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Anonymous Thu May 14 21:56:33 2015 No.6542032 [Reply] [Original]

>on /lit/ for years
>used to take shakespearefags for plebs
>same to nietzsche and to the rest of the fedora/entrylevel
>uni friend came to my house and see my bookshelf
>says she attends to a sort of a book club, every once a month, and that i MUST be there next time
>be there
>~10 folks, start discussing dorian gray
>ok.jpg
>folks majority opinion was that book is boring and hard to read, also that henry was awesome
>discussion ends and lots of bear appears
>talking to folk
>"my favourite writter is tolkien"
>"oh noes, george martin much better"
>"do you even know name of the wind"
>"that guys who wrote sandman, much better"
>harry potter, hitchhikers guide, twilight etc
>wonders if i entered a parallel dimension
>asks a guy what he thinks of shakespeare, he says he only read something about it on brave new world but wasnt triggered
>asks the apparently club leader why did they chose dorian gray as the last book, says she had seen the movie and thought it was nice
>decide to get drunk and hear no more about books that night

I will never call you shakespearefags of plebs anymore.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 21:59:56 2015 No.6542042 thinking shakespeare is for plebs is almost as bad as saying the greekfags are plebs. Its fundamental to the canon

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 22:00:22 2015 No.6542043 Those people represent the majority of the book buying public. Get used to it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 22:00:36 2015 No.6542045 Why the fuck did you think Shakespeare is for plebs?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 22:01:50 2015 No.6542049 >tfw you will never find a book club that would actually want to read quality literature

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 22:02:13 2015 No.6542050 >>6542032 You deserved it for thinking Shakespeare's pleb in the first place you turboprole

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 22:03:12 2015 No.6542051 >used to take shakespearefags for plebs Fuck off and take your sage

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 22:03:23 2015 No.6542052 >>6542045 i dont, but its a commonplace here, and as so, its a pleb thing. everyone who comes here is supposed to have read all of shakespeare works

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Anonymous Thu May 14 22:05:54 2015 No.6542062
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>tfw you meet a seemingly literate person
>tfw you check their facebook and they've liked hunger games
>tfw you see a facebook post in which they apologize to their friends and family for their white privilege
>tfw they're a huge douche/faggot

why

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Anonymous Thu May 14 22:32:15 2015 No.6542154

>participate in NaNoWriMo 2008
>find local NaNo chapter on forums
>attend rl meet at B&N
>be the only guy there
>everyone else fat girls writing Twilight ripoffs
>love fatties
>be told I look like vampire guy in hottest fatty's novel
>fatty wants to bang
>bang fatty
>feelsgoodman.jpg

pleb life
no shame

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 22:34:46 2015 No.6542165 >>6542154 >tfw girlfriend is a model feels good i wish she was fatter

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 22:36:44 2015 No.6542174 >>6542032 >not converting those around you by pushing them to read actual literature Its like you enjoy being disappointed with everyone else.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 22:41:08 2015 No.6542191 File: 11 KB, 236x306, ah.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6542062 Every fucking time man

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Anonymous Thu May 14 22:43:42 2015 No.6542200
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>tfw meet q.14 hs eng teacher at bar
>eng major myself so instant gravitational pull
>starts quzzing me over favorites; she's impressed by my selections
>'who's your favorite author anonette?'
>"kafka! i just love russian lit!"
>almost spit out my drink.gif
>correct her, she feels plebian, i feel embarrassed for her, bonds of chemistry completely broken

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 22:45:19 2015 No.6542204 >>6542200 qt3.14

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 22:50:07 2015 No.6542216 >>6542200 pls don't be real

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 22:51:17 2015 No.6542219 >>6542032 >on /lit/ for years That's your first problem

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 22:52:27 2015 No.6542224 >>6542219 >you will never leave 4chan

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 22:54:19 2015 No.6542234 >>6542154 why did i laugh so hard?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:02:50 2015 No.6542260 >>6542200 Dude... calling Kafka russian or Marx german are the oldest wink-wink bonding jokes in the book...

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:04:26 2015 No.6542262 >>6542260 Fuck off with your damage control, anonette

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Anonymous Thu May 14 23:10:16 2015 No.6542279

Related to OP's story..

