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Have you ever had any of your intuitions turn out to be profound / cool truths? I can think of a few for me.

>read a literature professor explaining what quest novels are about (character goes in search of something but the main thing is that they grow as a person)
>he says that crying of lot 49 was a quest.novel
>later read it
>think to myself "How was that a quest.novel, how did Oedipa grow? Was a woman leaving the kitchen in the 60s that crazy?"
>later watch Yale lecture which confirmed.my intuition

>tell someone on /lit/ that ethics is not a worthwhile field, you just have to state your assumptions and everything else falls in to place trivially
>he says I'm wrong
>doubt myself because I was trolling and said the first thing that came to mind
>later read that I'm right

>read V by Pynchon
>think that it was an excuse to dump all his unpublished short stories
>later read that I'm almost certainly right

Also I could tell straight away that all metaphysics is bullshit but I won't count that since its an easy one.

>> No.5840868

This thread is ripe for embarassing responses.

>> No.5840873

>>5840862
How is metaphysics bullshit? Explain yourself, edgelord

>> No.5840876

From the age of about 10 I suspected that God did not exist and that major religious were a spook (although I didn't know what spook was) and lo and behold I was correct

>> No.5840889

>no one took the bait in the thread about V.
>Better dedicate an entire thread to my failed shitpost

>> No.5840895

Once, I had this profound intuition that OP was a faglord in love with himself, turns out I was right

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>>5840895
This.

>> No.5840906

>>5840889

But i said that I liked V. I'm actually more proud of my ethics paragraph. Although my (OP) final sentence was an insouciant and off the cuff masterstroke. I cant choose between them.

>> No.5840916

>>5840906
dude later tonight when ur reflecting on ur most EPICEST of trolls be sure to include this post im rofling on the floor rn xD