/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.14505458]

>I have (very briefly) joined a Conga line.

[Anonymous No.14505492]

>I gave an insincere "have a great night" to a hostess

[Anonymous No.14505525]

>>14505458
>Open to a random page in A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never do again
>"There are no black people in the Twilight Ballroom"
>Look for further context, there is none
I fucking love DFW

[Anonymous No.14505546]

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[Anonymous No.14505576]

>>14505492
>I looked at him and said a hybrid 'thank you,' 'you too,' and 'have a good night,' which sounded kind of like 'yghyeahh too, thanks.'

truly /ourlass/

[Anonymous No.14505686]

>>14505492
>>14505576
Who is this?

[Anonymous No.14505697]

>>14505525
I go through cycles where I resent him then just end up finding myself appreciating his prose and observations. He really was the last good author even if he was a hack on some levels.

[Anonymous No.14505757]

>>14505697
He wrote the last book that could reasonably be called a Great American Epic, the academia has to hold that forever now lmao

[Anonymous No.14506344]

>>14505686
steven pinker's niece

[Anonymous No.14506355]

>>14505576

[Anonymous No.14506424]

>>14505757
>forever
i give it 15 years

[Anonymous No.14506431]

>>14506424
Hope you can count to infinite

[Anonymous No.14506562]

>>14505458
I recently read A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again, the only work by DFW I have read, and I only really enjoyed the essays he wrote about tennis. He might have been happier as a sportswriter.

[Anonymous No.14506679]

>>14506562
Tennis is arguably the most fun sport to play if you actually enjoy sports and not just belittling someone with sheer physicality.

[Anonymous No.14506703]

>>14506355
As in Gurmukhi script, her work is written exclusively in lowercase, using only the period as a form of punctuation. Kaur writes this way to honour her culture. She has said that she enjoys the equality of letters and that the style reflects her worldview.[9] Her written work is meant to be an experience that is easy for the reader to follow, with simple drawings to elevate her words.[24]

Common themes found throughout her works include abuse, femininity, love, self-care, and heartbreak.[25]

In March 2015, Kaur posted a series of photographs to Instagram depicting herself with menstrual blood stains on her clothing and bed sheets. Described as a piece of visual poetry, it formed her final project for her undergraduate studies[26] and is considered as among her more notable works; intended to challenge prevalent societal menstrual taboos.[27] They were pulled down for not complying with the site's terms of service.[27][28] Instagram brought back the images; citing a mistaken removal and apologized to her, after being criticized for displaying the very response, that the works intended to critique.[26][28][29][30][31]

What's with all the gimmicks

[Anonymous No.14506836]

>Papa John's store #3052 is 'Taking Orders now' and 'Now Accepting Online Orders.' That is what I like to hear.

>I believe some people use their Papa John's 'Papa Rewards' account as their primary social network.

>Also is 'Domino's' -- so it belongs to Domino? It's his? Domino seems... I like him more. Domino would know how to get me 'in' places. Domino is a back door man. He has mafia connections maybe. His enemies flick his forehead and go 'plink! and there goes the dominos.' I'm ordering Domino's instead now... heh heh heh... baby's big nasty...

>How is the Domino's pizza tracker at 'bake' already. It switched off right after I rated my online ordering experience five stars. Holding off on rating other categories until they happen, maybe.

>Pizza tracker says 'delivering'. So prompt. They must not be Liveblogging. Tracker sats 'Jeffrey' has left the store with your order at 10:42PM. I will Liveblog Jeffrey for Jeffrey.

>Jeffrey has my pizza. Inappropriately coy-sounding news anchor said 'is Syria the next Afghanistan...?'

>Jeffrey called. It sounds like they beat him, at Domino's. Or he's an efficiency robot. He said 'I'll be there in one minute.' Jeffrey. Jeffrey Dahmer overdrive. Jeffrey Domino's overdrive. They must really wring him out, the way he requested I have my credit card prepared, so he could make 'an imprint.' Papa John's commercial on TV.

>Tipping Jeffrey $5. I think he's a good man.

>Jumped at doorbell. Jeffrey was a few years older than me. I liked him.

