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2013-11-26 03:21 4308001 Anonymous (on_the_road_book_cover.jpg 358x600 44kB)
i'm about to read on the road what should i expect?

7 min later 4308012 Le Epic Fucking Cunt
A boring as fuck thinly autobiography filled with faggoty hero worship. If you are like reading up on the beats or something it's a decent read i guess.

1 hours later 4308131 Anonymous
>>4308001 Sincere unpolished and rambling story telling about the adventures of a smart but naive young man in the 1940s who sets out to travel across his country with and without his friends, with a particular emphasis on one of his new friends who seems to represent something amazing and precious to him and in certain ways an answer to the dreary, cynical intellectualist social climate he's used to among the New York City bohemians.

1 hours later 4308147 Anonymous
>>4308131 I don't see how you deduct that he's smart at all. and Dean is more the answer to a lack of a father figure rather than to intellectual types

1 hours later 4308149 Anonymous
>>4308001 dude travels country(+mexico) searching for the american dream

1 hours later 4308154 Anonymous
>>4308147 He's obviously smarter than your average person. Regarding Dean: >All my other current friends were >"intellectuals"-Chad the Nietzschean anthropologist, Carlo Marx and his nutty surrealist low-voiced >serious staring talk, Old Bull Lee and his critical anti-every-thing drawl-or else they were slinking >criminals like Elmer Hassel, with that hip sneer; Jane Lee the same, sprawled on the Oriental cover >of her couch, sniffing at the New Yorker. But Dean's intelligence was every bit as formal and >shining and complete, without the tedious intellectualness. And his "criminality" was not something >that sulked and sneered; it was a wild yea-saying overburst of American joy; it was Western, the >west wind, an ode from the Plains, something new, long prophesied, long a-coming (he only stole >cars for joy rides). Besides, all my New York friends were in the negative, nightmare position of >putting down society and giving their tired bookish or political or psychoanalytical reasons, but >Dean just raced in society, eager for bread and love; he didn't care one way or the other, "so long's I >can get that lil ole gal with that lil sumpin down there tween her legs, boy," and "so long's we can >eat, son, y'ear me? I'm hungry, I'm starving, let's eat right now!"-and off we'd rush to eat, whereof, >as saith Ecclesiastes, "It is your portion under the sun."

1 hours later 4308162 Anonymous
read it and find out

1 hours later 4308171 Anonymous
>>4308154 >He's obviously smarter than your average person based on what?

1 hours later 4308176 Anonymous
>>4308171 people are dumb

1 hours later 4308181 Anonymous
>>4308176 i remember being 13 too

1 hours later 4308182 Anonymous
>>4308181 13 year olds are extra dumb

1 hours later 4308185 Anonymous
>>4308182 I can tell

1 hours later 4308191 Anonymous
>>4308171 read the fucking book. Do you want an infograph or something?

1 hours later 4308194 Anonymous
>>4308191 I read it, he goes around whining and asking his mom for more money. where am i supposed to deduct he's smart?

1 hours later 4308204 Anonymous
>>4308194 >deduct I think you've got a while to go there, sport.

1 hours later 4308217 Anonymous
>>4308204 oh look the typical answer of someone who's going to flip burgers for the rest of his life. either point out where or how can we arrive at the conclusion that he is smart or shut your fat mouth. it's pretty simple. you dig?

2 hours later 4308220 Anonymous
>>4308171 You're deliberately being a cunt, aren't you? Take Jack Kerouac's autobiographical self-insert narrator protagonist literature and philosophy reading, university going, prose and poetry composing character and tell me he does not display more intelligence than the average American.

2 hours later 4308228 Anonymous
>>4308220 adequate writing ability =/= smart he also blows his money and calls back to his mommy like a retard for more, this despite his mom is the only one with a regular job working her ass off

2 hours later 4308232 Anonymous
>>4308228 ultimately binge drinks himself into death living with his mom because he can't cope with life and the fact that he thought that driving around with a conman and doing drugs will result in him having an epiphany about life. if anything i'd say he's dumber than an average american

2 hours later 4308233 Anonymous
>>4308228 fuck off you endlessly contrarian retard. >>4308001 its a pretty nice book, but overrated to an extent, as all beat literature is.

2 hours later 4308234 Anonymous
>>4308233 a true classic of /lit/, at least other boards are capable of venturing outside the general hivemind and dealing with opposite viewpoints. are you going to tell me off to /pol/ now huh?

