/lit/ - Literature

jesus christ what has become of this board

>>18154099
>more than half my life
Me too brother, I'll be 30 in August. I hope you have hobbies and a family and don't blame 2011 /r9k/ stereotypes of 4chan for having a shit life!

obvs 46

>>16338538
take off my belt

>tfw this is the thread with the most literary discussion in all of /lit/

>>15216329

>The industrial revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
>The Protestant reformation and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
These were pretty true but now things are getting retarded
>the invention of the written word and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
Is this just abbo-apologism?
Coming soon:
>the creation of organised civilisation and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
>the agricultural revolution and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
>the domestication of animals and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
>clothes and their consequences have been a disaster for the human race
>the creation of fire by man and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
>basic tool use and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race
We could probably take this further as well

>>13111241
>tfw the phenelzine hits

>>12909113
>some hysterical leftist who has spent literally hundreds of hours reading involuted nonsense by some french pedophiles accusing the penis washer of being an obscurantist
oh man

Holy FUCK boys. Chapter 23 after the wastoid chapter. How can anyone endure this? I had to skip it. The next chapter is experimental and it felt like a sick joke with everyone in the office flipping a page after I had to skip ahead and see how long that chapter was and ultimately decide to skip it entirely. Maybe I'll go back to it tomorrow but jesus christ. Fo now, I'm gonna move on. Its not finished right heh?

>>12726679

>>12716738
He killed himself because he couldn't escape it. Are you going to tell me that putting the authors forward 70 pages into the pale king claiming the only fiction is the legal disclaimer that everything is fiction complete with DFWs trademark footnotes is postmodernism? The anecdotes and the barely sketching out what actually happens and the meta fiction and end notes in infinite jest aren't postmodernism? He couldn't escape it, and he realized that the cow eyed retards he described in his This Is Water speech were actually just cow eyed retards and he was a sham. He should have just written and lived in obscurity and not taken SSRIs. I guess at least he didn't go bonkers and shoot up like Wimbledon or a Boston halfway house but if he had it would have been epic bantz far surpassing Burroughs. What a pussy.

>tfw been avoiding borges and the magical realists all the way up to Uni because /lit/ meme
>tfw i get into argument with professor over late tier calvino
>bring up the usual arguments "schizo, druggy, wog scribblings"
>pulls out Invisible Cities and another late tier Cortázar schizo scribble
>proceeds to show me prose equivalent to my favorite writer (kafka;he knows this)
>mfw I fell for a lit meme and got btfo'ed in front of everyone sounding like an ignorant basedboy

>>12660080
painful

>>11638001
>>11638019

>>11601143
>implying i haven't already read it and have no desire to read it again

what are you planning to do with your English or philosophy major?

being serious, not taking the piss.

>>11511157
It's already dead. You're dead. This is hell.

>tfw you realize McCarthy, DeLillo and Pynchon might realistically die this year

How will burger lit recover? Anyone fit to follow in their footsteps?

>>11148633
yeah that's true i guess, today has had alot more political people in it
8ch.an does have more fiction discussion but is SOOOO SLOW that it makes you want to blow your brains out

>>11137918
>view any twitter bio
>occupation: [job]/writer
everyone is a writer now

>>11092021
>tfw you will never read or write any poetry this good ever again

>>11045003