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8468143 No.8468143[DELETED]  [Reply] [Original]

>see people on the internet talking about books that they enjoy
>tfw I don't enjoy books because I'm forcing myself through boring as fuck canon novels
>tfw they're garbage but someone might call me a pleb if I haven't read them
>tfw Victorian novels are really stodgy pieces of shit but people keep wanking over them
>tfw Plato was stupid
>tfw Dickens is like reading one of Grandpa Simpson's interminable stories
>Dostoevsky is just "DUDE GROW UP AND ACCEPT JESUS LMAO"
>tfw clearly see how the Munchhausen Trilemma allows me to disregard anything but I still force myself to read boring as fuck philosophical works
>tfw all the 50s to 90s post modern books are unfunny, long winded, lolsorandumb pieces of shit
>tfw Pynchon simply could not put together a coherent work ("Tee-hee, what is coherent? What is not? Look I'm so smart, my Wikipedia info dump chapters prove it! Now watch my mountain of nuthugging pseud fans defend me by appealing to the establishments that post modernism calls in to question!")
>DFW's this is water speech, even after years of Amherst grown (genuinely intelligent in an analytical way) intellectualism, folds immediately back in to the sea of trivial platitudes, indistinguishable from the most banal Mid West fly over state soccer mom self help, and DFW knew it all too well

>> No.8468154

>reading books because others tell you to
What are you? a sheep?

>> No.8468160
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8468160

>>8468143
>conforming to peer pressure
>the peers are anonymous

>> No.8468164

>he still can't get past the Munchhausen Trilemma

>> No.8468186

>>8468143
God you're pathetic.

>> No.8468224

>>8468143
>DFW's this is water speech, even after years of Amherst grown (genuinely intelligent in an analytical way) intellectualism, folds immediately back in to the sea of trivial platitudes, indistinguishable from the most banal Mid West fly over state soccer mom self help, and DFW knew it all too well

ACCURATE.

>> No.8468237

>>8468160
To be fair, this meme is cancer. Anybody that is fucked by the world so hard that they cant explore it anymore should not be admired.

>> No.8468243
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>>8468224

Having a strong idea of what doesn't work is a good foundation for creating something that does.

I get the feeling that the next good novel I read will be posted here first. The publishing industry is built on regurgitation of what works, and only takes risks on MFA students, which is a ridiculous paradox.

Thank god for self publishing.

>> No.8468282

>>8468243
is this post satire?

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>>8468282

Angry MFA spotted

>> No.8468369

>>8468143
>>tfw clearly see how the Munchhausen Trilemma allows me to disregard anything but I still force myself to read boring as fuck philosophical works
haha ok haha