/lit/ - Literature

>>22212174
>can tell lit history by the image number

anon, I kneel

>>19114136
so easy to tell who is new

>>13992585
>real this time

fuckin' hell lads

>>12604807
>Wallace's subjects in "The Pale King" are loneliness, depression and the ennui that is human life's agonized bedrock, "the deeper type of pain that is always there, if only in an ambient low-level way, and most which most of us spend nearly all of our time and energy trying to distract ourselves from."

>"The Pale King" dares to plunge readers deep into this Dantean hell of "crushing boredom," suggesting that something good may lie beyond. "Pay close attention to the most tedious thing you can find (tax returns, televised golf) and, in waves, a boredom you've never known will wash over you and just about kill you," Wallace writes in a note that's included at the end. "Ride these out, and it's like stepping from black and white into color. Like water after days in the desert. Constant bliss in every atom."

>>11377018
>Some of you guys are alright, don't go to the School of Resentment tomorrow

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>>11086064

Read his comments in Library of America's remembering Ashberry and remembering Guin, he sounds straight up ready to die.

https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/1323-remembering-john-ashbery-writers-pay-tribute#bloom

https://www.loa.org/news-and-views/1375-fellow-writers-remember-ursula-k-le-guin-1929-2018#bloom

>>10754938
False

>crack open Infinite Jest
>ctrl+F "discernible talent"

>yfw /lit/ becomes single-handedly responsible for killing booktube

Harold Bloom is the world's last Man of Letters of any import.

When he is gone the study of literature will just be tumblr

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