Let's try something. Take this test by accepting the following challenge, and I will reveal later in the thread who failed and who passed (i.e. we'll reveal the plebs):
Here is a list of 10 ostensibly great works of literature. 3 of them don't belong. Which three works are they?
>The Tunnel by Gass >Invisible Man by Ellison >A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway >The Waves by Woolf >The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner >Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace >The Unnamable by Beckett >Finnegans Wake by Joyce >Lolita by Nabokov >Underworld by Delillo
Prove you're not a pleb, Veeky Forums.
Protip: If you think there is any configuration of this list that IS NOT pleb, then you're even more pleb than the people who get this wrong.
Gabriel Peterson
Gass, Woolf, Nabokov
Nathan Robinson
Infinite Jest Underworld The Tunnel
Charles Wright
Oh dear.
Please proceed to r/books
David Fisher
bump
Julian Rivera
>A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway Old man and the sea > Invisible Man by Ellison up for debate but not my cup of tea >The Tunnel by Gass meh
Asher Collins
Invisible Man The Waves The Tunnel
Cameron James
IJ Unnameable Fins Wake
Ryan Powell
>tfw OP is a pleb who didnt read more than three of the books he listed
John Jones
The two first ones are correct
Joshua Hill
Ugh I hate that fucking gross material design shit good started.
Sometimes I wonder whether design - say, Apple's design - is actually good in some abstract sense, or whether it's just a tiny bit of aesthetic talent keeping it from being too ugly, combined with a vast marketing machine that actively tried to train us to think that Apple design is good in the same way that the music industry realized they could train people to like boring crap by just playing it over and over again (familiarity is most of affinity desu). And then I see Google take a shit, and everyone copy thst pile, and realize that it's clearly the latter and not the former case.
Ian Bennett
>good started *Google
Gavin Walker
>>A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway >>The Waves by Woolf take these out for sure >>Invisible Man by Ellison >>Finnegans Wake by Joyce Haven't read these. All others i consider great works
Anthony Reyes
I haven't read the tunnel either but my copypasta skills were faulty.
Ryan Parker
Only woman and darky on the list, and of course their work doesn't belong. Typical Veeky Forums.
I'll guess the third one. It's gotta be FW.
Blake Evans
>Only woman and darky on the list, and of course their work doesn't belong
You're right.
>I'll guess the third one. It's gotta be FW. Bingo.
Congrats. You were the only patrician intellectual in this thread.
Aaron Bennett
Invisible Man The Waves Infinite Jest
I'd keep The Waves but I get why you'd leave it out compared to the rest.
Michael King
see You both win
Angel Brown
A Farewell to Arms for sure cause Hemingway is not in this league, he is sticking out like bruised thumb
Infinite Jest for sure too cause dfw sucks nuts
And the third is a toss up... I kind of want to say underworld just cause I've never been impressed by Delillo and that's the only other one that really makes sense to me as not belonging. I mean I've never read Gass but his hype comes from the right places, and I've never liked Beckett too much but unlike Hemingway he can stand as both a social and a literary peer to others on the list
This is the correct answer btw, with all the conditions and ruminations included--if op says something else he is in fact the pleb
Gabriel Green
>if op says something else he is in fact the pleb OP has been established as a pleb as soon as he said it was Woolf and Ellison. Harold Bloom wouldn't pass this "test".
