/lit/ - Literature

>*takes off protocols of elders of zion glasses*

>everything still looks the same

>>10752915
>>10753218

Compare the protagonist of Ready Player One's self-awareness to Dostoyevsky's Underground Man or Ignatius from Confederacy of Dunces Were you to post in a subredidit or /co/ or /tv/ you could find this type of person, and interact with them. They don't (overtly, consciously) critique themselves but exist as useful caricatures of a type of person the author was intently fixated upon exploring.

> I
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I find it difficult to believe an author could write a narrator this way without it being an obvious foil, but it is entirely possible. Without Cline's intent, (but knowing he is aware of and possibly enjoyed all the 80s and 90s media listed in the passage), the mere repetition of the narrator-as-subject appears comically absurd.

Did Cline intend to write a plucky and autistic self-insert (can you imagine how much more ham-fisted this appeal to millennials would be if it were written post-election 2016?) or a caricature of a specific undercurrent of the 21st century ego, fed a steady diet of commodified nostalgia, starring in it's own linear hero's journey?
Does it matter, when the former could be used to explain and attempt to deal with the latter?

Personally I hope that Cline hates the protagonist and everything it stands for, and is fully aware that those in his audience who resonate with the protagonist (who he effectively lampoons) will sail him into retirement by buying the book, the video game, the t shirt, tickets to the movie, and so on, and so on.

>>9462009
Write them out of you or they'll eat your insides

>>9424019

The same thing wrong with every principle: it's dogmatic. Every attempt to "prove" its validity deductively falls flat due to circularity.

>>9129628
I am calm. I am, in fact, amusing myself at your expense, hence -- your response to my shitpost.

How do I cope with the fact that the entirety of me i.e. "myself" is just an amalgamation of everything I am influenced by and not unique or new at all?

I literally cannot be myself because there is no way to know who myself really is.

>>7288473
But what if there is a justification for lighting someone on fire? Maybe they had the plague, and passed out. Mistaken for dead they were lit on fire and died but stopped from death others.
While the punch knocked someone out and they suffered from migraines.

You're argument make no sense.
It implies perfect knowledge and perfect prediction.
It make no sense it has no basis in reality.
>there is no measure now
>but we can get a roughness
But that IS subjective, we're looking for objective morality no?
Socialist dirt monkey go

I'm depressed and have deep anxiety. What should I read?

>>7018890
>pic
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I don't know why I keep getting surprised

>>6936998
Yeah but it's "art" and "poetry" so it's good, and because it's by feminists and something regarding women or feminism or something it's REALLY good and also important for society and the fight against the evil patriarchy, okay. Take power away from men and give it to women, then we'll have paradise on Earth, okay. Praise vaginas.

>>6629135
the first book i read that was that long was a biography of richard yates.
I'm now obsessed with all of his books

>mfw this is my first post on lit