/lit/ - Literature

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>>12128701
Is it weird I feel nothing about this but a kind of bored inner chuckle?

>>12128707
You've probably been on the internet a long time.

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>>12128698
why are you doing this?

>>12128721
I only took about a dozen caps so if there's anything you want a cap of that I haven't posted, I can see if I can find it and post that provided it's not too long (like the girl in the wheelchair getting raped).

>>12128731
Just cause.

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>>12128758
And here's the last one I got.

>>12128698
you are just as bad to promote this worthless shit without a cause as you would be if you wrote it, you idiot

>>12128788
hi s oyboy

>>12128796
it's a shame you're probably in your late 20s when you exhibit the mindset of an early teenager trying to be edgy

>>12128796
No effort/10

>>12128788
>Read a book
>Post excerpts from the book on the literature board because people may find it entertaining
Is there really any more reason necessary than that? Is that any worse of an impetus than making endless stack/'redpill me on X'/meme author of the month threads? It's on topic, if people want to engage with it, they can; if they don't, then it'll just slide off the board in a few hours to be replaced by something else.

It's 4chan. Starting a thread just cause is a just cause.

Wtf is this shit..

>>12128962
Excerpts from a novel by award-winning author, professor, and literary critic, Samuel R Delany.

Wait, is this book actually great? I mean, it's fucked, but it's actually really well writen. This is like Burroughs meets Bataille or something.

>>12129025
I wouldn't put him on the same level as Burroughs and I haven't read Bataille, but it's a weirdly endearing read. If you're interested, you can find a free epub copy pretty easy. Give it a couple chapters, see if it sticks.

>>12128872
bourgeois breeder freak

Do Americans really do this?

>>12129025
>Despite the book's pornographic surface, respected authors have given it their endorsement. Norman Mailer, for instance, said "There is no question that Hogg by Samuel R. Delany is a serious book with literary merit."[7] J.G. Ballard, prolific speculative-fiction author and elder statesman of transgressive literature, also praised Delany's work, citing the medium of pornography as being the "most political form of fiction."[8]

>Author Dennis Cooper said in his collection Smothered in Hugs: Essays, Interviews, Feedback, and Obituaries that "Hogg is tiresome and indulgent" and that the "pace is molasses-slow". However, he also goes on to say that "the book is a highly charged object...[and] that's reason enough to recommend it." In the Preface to a later edition of "Smothered in Hugs," Cooper writes, "I now think Samuel Delany's "Hogg" is a great novel, and I don't know why I didn't realize that upon first reading."

>>12129077
Really write books like this or work as rapists for hire? If it's the latter:
>Once, I spent a boozy evening at a Clancy's on Twenty-third Street, listening to a man regale me till closing with a tale, verging on psychotic incoherence, of the years he had spent as a "rape artist" when he had been paid to sexually molest women—usually strangers to him. His account was punctuated by unfathomable statements like: "But I never kill none of 'em. Not one—at least not on purpose..." —a sort of line frequently used to lend ironic poignance to certain romantic fictions but, when encountered in life, somehow says more about fiction than about the incidents under discussion. These, among other things, are the basal subject matter for Hogg.

>>12129077
Yes, I hammer nails into my cock on a regular basis. All my pals in high school did it.

>>12129025
it's pretty compelling even though it's filled with shit