solarpunkwobbly:spiritflame1:toweroflondon:kaylapocalypse:thighetician:The second girl at least read
solarpunkwobbly:spiritflame1:toweroflondon:kaylapocalypse:thighetician:The second girl at least read the book to confirm that it was shit, she even had Capote on deck as backup. Chick 1 is just lazyNope. Girl 2 saw that Girl 1′s absolutely accurate analysis was being shut down just because it wasn’t stated in an intellectual way (in spite of its validity). So Girl 2 reinforced Girl 1′s opinions in solidarity and made sure that it was absolutely clear that Girl 1 was factually correct. WITHOUT taking credit for her observations (”kim is right” instead of “Actually, kim”) Girls supporting Girls. Girls not letting other girls be treated poorly.Not only that, but the book is only 47 pages long. When she read 30 pages, it’s not as though she only read one chapter. She read a majority of the book.This dude was on drugs for three weeks at wrote a tiny ass book? Bro I’m constantly sober and i write three times as much if I’m motivated enough wtf As much as Kerouac was a misogynistic pretentious asshole, On The Road is about 300 odd pages long, I’ve no idea where the “47 pages” bullshit came from but it does confirm neither of you have read it. The first 100 or so pages are boring wank and then it starts to get interesting.Truman Capote’s just another pretentious wanker, the sort of guy who’d argue that computer artists aren’t “real” artists, whatever that means. When Kerouac wrote on the road he was a nobody expecting no fame messing around with writing styles on his typewriter while high as balls, I don’t think he gave a fuck what writers like Truman Capote would make of it, I think he was writing for and about his friends.I sort of feel like the whole point of the Beat Generation was to write for yourself and your friends with no regard for literary rules or expectations, and if other people don’t like it? That’s fine, because it’s not about creating a product to be marketed, sold, and critiqued - it’s art without a thought towards consumption by an audience, created by and for the artist. Which is why a lot of people think it’s shit, and maybe by literary standards it is, but it is that way because it was created without a care for literary standards. Kerouac didn’t foresee or want his “spontaneous prose” to be analysed in schools, the whole point was that it was spontaneously written by him the way he wanted to in the moment, it was never designed to be subjected to that sort of scrutiny, and it’s so much more enjoyable if you just take it for what it is, acknowledging that.Which is why teaching it in schools and methodically dissecting it is bound to produce this sort of reaction from students. -- source link