>Rated everything five stars, commented 'Great, thank you!'

>Reading reviews of 'pacific veggie' pizza on Dominos.com and feeling good-willed and big-hearted about reviewers. That they would. One review ends with 'thanks, Bernardo.' Unclear whether reviewer's name is Bernardo, is thanking Bernardo, or is named Bernardo and thanking someone named Bernardo-- maybe thanking himself.

[Anonymous No.14507004]

>>14506836
pure kino. is the rest of liveblog like this?

[Anonymous No.14507111]

>>14507004
>Sam said 'Chinese Citibank.' I saw the sign he was talking about and said 'how do you know that's in Chinese?' Sam said 'What else could it be?' I said 'Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, any of those [squinty eyed racist face.'

>'They don't even know what they're writing, it's just... nobody knows, they're fooling us.'

[Anonymous No.14507147]

>Smoked five pinkie nail sized bags of crack using aluminum foil/dollar bill method that had been 'honed' by Mira and Sam, since the last time I did it with them.

>Something about biggie smalls. . . actually becoming smaller

>That it would be good if biggie had surgically reassigned his limbs to different 'outposts' on his torsos. I said 'would he have gotten a gastric bypass, to be smaller, if he was still alive, so he could be both big and small?' then there was an interesting silence.

>Pretty much solely concentrating on/talking about the process of smoking crack as we were doing it, saying like, sports commentary things.

[Anonymous No.14507153]

>Me finding/playing 'Schism' by Tool on youtube, Mira saying 'You guys never went through a Tool phase', me repeating 'I just like their videos' maybe three times, feeling a little out of control.

[Anonymous No.14507164]

>>14506703
Vulgarity as a substitution for meaning. You feel something reading her work, so clearly that means it has value. She's a literal attention whore.

[Anonymous No.14508239]

>>14506836
Damn, Meg straight fire

[Anonymous No.14508274]

>>14506836
But none of this is sincere- unless she, truly deep down, just jokes and teehees and silly observations
This is a complete 180 back to the kind of sincerity DFW thought we’d strayed from, only its worse because her wall of irony is in her deepest thoughts

Also it’s not funny at all

[Anonymous No.14508283]

>>14507147
ew, what? do hipsters really smoke crack now?

[Anonymous No.14508300]

>>14506836
But none of this is sincerity- she’s just creating ironic distance in her own inner soul, honestly kind of disturbing and sad
Also completely unfunny

[Anonymous No.14508334]

>>14508283
Polyamorous literati will occasionally smoke crack, ironically, or otherwise to help study specific characters

[Anonymous No.14508740]

>>14506679
>tennis
american badminton?

[Anonymous No.14509912]

>>14506836
>Papa John's commercial on TV.
it's shakespearean

[Anonymous No.14510173]

>>14508300
Sincerity and irony are meme nothing buzzwords

[Anonymous No.14510190]

>>14505458

[Anonymous No.14510191]

>>14508300
Yeah, in a way she's doing the opposite of Karl Ove Knausgaard. He looked directly at himself and wrote about it, whereas she can't bear the sight of herself and so hides behind layers of irony.

[Anonymous No.14510210]

>>14510191
i dont even think its possible for a modern extremely online type to catch sight of themself let along bear it

who the fuck am i? i'm a rootless wirehead. im a bunch of memes

[Anonymous No.14510214]

>>14510191
Dunno sounds like projection on your part

[Anonymous No.14510234]

>>14510214
I'm not a writer. How would I be projecting?

[Anonymous No.14510242]

>>14510210
Yeah, I suppose there's not really a coherent self to look at.

[Anonymous No.14510267]

>>14510234
Your own feelings about your self and the work onto it's author

[Anonymous No.14510275]

>>14510210
>>14510242
is the modern internet just a physical manifestation of schizophrenia? are its acolytes all insane by extension?

[Anonymous No.14510277]

>>14510267
I don't think so. I'm not a very ironic person, which is why Megan's irony always stands out to me so much. It seems like a defense mechanism.

[Anonymous No.14510556]

>>14510210
They can introspect, it would just be extremely painful

[Anonymous No.14510683]

>>14510277
>Don't be funny!
>Stop laughing!
It's ok, Anon. You're a buster.

