/lit/ - Literature

>>16783713
Literally who?

>>16783754
Literary who?

>>16783713
is that a feminist lesbian?

>>16783713
>oh, look! I can get 300 replies by posting a turd sniffing twat that everybody hates!

>>16783713
More like Reddit Cuckold Waldun! LMAO!

>>16783776
he's a male to female to male chinaman to white man to sperg untermensch

>>16783713
Stop posting this chink jagoff

>>16783713
>Says he read Threshold by Rob Dyle and then admits he can't remember the details like where it was set

>>16783713
everyone who replies to this thread from now on is gae

>>16783713
>can't appreciate the subtle genius of R.C Waldun and his debut masterpiece, The Learned Disguise
Filtered

>>16784069
nice try, waldun.

>>16783713
Who gives a fuck about these "classic" books this guy reads? Pretentious jackass, shut up.

>>16783713
He makes a legit point. If you hang around bookstores and libraries, you find interesting, unexpected books to read.

Just one more reason why the slow death of bookstores and libraries is not a good thing, for the /lit/ amongst us, anyway.

Holy fuck his full cheeks and probably skinnyfat body are obscene.

>>16784860
Literally me. How do I escape Waldunmode, guys?

>>16784872
/fit/
>>16784860
/lgbt/
>>16784837
/his/

>>16783713
we should transform his videos in /lit/ threads. please, use adblock

His debut novel certainly has unexpected moments

>>16783713
Not clicking. Summarize the video for me, bros.

>>16785361
>Z

>>16785372
you find hidden gems when browsing bookstores. dont think you're bound to the classics section.

>>16784837
>>16785496
sometimes i pick up a random book in the store and read the first page. it's always about some guy dilating or expounding the virtues of polygamy or whatever so i don't buy it

You have read Jamie Joyce’s dub liners right guys? Wouldn’t want to look stupid in front of mr.Morton

>>16785505
Why don't you like polygamy anon

rice cuck

>>16785372
I'll transcribe some select bits for you:

>If a book bore you, leave it, don't read it because it's famous, don't read a book because it's modern, don't read a book because it's old. If a book is tedious for you, leave it... d'at book has not been written for you.

>If you follow chart, if you talk about how many book you have managed to get true in X period of time, if you talk about "entry-level" literature, if you t'ink reading all d'uh proses is self-improvement, if you t'ink it is rike rifting heavier and heavier weight, stop reading.

>>16785505
Which book did you read where someone dilates on the first page?

>>16785636
>get true
kek i can hear it

>>16785613
it's just so fucking bad it actually hurts. i cannot believe it's real.

>>16783762
hehehehehehehhehehe

>>16785636
he pronounces "th" like d, so it's
> if you dink

ah excellent, another waldun thread

>>16785636
>d'at
> rike rifting
kek he can't pronounce TH and L?

>>16785716
You never met a Chinese before?

>>16785716
he also can't into plurals

>>16785734
What makes me chuckle is that he consistently uses the singular when he should use the plural, but also vice versa.

>>16785734
He drops articles too
> dis is great textbook for learning about basic physics

>>16785767
How fucking Chinese is this dude I thought he was from New Jersey.

>>16785613
>"Christ, were you excited when I first led you to my writer's den: the back room?"
Mr. Morton...

>>16785932
Femboy waldun got fucked by the english professor who inspired him at his family member’s wedding confirmed. God I want to be next, let me fuck you waldun you dirty slut

>>16785613
you bought the book. least you can do is post it right side up

>>16785827
If you look at his earlier videos from 2017 and 2018, his ESLness is much more apparent

>>16783713
>R.C. Waldun
>Chinese(?)
Did this mf give himself a name that sounds /lit/-y?

>>16786197
His real name is Robin Wu, it's listed as the publisher of his book on Amazon.

>>16786208
R.C. Wu sounds fine. Waldun sounds a bit too close to Walden. Unless you're publishing some degenerate shit and fear for your personal safety you shouldn't use a pen name. Absolute fegghits.

>>16786253
I find it sad that he uses a European pen name and never refers to Chinese literature. He seems to fetishize 18th-19th century Europe.

>>16783713
This guy seems okay but Waldun makes me feel like I'm reading the word Walden mid-stroke.

>>16786253
>>16786288
He references Thoreau's Walden in The Learned Disguise, so I wonder if he got his pen name from there (and possibly misspelled it when he made his persona public).

