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Why STEM majors can't write high literature?
Genre Fiction is their limit.

>> No.9336199

Solzhenitsyn majored in physics

>> No.9336205

>>9336199
USSR is completely other issue because it's was practically impossible to study humanities for common people there. I know about Solzhenitsyn and Platonov, Dugin and Sorokin.

>> No.9337078

Dostoevsky was an engineer in college, but he was more or less forced into that field by his father. His heart was always in literature.

Although, as of late some great literary works have been put out by some authors who were originally in the STEM fields such as: 'The Martian' by Andy Weir, and 'Free Will' by Sam Harris.

:)....

>> No.9337084

>>9337078
;)

>> No.9337389

>>9336177
Write high literature? They can't even read high literature.

>> No.9337397

>>9336177
Pynchon went into engineering before English

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>>9336177
>why is it that people who don't have an education/career that focuses on [thing] are less likely to be good at [thing]
hmmm

>> No.9337480

>>9337462
You fucked that up, stembabby

>> No.9337515

>>9337480
Fucked what up? I'm just stating common sense.

>> No.9337791

>>9337515
By putting [thing] twice, you're implying it's the same thing. Different things would be [thing] and [other thing] or something along those lines.

Don't feel too bad though, I wouldn't expect someone who fell for the STEM meme to understand the finer intricacies of language.

>> No.9337816

>>9337791
[[[[cannot tell if total idiot or next-level irony]]]]

>> No.9337818

>>9337791
readi t again retard. he was right. you literally are so possessed by your own point of view that your mind warped that sentence to fit your narrative

>> No.9337847

>>9337397
And he worked for awhile as a technical journalist.

>> No.9337911

>>9337816
>>9337818
It's ok STEMbabbies, I'm sure you're making lots of money. Grasping the basic fundamentals of the human language would probably only get in the way of your pursuits.

>> No.9337989

>>9337791
>>9337911
>By putting [thing] twice, you're implying it's the same thing.
Yes, I am. Maybe you try thinking before you embarrass yourself anon.

>> No.9338017

>>9336177
As an engineer working in semi-conductors I've come to find that my fellow engineers and the programmers that work with us are completely devoid of imagination. Their sole purpose is to be a shitty computer. They learn things and then sit around until they're told how to do it and when. God forbid a process isn't 100% complete because production is officially over until me or the director provide instructions on how to proceed.

I always thought I was an unimaginative piece of shit, but I always assumed it was just from years of drinking and staying up late. These people take it to another level while being devoid of personality. If they'd had any creativity while growing up they would not have chosen to be engineers. /rant

>> No.9338054

>>9338017
I've met some people like this too. I can't tell sometimes whether they are actually low creativity, or if they are just too chicken-shit (or too lazy?) to try anything slightly risky or outside their experience. Not sure which is more frustrating.

>> No.9338058

>>9336177
"Literary" is itself a genre

>> No.9338076

>>9337911
you're stating the exact same variable are different numbers, or in this case studies.

>> No.9338365

bump

>> No.9338505

>tfw STEM major who is into romanticism

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>>9337462
STEM person here. I find the use of the same variable meant to represent two different variables very upsetting. I'm going to bed.

>> No.9338642

>>9338076
>>9338542
They represent the exact same thing. Read that sentence until you get it, you absoute dunces.

>> No.9338704

>>9336177
>ctrl+f 'McElroy'
>0 results found
g00k pls nuke /lit/

>> No.9338752

>>9338704
He studied English

>> No.9338768

Chekov was a doctor

>> No.9338773

>>9338768
It's not STEM

>> No.9338777

>>9338773

>

>> No.9338782

>>9338773

No you're right, surgery is a creative process, no rules to follow, just YOLO it up and see what happens.

>> No.9338785

>>9338752
dang doodly

>> No.9338792

>>9338782
There're lot of subjects where there're a lot of rules but it's not STEM.
Economics, for example.
There is important difference between being the doctor and being the STEM major: work with humans.

>> No.9339114

bump

>> No.9339333

bumps

>> No.9339657

>>9339333
Checked

>> No.9340038

I dont get it. Why should they?

How many philosophy and english majors build spaceships and split the atom?

>> No.9340101

>>9340038

how many stem majors build spaceships and split the atom?

>> No.9340128

>not reading entirely technical and instruction manuals

I don't have time for your shitty fairy tales and masturbatory philosophies.