/lit/ - Literature

>>8557942
lol

>>8116902

>with normie group at bar
>one normie goes on about how he's been reading dennis lehane, crime fiction, hemingway
>sez o, reading thrillers and cheap fiction just isn't the same now that he's experienced deep, heavy Literature
>ask what book provoked the change
>vapes
>"like I said, hemingway"

>Not having read the required book
>Having read it like an idiot
>Looking in it for symbols; example: "The author uses he striking image green leaves because green is the symbol of happiness and frustration."
I am also in the habit of lowering a student's mark catastrophically if he uses "simple" and "sincere" in a commendatory sense.

>- see it and condemn the fashionable device of entitling a collection of essays or a volume of poetry — or a long poem, alas — with a phrase lifted from a more or less celebrated poetical work of the past. Such titles possess a specious glamour acceptable maybe in the names of vintage wines and plump courtesans but only degrading in regard to the talent that substitutes the easy allusiveness of literacy for original fancy and shifts onto a bust's shoulders the responsibility for ornateness since anybody can flip through a Midsummer Night's Dream or Romeo and Juliet, or, perhaps, the Sonnets and take his pick.

DFW BTFO
PKD BTFO
Fauxkner BTFO
Sir Terry BTFO
Steinbeck BTFO