[Anonymous No.14510697]

>>14508740
People on /lit/ are so stupid I honestly can't tell who is baiting anymore. Just in case you weren't being ironic, fuck off gook.

[Anonymous No.14510708]

>>14510275
I'd argue ADHD but it's definitely a manifestation of mental illness. I mean just look at the fact that no one can be honest about how much better it was because the late millenials and zoomers got on. That's some next level delusion.

[Anonymous No.14510714]

>>14510683
Irony in large doses isn't funny. It's just sad because you can tell how unhappy the author is.

[Anonymous No.14510720]

>>14510714
Maybe there's more to the person than jars of irony, Anon.

[Not that anon No.14510738]

>>14510720
But Boyle is the one who wrote a book ostensibly depicting sincerity but showed all she has in her is the jars of irony- are you not following or just being an idiot o purpose?

[Anonymous No.14510739]

>>14510714
>Irony in large doses isn't funny. It's just sad because you can tell how unhappy the author is.

Anon. Better take off those they live glasses before they get you. In all honesty there is no point in stating this. You are incredibly correct but that status quo won't have it. This is in part due to ignorance. Anyone whose life revolves around irony to some extent isn't capable of experiencing the joys of sincerity. They'd probably scoff at that notion in the same way a coffee drinker has no idea how life is internalized much differently without any caffeine. They are addicted or at the very least habituated to something emotionally stunting.

[Anonymous No.14510793]

>>14510556
For you

[Anonymous No.14510811]

>>14510277
You see you're falling into the trap of seeing irony as state of being rather than a social and literary device. Your difficulty in reading Boyle's work is a limitation of your own and not the authors.

[Anonymous No.14511670]

>>14510811
Oh no, literary traps!

[Anonymous No.14512044]

>>14510697
In what fucking environment do you live in to think that maybe "american badminton" exists

[Anonymous No.14512101]

>>14506562
I think they're the ones that have aged the best, especially considering the rest tend to be about pop culture or the poor people he seems to look down upon

[Anonymous No.14512102]

>>14505458
>>14505546
DFW was probably a sexual predator, based on stories I've read.

[Anonymous No.14512106]

>>14512102
Was he a predator or just autistic at relationships?

[Anonymous No.14512108]

>>14512044
who are you quoting

[Anonymous No.14512189]

>>14505525
F.N. I found "there is none" to be a troublesome dependent clause, especially when the subject is a nondiscrete noun such as 'context.' Recalling a letter to the editor in the Sunday Times that my mother read to me when I was seven, I considered that "there isn't any" would make a better clause, but thought better of it.[*] After all, is not the most common and clearly-understood usage an automatic candidate for the best usage?
*The letter that my mother read me was a brilliant two-sentence summary of the then-ongoing Woodstock festival[**]: "In a sea of dirty youth there is much to be found. If one searches specifically for promise, however, he will see that there isn't any."
[**]Officially called the Woodstock Music & Art Fair by organizers.

[Anonymous No.14512617]

>>14510556
For you

[Anonymous No.14512761]

[Anonymous No.14512878]

Holy fuck, an order came through. Now I just need to get the books! (please be patient)

[Anonymous No.14512971]

>>14505458
No one has asked the obvious questions: where would Professor Wallace join the conga line? Would he simply become the latest caboose on it's trailing terminus until a subsequent person came along and elected to become themselves the new caboose coupled to the conga serpent by the merest gracings of the Professor's denim hips and then the imparting of some DJ incanted transitive conga energies fusing the new one with the Professor's choo-chooing and cha-chaing, fully vertebrally integrated, centipedenal, a collective, additive locomotion? Or would he wait for a hanging or drooping arm to signal some where's in the chain where the professor could stitch himself as a plasmid does to an annulus?

[Anonymous No.14513302]

>>14507004
Unfortunately not, but it's a different work with its own feel. There's a greater variety but also a cohereing pattern you skip upon so often.

[Anonymous No.14513364]

>>14507153
Friends sound interesting.

[Anonymous No.14513614]

>>14505546
Doing his best Harold Bloom impersonation.