room is punctuated by my increasingly aggressive nasal breathing
>the girl to the left of me asks if I'm okay
>turn to face her, eyes bulging and bloodshot, steam pouring out of my nostrils
>cannot contain my euphoric rage any longer
>scream 'DIALECTICAL THINKING IS FOR SHEEP, TRY READING IN FOUR DIMENSIONS' and proceed to urinate uncontrollably all over my trousers
>flip the table and slowly waddle out of the room

>> No.6447471

>>6445607
read up pleb

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>>6445253
>tfw handholdless

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>>6445521
>tfw no minx gf

>> No.6447493

>>6445648
Here's a simple rule. The real men wrote about real men and the fags wrote about fags.

>> No.6447915

>in phil 101
>starting with the greeks
>segment begins with discussion on morality, virtues, etc of the time
>some autistic fuck in the hall starts playing music
>he's looking as smug as any person I've ever seen, with small fogged-over glases and an early 20th century outfit
>it's the ghostbusters theme
>he just sits there looking smug until the professor forces him to leave
>mutters something about it being his property as he's ejected by security

I hate this fucking class.

>> No.6449013

>>6447915
that's your fault for taking an intro 2 philosophy class

>> No.6449050

>>6445706
FW did not have a qualified proof-reader. Joyce had gone blind before the release, and the novel was dictated to Beckett who had to make the transcription on the spot.

>> No.6449061

>>6445350
History classes always have some kids who think they're the hottest shits because they can made judgements on hindsight.

>> No.6449824

>>6447915
>not starting with Descartes

>> No.6451130

>>6449824
Who startes with Descartes?

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>Absalom, Absalom!
>spontaneously connect to the unfettered, joyous vitality of the female body...which is the source of life

>> No.6451234

>>6447460
Real talk--anytime I go into a Deleuze phase I go fucking nuts and pace around rooms and mutter to myself while I'm walking around and try to blunt my racing thoughts.

>> No.6451972

>>6449050
he meant the text that printed it as finnegan's, you fucking dolt

>> No.6452068

>Philosophy of God class
>Guy's phone goes off
>Prof too polite to say anything so he continues talking about cosmological argument.
>Guy answers phone.
>Begins to talk loudly
>Prof reaches breaking point and asks whoever is speaking to stop.
>Guy hides under table and continues to speak loudly.
>Eventually, the girl next to him convinces him to end the call.
>Prof says in the future just go outside the lecture hall when making a call.
>Hear him saying afterwards he thought it would be less intrusive to just answer it rather than get up and leave.

>> No.6452132

>>6444810
The source of life is my testes.

>> No.6452149

>>6447915
i get it

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>>6444926
>>6444933
best ive seen for a while i had to cap

>> No.6454988

>take introductory philosophy class
>nothing particularly interesting really happens the whole semester
>there's this one guy who occasionally speaks up and expresses vaguely conservative sentiments which generally run somewhat counter to the position being lectured about
>he's really not that bad and never says anything completely ridiculous

life is just one giant thrill ride

>> No.6455008 [DELETED] 

>>6454988
>Man speaks his opinion

I'm sure you can do better.

>> No.6455019

>>6455008
that was the point. I can't.

>> No.6455978

>Be in intro-philosophy class
>Start with a text that is basically a shitting on main stream philosophical beliefs
>Professor seems to be Kant-tier
>Okay with this
>After several weeks we got to a section of the text that presents an argument against nihilism
>Kid in the class says that objectively there can be no moral objectivity.
>Prof. brings up the good old "under nihilism the holocaust is okay" point
>The kid don't back down, says that it is basically impossible to objectively condemn the holocaust within a moral context.
>Holy shit, he actually isn't backing down

I was legitimately impressed that someone stood by their beliefs, regardless of their idiotic content.

It actually was pretty funny, because the kid got a lot of hate from groups on campus.

>> No.6455996

>>6454988
come on, fella, just make it up like the rest of us

>> No.6456277

>>6455978
autism is not a laughing matter son, what you witnessed was a manchild being bullied by the world of academia.

>tfw I made an autist in high school say that if he were living in nazi germany he would gas the jews because he would no matter what always follow government orders. people bullied the shit outta him for it :(

>> No.6456418

>>6445794
Nice meme, saved.