>>16785613
i think i hate Mr. Morton

>>16786282
Yeah, the Dark Academia video is like an ode to white people. It's sadder if you look at his stories on Instagram, filled with God damn I love being white memes. A dozen clips of white/Jewish guys dressed like Wu and he captions them with things like
> life goals
> this is perfect
> wish this was real life

>>16786310
He misspells a lot of people's names in his book

> Emily Dickenson
> Van Gough
> Mary Shelly
> honorable mention: Allan Poe

>>16785505
Wtf bookstores do you go to lad?

>>16785613
Oh no no no

>>16786282
Me too. It seems waaaay too common for Western-born Asians to hate themselves. Seems to be even worse with the women, which is why we see something like SIXTY PERCENT of American Asians saying they wouldn't date an Asian man. It really is sad. East Asia, especially China, is absolutely kino.
>>16786310
That was my first thought when I read his name. Its etymology is weird too. Wal- sounds pretty Germanic and -dun is a Celtic term meaning fort (like Dùn Èideann or Dùn Breatann). It's all weird. Just go with Wu.
>Blah Blah Blah by Robin Wu
sound fine.

>>16783713
Thanks, reported the video for terrorism and hate speech.

>>16786335
Allan Poe is correct. It's just unusual to drop the Edgar.

>>16786683
It's not correct. It's either Edgar Allan Poe or simply Poe. "Allan Poe" sounds like someone who doesn't know literary conventions and learned about him yesterday

>>16786717
Not misspelled you twat. Neck yourself for trying to win this argument.

>>16786683
It's Allan to his close friends, Edgar to everyone else

>>16786725
Hi Robin

>>16785613
Straight quote marks and apostrophes. I smell the smell of print on demand.

>>16786725
It's still not correct, Rice Cuck.

>>16786788
If you type quotation marks in Microsoft Word, it can automatically convert to curly quotation marks. I'm guessing he wrote this in Notepad or a similar basic word processor to be more raw and literary

>>16786797
you're just jelly that you're not good friends with Papa Hemingway, Jamie Joyce, and Brother Speare. Only RC can use their nicknames

>>16786797
>misspelled names
>Allan Poe
>Allan misspelled
>Poe misspelled
I rest my case, fedora-lord.

>>16786823
I replied to the guy talking about correct names, not about misspellings.

>>16786821
>lumping Papa Hemingway in the same boat as Brother Speare and Jamie Joyce
Philistine

>>16786835
Origina post:
>He misspells a lot of people's names in his book

>> Emily Dickenson
>> Van Gough
>> Mary Shelly
>> honorable mention: Allan Poe
This post is about author names being misspelled.

Original reply:
>Allan Poe is correct. It's just unusual to drop the Edgar.
This post is about the spelling being correct, but a weird way to state his name.

You're the twat.

>>16786877
The correct spelling is Edgar Allan Poe. He entirely forgot the first 5 letters

>tfw he hasn’t posted any more elegant proses since we began mocking him
Have we ruined /ourtwink/?

>>16786924
See >>16786823

>>16786924
Then your original post is incorrect because you claimed that the spelling of "Poe" was correct. You forgot the first 10 letter, dumb nigger.

>>16786924
This

Rate him 1 star on Goodreads and all this spam will magically stop.

>>16786972
Using the last name or full pen name is the correct way, yes. Anything else is degenerate and wrong.

>>16783713
God, I'd fuck Waldun in his tight little ass so much. I want him to make pig sounds as I penetrate him ontop of all his shitty books.

>>16787002
It may be wrong, but the spelling is not incorrect as was originally posited.

>>16786993
what spam

>>16786282
>>16786328
>>16786395
>grew up in western society
>is it into a hobby that is overwhelmingly European
No shit he’s into European aesthetics literature is a European thing. Lit is fundamentally too individualistic and aesthetic for the average materialistic hivemind bugman to understand. Almost every Asian author of note like Mishima said that their artistic pursuits were considered wastes of time, by their fathers and wider society. And waldun has said in one Q&A stream that he reads lots of eastern literature and murukami’s Norwegian woods is his favorite book

>>16787030
>literature is a European thing
Go and die, you anglo loving fuck.

>>16787030
Hello Waldun.

>>16787041
Kek, that guy was reading the book on Vocaroo and people were accusing him of being Brother Waldun based on his voice.

>>16787012
That was an old conversation. The topic now is about 'Edgar Poe' being an incorrect way to refer to Edgar Allan Poe. It's like calling J.R.R. Tolkien 'R. Tolkien' or Jorge Luis Borges 'Luis Borges.'

>>16783713
Who?

>>16787030
>murukami’s Norwegian woods is his favorite book
An even shittier taste than expected. This faggot just keeps on giving kek

>>16787059
/ourdarkacademic/

>>16787030
>murukami’s Norwegian woods is his favorite book
1. I'm surprised it's not In Search of Lost Time, he namedrops Proust all the time in his videos.
2. You messed up the title, it's Norwegian Wood (singular). Waldun?

