This place needs fixing. It keeps getting more and more mediocre.
Please leave and never return if you agree with any of the following;
>you read any form of genre fiction >you think fantasy, science fiction, detective fiction, young adult fiction or horror are literature >you barely know your classics >you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level >you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected >you speak a single language >you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton >you read for the plot >you read for entertainment >you rarely read nonfiction >you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy >you do not at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer >you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon >you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon (muh african authors) >you mostly read contemporary literature >you believe 'the author is dead' >you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology >you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point' >your rarely read poetry >you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity >you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work >you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism >you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities >you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight
This is a board about literature. You're not welcome here. Please take your plebeian garbage to /b/ or reddit, where you will find both a demographic and a general atmosphere more consistent with your tastes and your culture.
Also, what is the patrician book you are reading right now?
David Morales
>what is the patrician book you are reading right now?
You first. Plus i want a thorough analysis or i'm taking away your patrician cred.
Tyler Perez
I'm not reading anything right now.
Tyler Evans
I want to Fuck this girl.
Ryan Evans
How often do you post the same thread with that same picture? Like once a month?
Grayson White
Great thread.
I'm currently reading Winesburg, Ohio. I'd offer some analysis but it would be premature. Off to read for an hour or two!
Jonathan Long
I don't match with any of those
Adrian Price
Not realising there is infinite beauty in everything and all human creations even the 'lowest' among them, let alone 'genre fiction', but even stuff like infomercials and radio jingles are precious fragments of Being through which you can commune with the Absolute
Jaxon Ramirez
>>you believe 'the author is dead' please leave, authorial intent is the most plebian of assertions
Nicholas Sanchez
t. americuck
Nicholas James
Why is Delillo still posting?
Ayden Morris
He is an Arabian ventriloquist.
Carter Anderson
If you had taken an entry level semiotics class, you'd realize how mistaken you are.
Andrew Fisher
I agree with all of these except >reading for plot In good literature the rise and fall and interweaving of arcs is of core importance to the work. You cant tell me the late climax of Hamlet and the early climax of Macbeth isnt an important aspect of the plays. Though of course reading only for plot is for plebs.
Isaiah Barnes
I fail in:
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy >you do not at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>Also, what is the patrician book you are reading right now?
Don Quijote.
Isaac Harris
>semiotics
hahaha who fucking cares my man
Andrew Cruz
if you have ever made a thread like op if you have ever strongly had a thought like op
then you are craving hard for attention in your life, an attention lack that only increases your burden. if you dont find a way to properly vent it it will come at you sooner than later.
and no, making these threads wont help.
Henry Jenkins
>>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy pretty pathetic desu
Benjamin Clark
>blowing smoke
Lincoln Gomez
>tfw no Novalis husbando
Julian Green
>semiotics >philosophy tonight's a keknight
Justin Perez
Is the purge.
Bentley Ward
Semiotics is a subcategory of epistemology, you moron.
Cameron Green
Unpopular opinion incoming: I wish all of these philosophy fags would go to Veeky Forums so that people enjoy talking about their reading and (gasp!) read for pleasure could have a decent time.
Jace Watson
edit: people *who enjoy
Lucas Howard
>he thinks any above-superficial enjoyment of any literary work is possible without a deep philosophical and critical understanding of the culture around him
Austin Sanders
>still here replying around semiotics
...
>semiotics
Blake Garcia
I fucking hate students
Dylan Walker
>he thinks that finding pleasure in reading is a waste of time >he thinks people are too dumb to think about literature without reading the entire damn canon first
John Brooks
when the dog farts
Dylan Nguyen
...
Evan Lee
I unironically agree with this
Samuel Johnson
>above superficial Found the pleb. U gotta go back sonny boy.
Kevin Hall
>you think fantasy, science fiction, detective fiction, young adult fiction or horror are literature
your move OP
Isaiah Scott
The fact that this is the best place to discuss literature on the Internet is sad
Cooper Garcia
That's a pretty spectacularly bad choice if you want to convince OP SFF/horror can be literature.
Nicholas Jones
It really is difficult to wrap your head around. You look around, it's shit, you search for other places, and they're worse.
It's like finding out you're God.
Connor Russell
Frankenstein is literally literature
Angel Miller
Really shit literature.
Oliver Long
I agree with you totally OP. But what do you mean by >>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
I have the latest scholarly editions of the texts, are you talking about "adaptations"?
>Also, what is the patrician book you are reading right now?
German language textbooks...
Eli Fisher
It's gotten too busy, I don't know why all the retards decided to flock here, but the posting rate has gone up like 5-8x in a year. All shitposters and memes.
I just stopped coming here, only rarely to make my own threads.
Which I would highly suggest, there's so little of value here (and on Veeky Forums). Why spend your time with trolls and fools?
OPs list is an impressive feat of autism though. I don't understand what would you drive you to care enough to type out all that shit for free. It's not even funny, just kind of sad.
Brayden Wood
Because it's fun to chitchat about literature? That's all there is to it. you holier than thou bitch.
The reason posting rates have gone up is that /v/ and /a/ and the rest, typically hobbies for teenagers, tried to be serious instead of lowly gamers so they go to /pol/ and Veeky Forums and Veeky Forums, and make threads about shitty politics gossip and Le SJWs and tiptop their tippy hats all over this place as the self-anointed saviours of Western Civilisation and have a great load of circlejerks here in between gaming and anime and porn and building an intellectual reputation at r/The_Donald and on Steam and YouTube comments sections.
Nathaniel Morgan
God I want to suck Novalis von Hardenberg's Ofterdinger so bad.
James Myers
Very sad.
David Brooks
"Modern translates" with modern words.
Nicholas Baker
>Please leave and never return
How about you? Pretentious pseud.
Ian Martin
Good luck having more then 5 people left on this board.
also thinking Aeschylus is relavent. WEW LAD.
Grayson Sanders
the author is dead (top pleb opinion if you don't agree desu) my greek tragedy knowledge is weak (but growing) reading a lot of contemporary lit is fine and to be encouraged (as long as you have a good grounding in older works)
rest is pretty solid, and magnificently autistic so i approve
Joshua Hall
This is what pseuds think makes an intelligent or patrician person but none of these retards live up to their own standards, and they're wrong anyway 95% of the time
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy >you believe 'the author is dead'
These two cancel each other out; a solid grounding in philosophy will lead you to the conclusion that the author is dead
Tyler Reyes
tell us what it's like to be this insufferable
Cameron Lopez
You forgot the most important one >you think the amount of partners woman had matters
Ryder Long
>your erect penis exceeds 4 inches in length
Gavin Hill
enjoy plowing that nasty hoe pussy of that gf of yours bro. I'm sure she was a nice girl otherwise and would make a great mother : ^)