>reading fiction

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

>>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.

>>8873947
Sturgeon's law

fiction=cool, fictional stories
realism=boring RL stories

pick one

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

>>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.

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

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

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

>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

>>8873936
Ebin. Simply ebin.

>>8873949
this

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>>8873936
>reading nonfiction