>Discussing The Dead by Joyce in an English survey class
>Class mostly female, professor is female
>Professor says "what did you guys think of Gabriel? A real peach, huh?"
>Class agrees he was an asshole

This isn't /r9k/, but still 4chan..am I alone in sympathizing for Gabriel? I mean I would be pretty pissed too if my wife was crying about some dumbass who died because he was too beta to just go inside.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:11:46 2015 No.6542283 >tfw everyone seems to be either a mega pleb who reads YA fiction and thinks you're snobby when you say you like Faulker novels, or a super educated and knowledgable patrician who thinks you're a pleb when you say you like Faulker novels

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:12:38 2015 No.6542288 >>6542283 I'm the latter.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:17:12 2015 No.6542307 >>6542032 I don't like book clubs because I don't like discussion books. Don't know why, I'll enjoy a book/film/comic/videogame in my own way, I never feel the compulsion to talk about it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:19:03 2015 No.6542313 >>6542154 I want to do NaNoWriMo again. Did it once in like 2012 but the story was so bad and needed like 3 years worth of editing to fix I never got around to it.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:19:14 2015 No.6542315 >>6542283 i feel you bro, we are living in the twilight zone.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:20:03 2015 No.6542317 >>6542283 What do the latter like then? I've never met a truly patrician reader that admonishes Faulkner.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:21:34 2015 No.6542325 >>6542317 The Greeks.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:21:48 2015 No.6542326 >>6542313 I'd like to do it, just because now i want to bang a writer fatty. But the idea of writing a book in a month sounds dumb. Most writers take at least half a year to produce something good.

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Anonymous Thu May 14 23:23:21 2015 No.6542330

>>6542317

Well I was just using Faulkner as an example. It happens many times on /lit/ or IRL when some book nerd talks about how shit your favourite author is because of some weird esoteric philosophical message, and you're not getting it at all, and you feel stupid.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:25:52 2015 No.6542335 File: 103 KB, 624x434, aTVSO3s.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6542052 You do realize that this is irony, right? No one here is actually reading all those books before saying "pleb". Just read your books.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:27:44 2015 No.6542345 >>6542317 Nabokov? He started the whole shitting on Faulkner thing.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:29:10 2015 No.6542351 >>6542345 Yes, but he also juvenilely criticized Dostoevsky. Plus, his criticism is pure sophistry.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:33:16 2015 No.6542368 File: 46 KB, 720x633, 1431200037435.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>6542200 No... actually?

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:34:15 2015 No.6542372 >>6542326 It's quite beneficial to your worth ethic, after discovering I was able to write 50,000+ words in a month it gave me more confidence on my later projects.

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:34:37 2015 No.6542375 >>6542283 >liking Faulker novels

>>	Anonymous Thu May 14 23:34:53 2015 No.6542377 >>6542283 >patrician >shitting on Faulkner That's a bit contradictory.

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Anonymous Thu May 14 23:56:21 2015 No.6542465
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>>6542200

>>correct her, she feels plebian, i feel embarrassed for her, bonds of chemistry completely broken

If you weren't such a sperg you would know that her overriding feeling in that moment was her sudden realization that she was talking to a smug douchebag.

How are you this clueless seriously.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 00:00:26 2015 No.6542481 >>6542351 But droogy, don't you know that the Kukuruza Otetz was a very jocular and sarcastitchny muzheik in general? That's a bolshaya chast of his appeal.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 08:16:47 2015 No.6543554 >>6542032 I say you should suggest the Wake as their next book and watch these belittled worms squiggle about in their hopeless idiocy

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 08:26:01 2015 No.6543569 Welcome back to this dark pit. You do know that /lit/ is just like those people, only on a somewhat more obscure level?

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 08:32:34 2015 No.6543579 >>6542042 This matter how? Importance doesn't equal quality. Plebs can't seem to understand this

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Anonymous Fri May 15 08:33:26 2015 No.6543581

>>6542279
I was annoyed as shit at her but didn't like him either. Not because of this scene in particular (I can definitely understand, if not sympathize with the feeling of discomfort about a loved one's hidden aspects) but because he was a smug fag through and through.

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Anonymous Fri May 15 08:38:36 2015 No.6543587 [DELETED]

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>>6542307
That's the difference between plebs and patricians. So to speak. Plebs lives revolve around social gratification whilst the rest of us can do something for purely intellectual ends. And we could die not unhappy if our pursuits aren't shared with anybody else.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 08:41:18 2015 No.6543593 >>6542351 He also ripped on Jane Austen before teaching one of her books to his pupils. The man was an envious as can be. It's like he wanted to be the only literary talent around for decades before and after him.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 08:42:48 2015 No.6543595 >>6543579 If you can't identify and appreciate the merits of Shakespeare, you are the pleb.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 08:42:52 2015 No.6543596 >>6542465 If correct dumb bitches all day even if it means I don't get laid. There's always whores after all.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 08:44:43 2015 No.6543601 >>6543595 Define merits.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 09:20:16 2015 No.6543686 >>6542260 But Marx was german.

>>	Anonymous Fri May 15 14:42:27 2015 No.6544727 >>6543686 Oy, Vey!