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I come back here 5 years later and see no more DFW, no more meme trilogy, no more Pinecone posting, no more nabokov. What happened lads? I miss the wallace memes. Why are we not discussing literature anymore?

>> No.14031582

>>14031567
>no more nabokov.
You cant have browsed for more than like an hour

>> No.14031582,1 [INTERNAL] 

Up yours, you wanker!

>> No.14031592

>>14031567
There's still a fair amount of Nabokov, except nu-/lit/ has laughably bad taste and doesn't seem to like Nabokov as much. /lit/'s in a bad way.

>> No.14031688
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>>14031567
>I miss the wallace memes

Be careful what you wish for.

>> No.14031710

Yeh. Now it’s mostly Ebola, Goonanon, and Jeebus. It’s sad.

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>>14031710
muh esoterism and fascism

>> No.14031730

I actually just started Infinite Jest (about 15% of the way through) and I really like it.

>> No.14031737

>>14031730
I remember being 17, you should really wait until your old enough to post here.

>> No.14031754

>>14031737
What makes you say this?

>> No.14031759

There's a fair amount of Pynchonposting. Far less DFW though. I do with the trilogy were discussed more, of the three I'd say GR is most discussed followed by U then IJ

>> No.14031765

>>14031737
What about his old enough?

>> No.14031766

>>14031567

People who read only to affirm their identity took over from people who read for the enjoyment of the written word and turned the board into /pol.

Flee! Flee for your life!

...or just hunt them down and shitpost for the personal enjoyment...

>> No.14031768

>>14031688
kek

>> No.14031770

>>14031737
Infinite Jest is great, go away with your pretentious and crabby mentality. Also actual 17 years olds read Rowling or garbage Sci-fi

>> No.14031797

>>14031770

It's not great. It peaks at very good.

The purpose of long passages is not evident and strikes one as gratuitous. There are beginner's errors near the beginning of the book, which I'm guessing he hoped would get buried under its bulk. Don't ask me for specifics, I don't remember.

>> No.14031803

>"guys why dont we talk about the same 10 books anymore?"

Everyone realized we had to move on if this board was going to move forward. There are still posts about them every day though so shut up.

>> No.14031808

>>14031567
they've all been retroactively refuted by Guénon

>> No.14031812

>>14031803
>move forward
What exactly is /lit/'s destination?

>> No.14031813

>>14031803
heading foward into the dumpster

>> No.14031816

>>14031567
This movie was pretty disappointing. Segel didn't capture any of Wallace's wit or thoughtfulness. He just played him as "tortured semi-retarded genius".

>> No.14031832

>>14031567
Old-/lit/ was retroactively BTFO'd by Guénon (CoTMW and in Reign of Quantity) and phased out. Nu-/lit/'s survival is dependent on how closely we follow Guenon's prescription

>> No.14031835

>>14031766

>>14031808 see what I mean? Identity posting.

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>>14031816
>semi-retarded genius
Post proof this isn't the case?

>> No.14031852

OP here, what's up with Guénon? Who here genuinely enjoy reading this guy? At least the old meme authors were actually fun to read

>> No.14031867

>>14031843
I had a feeling someone might say this. I guess I would argue that DFW may have fit that description, but not in the way that Segel believes. I feel like he played him as a traditional Oscar-bait headcase, where DFW's issues were a bit more complicated yet mundane.

>> No.14031873

less pynchon is A Good Thing, actually

>> No.14031887

>>14031852
>FUN FUN FUN !!!!
This attitude was retroactively BTFO'd by Guénon.

>> No.14031914

/pol/ happened unironically

>> No.14032001

>>14031567
DFW was prototypically BTFO'd by Deleuze

>> No.14032116

I unironically think Jordan Peterson and Donald Trump helped kill the big pomo novel around here. (Joyce, Pynchon, Wallace, DeLillo, Gaddis, Gass, Barth, Vollmann, McElroy.)

>> No.14032132

>>14031766
>reddit spacing
>exclamation points
>the now over six year old boogeyman of the same posters on the same website invading
shut up retard

>> No.14032143

>>14032116
>believing McElroy was EVER popular here because women and men was included as a mythical book that no one ever read in a meme chart
new

>> No.14032150

>>14032132
haha you fuckin owned that libcuck redditard how dare he use punctuation based as heck

>> No.14032176

>>14031797
This better be bait

>> No.14032192

>>14032143
He was popular to meme. He fit the archetype of the time. /lit/ was more nihilistic. There wasn't the same push for traditionalism.

>> No.14032197

>>14032150
an actual person got assblasted and posted this

>> No.14032200

>>14032192
That is simply not true. People wished they could get a copy of women and men and I posted a summary of cannonball a few years ago. Some anons have mentioned they liked lookout catridge. McElroy has never been anything resembling popular on this board.

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>>14031567
>no more meme trilogy
>everything always stays the same

>> No.14032210

>>14032116
PoMo /lit/ was a more pleasant place.

>> No.14032213

>>14032197
yeah hes assblasted as hell nice job bro

>> No.14032219

>>14032204
A new work of fiction has been added?

>> No.14032226

this is now a battlefield between Kaczynskipostsing vs g/accposting vs Guenonposting, pick your side

>> No.14032272

>>14031803
>move forward
ACCELERATE