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Leave this board and never return if any one of these apply to you:
>you read any form of genre fiction
>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 don't have 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
>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
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>He's never read Gene Wolfe
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>>9653744
Reminder that plebs have more money and happiness than you
Punk ass bitch
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>>9653747
But they're not living the good life
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>>9653748
Yes they are, they don't compare their tastes to those of dead men from dead cultures and dead classes every opportunity they get like the Patrician does. The serf's joy is the sorrow of the lord and whatnot, eh? Cheerio, lad.
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>>9653755
Jesus lrn2tone
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>>9653758
I'll tone your fucking face with my fucking steel-toed boots, you fuckin queer
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>>9653765
Only tone you gettin near is the line on your hospital bed, faggot
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>>9653775
FUCK OFF YOU FUCKING FAGGOT I'LL CALL THE FUCKING POLICE
FUCK YOU
I'M NOT IN THE MOOD FOR YOUR TONE POLICE SHIT
FUCK YOU
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>>9654019
I'm waiting on hearing back from literary agents and I can't sleep
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>>9653744
Ok, good bye
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everybody not masturbating reading zeus' rapes should go too. please, stay away from porn, cum in the classics.
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>>9653744
Pretentious Prick
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>>9653744
Like the new intro, anon. More apt.
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>>9653744
I am a a bigger snob than you. Genre like Herodotus, who notes neurian werewolves and griffens, shakespeare with prospero's magic and the ghostly witches of macbeth, spenser's faerie queen with a fucking robot, sir thomas more's eutopia and swift's gulliver's travels with made up worlds and in the latter case talking horses? Until the 18th century almost everything was genre - most of hawthorne is genre. Read keats's endymion and tell me that shit is not genre. All of the Greeks are. You need to know more about history, obscure philosophies , and ancient religions to understand wolfe's soldier books, which no one does but me, than some bullshit by phillip roth about jewish masturbators, where all you need is an understanding of woody allen. I am a thousand times more elitist than all of you and most of the great works in history are clearly genre in feel, though most modern practitioners except wolfe are shit.
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>>9654270
thank you
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>>9653744
<mfw all of these apply to me
Is there still hope for me des? :3
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