/lit/ - Literature

>>14655262
wow, you're so brave for reading the scrawlings of some sad cunt. truly, what a heroic act! get this man a medal of bravery! it's not as if you are just indulging your preconceived notions and is in no way challenging your beliefs. the world is blessed to have intellectual warriors such as you.

At least use a 4chan format when starting abhorrent meme-farming threads for your shitty instagram or facebook group

You know, I don’t want to be offensive. But ‘Infinite Jest’ is just awful. It seems ridiculous to have to say it. He can’t think, he can’t write. There’s no discernible talent. I was upset in 2003 when the National Book Award gave a special award to Stephen King. But Stephen King is Cervantes compared with David Foster Wallace. We have no standards left. David Foster Wallace seems to have been a very sincere and troubled person, but that doesn’t mean I have to endure reading him. I even resented the use of the term from Shakespeare, when Hamlet calls the king’s jester Yorick, ‘a fellow of infinite jest.

>teehee, remember this /lit/? i saw this image on r/4chan and it was epic xD btw katie is back, remember this? she's looking for suggestions *hint* *hint* howabout you give her some? hey! remember this? /lit/, remember this? DO IT AGAIN /LIT/ I NEED THE REDDIT KARMA DO IT AGAIN I NEED TO SCREENSHOT IT I NEED THE EPIC 4CHAN MEME"S ARRRGGGHHHH!!!!!!

People on this board are so VAIN that they posture over books they pretend to have read, ANONYMOUSLY. That's right, they are trying to signal social standing with posts that can never be connected to any other one they post, or them as a person—THE ONLY PERSON THEY COULD POSSIBLY BE POSTURING TO IS THEMSELVES! Every single thread on a book will include a green-text of the book name attached with a disgusted looking Harold Bloom (who they, of course, haven't read). THAT'S HOW PEOPLE ARGUE HERE. They just post a smug "ohh I can't believe you'd read something like THAT" or "*snicker* you actually think THAT?" with no context. I'm convinced that no one has actually read a book on this board, they've just memorized names and faces and vague ideas associated with them, and just bounce the same baseless conceptions back and forth between each other until it forms a board wide gestalt consciousness of pseud. Like, someone here could show you the most obscure portrait of Kant looking like a negro-goblin, a wacky anecdote about coffee or his masturbation habits, but ask them anything about his actual philosophy and you will get TOTAL SILENCE. Ask about an entry-level book, TOTAL SILENCE; ask about a basic grammar concept, TOTAL. SILENCE. Ask which author had the biggest forehead, 100+ REPLIES WITH THE MOST BITTER ARGUMENTS IMAGINABLE. How ANYBODY could think this place the last bastion of literary culture is unimaginable. This board is the theoretical zero-point of Intelligent discussion on the internet.

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>>12293304
leave this board and never return