>>16787058
What's the big deal? We know who Jamie Joyce is, even if his name isn't Jamie. Maybe Tolkien's friends called him something different
> yo J, how's that new Ring book coming along?
> what up my homie, R Tolk, that new book of yours, Silmarillion, it was bitchan

>>16787081
1. He hasn’t giving a full tier list of his favorite books publicly. Other then maybe this https://youtu.be/P299S2FarOk he also hasn’t read any Proust past swanns way
2. Don’t care murukami is a cuck

>>16787081
The beatles song that the book gets its name from is actually translated to "norwegian woods" in japanese.

>>16787115
Holy fuck, you ARE Waldun!
You're a very pretty sissy, transition now and I might fuck you.

>>16787109
You're beyond cringe, Rice Cuck. This is why your books suck.

any more recs for this chart?

>>16787135
Wow, you're a dirtbag. What dirtbagcore books would you recommend?

>>16787135
note how his “Z” is capital and the vocaroo dude has a lowercase “z”. This person is an imposter of the vocaroo guy trying to trick people into thinking he’s Waldo.
Heh, but he missed on important detail

>>16785361
i don't get it, what unexpected moment?

>>16787250
guess you can say i have a learned disguise

>>16785451
I laughed harder at this than I should have.

Oh my dearest Waldun, I hope you read this. There is much to be said for self-publishing a book, and most of it bad. If you’re not lucky enough to be a bored housewife who vanity-publishes her cheap erotic novel, spurred on by her well-meaning friends and breadwinning husband, you might be unlucky enough to be a Youtuber, under constant scrutiny by a horde of faceless avatars who encourage you, through the positive reinforcement of likes and subscriptions, to exaggerate your worst, most self-parodic tendencies for their passing amusement.

RC Waldun, the author of The Learned Disguise, is the unfortunate victim of the latter category. His readership, as he is aware, will be composed almost entirely of those who know him best for his short videos on literature, dark academia, productivity and internet culture through Youtube. As any good Youtuber knows, the purpose of the medium is quick engagement, and one tends to end up saying things which one doesn’t necessarily believe, only to contradict oneself weeks or even hours later when the moment becomes propitious. This is perhaps one of the potential benefits of the medium; a degree of ideological plasticity is good for any writer, as long as he or she maintains some core self-identification. But turning the pages of Waldun’s debut novel, one sees the hand of an author unsure of himself, who is yanked here and there by his followers and detractors, trying alternatively to please and displease them, without any singular vision ever really coming through.

>>16787301
The moment that Waldun-kun -- or Z -- appears in this thread, while impersonating OP

>>16785361
nothing in that reads as horrid, why do we hate this guy

>>16787626
newshitters trying to fit in, mostly

>>16787626
Who hates him? I've explicitly stated that I want to fuck his asshole like the sissy faggot he is. No hate here.

>>16787632
seems likely, he seems pretentious from what the rest of the screenshots speak but not enough to warrant these threads. Seems like he's just a bit full of himself, not able to take jokes im assuming, and pretentious. But 4chan loves to harp on people with those traits, especially those with fame they judge to be undeserved, so it may not just be new friends.

>>16787638
yeah he cute id pound

>>16787626
I don’t hate him. In fact I think I might end up defending him a bit in my review. His stream of consciousness section wasn’t that bad and was not executed to poorly at all really he just needs to work on writing natural dialogue and not hiring random editors on the internet.
Here’s the stream of consciousness section btw
https://voca.ro/1lqYie7V2HIb

>>16787672
yup, that was my guess as well, he's definitely pretentious and has very little self awareness (unless he just doesn't care).
but his personality does not warrant these threads.

>>16787713
No one cared about him until he started privating videos 5 minutes after /lit/shared them and deleting his books off of Amazon. Then people realized he was here, reading our threads

>>16787743
This.
This is the only reason threads like this exist.
I only post in them so that he starts transitioning.

>>16787081
I dont know why I laughed so hard at this

>>16787743
when did he do that?

>>16787030
This. Nothing is more cringe than Americans trying to "return to their roots" and end up laying it on way too thick. RC Walden is an Asian American, not a Chinese

>>16787743
what are you talking about? he hasn't made any of his videos private, and his only book is still up on amazon

>>16783713
I want to hate the face of this manchild, but I can't fault him for posting Faulkner.

