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8873936 No.8873936 [Reply] [Original]

>reading fiction

>> No.8873947

>>8873936
Basically all the literature around all time that has been written is fiction

>> No.8873949

>>8873936
Poetry and fiction are read by lofty men of refinement and sensitivity. Non-fiction is read by proles who think only in terms of utility.

>> No.8873952

>>8873947
Sturgeon's law

>> No.8873953

fiction=cool, fictional stories
realism=boring RL stories

pick one

>> No.8873964

>>8873953
>>8873949
non-fiction = genuine scholarship and honest exchange of thoughts and experiences
fiction = make-believe and confabulation

>> No.8873980

>>8873964
Rorty dedicated his life to so-called genuine scholarship, and you know what he said near the end? He wished he had memorized more poetry.

>> No.8873985

>>8873964
How is function not an honest exchange of thoughts and experiences, and to that end, how is any literature an exchange?

>> No.8873992

>>8873980
He was a postmodernist, his last moments would be filled with regret and despair no matter how much poetry he'd have memorised.

>> No.8873993

>>8873980
I'd say the same if I was an analytic hack.

>> No.8875501

>implies fiction can't be intelligent and moving
>has never actually read a nook but knows only how to type up shitposts

wow a new low for you, anon

>> No.8875514

>>8873936
Ebin. Simply ebin.

>> No.8875516

>>8873949
this

>> No.8875548
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8875548

>>8873936
>reading nonfiction