>tfw all literature is essentially either self-help or pornography

get real deep in that classic pomo shit from the late 70s and early 80s man

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>>8694881
>Not liking pity parties or pornography

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>>8694883
and then what

>>8694886
Finnegan's Wake.
Sure, it's half self-help, half pornography, but it's so dense you'll barely pick up on it.

>>8694881

Anything sucks when you approach it with such a reductionist spirit.

Look at fiction as a subjective experience, like life itself, rather than trying to categorize it and assign rational purpose, like a discipline.

>>8694881
content barely matters anyway, it's all about the words. might as well find the most aesthetic self help.

>>8694925
If aestetic is what you're going for, you might as well throw away your prose and start reading poetry