>>16787794
based faulkner bro

he should collab with paperbackdreams

>>16787778
He lives in Australia and Chinese is his first language, you retard

>>16787803
I'm sorry I don't know gay e celeb trivia

>>16787802

>>16787811
Maybe don't make assumptions then

>>16787030
The Japs are distinct from the rest of the Yellow hordes. Perhaps it was living on an island, or having a phonetic script, but they have developed a noble racial soul. They can individuate and appreciate Western literature on its own terms.

Now stop being a namefag you sack of shit.

>>16787823
He was right about what mattered. Stop simping for your boyfriend simulator.

>>16787771
>>16787781
>>16763501

If you look through his old videos, the one that was titled "I wrote a 45,000 words book!" is gone. If you try to place an order on Amazon, it won't let you buy it

>>16787833
>trying to reason with a tripfag user

>>16787833
chinese isn't really pictorial, though

>>16787842
this thread is from three days ago, though.
someone's been constantly making threads about him for like two weeks

>>16787223
Papa Hemigway, of course.
There's a video, I can't remember the title, where he said that before reading literature he used to read "postmodern philosophers as Derrida and Foucault".
Also Proust, Poe, and obviously Kerouac (and all the Beat Generation, really).
Where did you get Land from?
About Joyce, you should specify the particular novel that influenced TLD: "Portrait of a Young Artist" (or something like that, sorry I'm not anglo).

>>16787875
It's like covid right, yeah? attention starts small and you don't notice it until exponential growth and there are 2-3 daily Waldun threads. As for the previous threads, his Dark Academia videos went viral and YouTube started recommending him to a lot of people

>>16787875
the bukowskifag has evolved

>>16787908
yeah, but the whole angle with "it's because he deleted his shit" doesn't make sense.
it's just newshitters trying to fit in by cringing on booktubers

>>16787781
Some anon linked a video of him here the other day. I saw it in time but then a bunch of people were replying that the video was gone. I couldn't believe them, I just had watched it. I went to check and yes, it was gone.
A strange coincidence.
And now, people are openly mentioning /lit/ on the comments of his videos, so he should be here by now, in case he wasn't before.

>>16787935
>And now, people are openly mentioning /lit/ on the comments of his videos
god, how i loathe those people

Has Waldun ever given you guys attention?

>>16787926
From my own experience that I didn't pay attention until I knew that he was lurking here and maybe posting. I thought the previous threads were someone shilling their shitty vanity book and ignored

I don't get the logic behind deleting the videos. It is because he mentions The Learned Disguise on them?
I've been zapping around his channel and for the past year he had mentioned his novel on a lot of his videos. Is he going to delete everything?

>>16787974
No, those videos only had a few minutes about LD at the end and the majority of the content was about his normal motivational speech crap. This was the first video that was 100% about how great his book was

>>16787953
he came in my bussy a few weeks ago but then he ghosted me ;(

>>16788021
pls be in London

>>16787953
He recorded a bunch of vocaroos making fun of his own writing a couple days ago?

>>16787794
he hasn't read the book, though.

>>16784837
A used bookshop is how I found 2666 and bought it on a whim, only to find out /lit talks about it

>>16788049
it looks like it's been read

>>16787223
very nice meme

>>16788044
not him

>>16788054
Not at all.

>>16787842
is 45k impressive? i wrote an 8k dnd setting introduction and felt it was too short lmao

>>16787953
He privated a video about The Learned Disguise 30 minutes after the link was posted on /lit/. He has done this twice.

>>16788070

do not listen to this uncultured gnetlemen i am waldun
https://voca.ro/18ZpNd4xAJ2R

>>16787626
>nothing in that reads as horrid
That's because you're also ESL or just low IQ. You have a bad grasp of the English language, friend. Most of those sentences are really clunky and read horridly.

what can we lads learn from this debacle?

>>16788273
Never self-publish.

>>16788277
walt whitman self published

>>16788289
walt whitman had talent. this chink doesn't have any talent.

>>16788309
waldun has talent just wait for the la'academy you will see

version 2

>>16788567
Where’s papa hemingway? NOT based bro

>>16788567
you need to add Q's book 'Baby Alex'

>>16788567
holy cringe
moar?

>>16788580
>>16788572
v2.1

>>16788603
Now that's a motherfucking chart!

>>16788567
My sides

>>16788603
doing my dissertation on this.

>>16788603
something good came out of these threads. I salute you, Anon.

>>16788603
coming along nicely

>>16788603
Don’t forget Emerson and mr throw

These threads are going to kill me.

>>16783713
Stop spamming your e celebs

>>16785361
That actually reminds me of that time I tried to read Twilight for some godforsaken reason. Except Stephenie Meyer at least had an editor.

>>16785613
>he thinks this is how people talk

You haven't read the author? OMG I sure love a typewriter

I can't wait for the day Kat from paperbackdreams writes her own book.