2 hours later 4308236 Anonymous
>>4308228 being a sensible pragmatist =/= intelligence It's his aunt by the way. And a character can not be said to lack intelligence merely because you disapprove of his life choices. By any means, OP should expect a smart protagonist, because he probably isn't as hell-bent on finding him stupid as you are.

2 hours later 4308237 Anonymous
>>4308234 Its not an "opposing viewpoint". You are pointlessly causing an argument because you have aspergers syndrome. Stop shitting up the board.

2 hours later 4308238 Anonymous
>>4308232 >implying Sal dies in the novel

2 hours later 4308244 Anonymous
>>4308236 >And a character can not be said to lack intelligence merely because you disapprove of his life choices. Yes it can, especially when those choices are dumb.

2 hours later 4308245 Anonymous
While on the topic of discussion, what did you guys think of the movie? I thought it was mostly terrible, but I dont regret having seen it if you know what I mean?

2 hours later 4308247 Anonymous (interracial-love.jpg 1536x1043 208kB)
>>4308228 >adequate writing ability =/= smart Kek, I recognise your style. You were the guy saying that Hitler's paintings have more artistic merit than Pollock's because 'they resemble real things and are harder to paint'. You should actually go back to /pol/.

2 hours later 4308254 Anonymous
>>4308247 No that was the other guy. I did contribute in that #reckage too bad the thread got deleted, nobody could prove why those shit paintings weren't worthless, just angry sperglords shouting muh meaning

2 hours later 4308257 Anonymous (Woodstock.jpg 700x480 104kB)
>>4308254 Seems like you /pol/lacks share a dialect then, probably from the perpetual circle jerk you engage in. Please go.

2 hours later 4308274 Anonymous
Some of the best prose, albeit surrounding a story that might not be very interesting to everyone. A second part that maybe isn't as interesting as the first one but you'll keep reading because of the flow.

2 hours later 4308284 Anonymous
>>4308237 >raise argument >someone disagrees, asks you to clarify your position >"lol wtever contrarian, gb2/pol/ stormweenie" For humanities students /lit/ sure sucks at debate and critical thought.

2 hours later 4308294 Anonymous
>>4308284 You took a minority part of somebody statement and took it to pieces while rejecting all evidence to the fact. Thats not discussing, fuck off cunt.

2 hours later 4308297 Anonymous
>>4308274 it was the other way around me i thought the second part was better

2 hours later 4308300 Anonymous
>>4308294 what evidence was there presented of him being smart again?

2 hours later 4308309 Anonymous (blue-poles-number-11-1.jpg 1370x583 424kB)
>>4308300 There's no such thing as evidence of the intelligence of a fictional character, silly boy. OP asked what to expect, someone answered, you came up whining that he's dumb because he has suboptimal financial management and that there is no objective proof of his intelligence. There's nothing to gain here.

2 hours later 4308320 Anonymous
>>4308294 >You took a minority part of somebody statement and took it to pieces while rejecting all evidence to the fact. What was that evidence, exactly? You (or someone else) just highlighted an exerpt from his book. That's it. He might be able to right, sure, but is he smart because he can shit out word salad?

2 hours later 4308323 Anonymous
>>4308320 >write Fug.

3 hours later 4308339 Anonymous (Moving-the-goalposts-300x2402.jpg 300x240 29kB)
>>4308309 >uh, uh, he was fictional all along lol! Pucture related, it's you.

3 hours later 4308349 Anonymous
>>4308339 I described the protagonist of On The Road in my first post in this thread, so yes.

3 hours later 4308350 Anonymous
>>4308339 >>4308320 >>4308300 just stop. Please. Im not responding to you because its clear you have a mental disorder of some kind. Polite sage

3 hours later 4308361 Anonymous
>>4308350 >he's smart >How do you know? >HE JUST IS HE WROTE A BOOK U R RETARDED lol ok chief.

3 hours later 4308364 Anonymous
>>4308350 you do realize there's several people replying to you? I'm the guy who started it and I haven't written anything since >>4308300

3 hours later 4308376 Anonymous
>/pol/ raids mods pls help

3 hours later 4308378 Anonymous
>>4308376 >bawww dissent, differing opinions, mods help!

3 hours later 4308379 Anonymous
>>4308376 >someone doesn't agree with me >and I have no arguments mods pls help

3 hours later 4308387 Anonymous
>>4308378 >>4308379 >deliberate and systematic reactionary trolling >differing opinions nope mods help!

3 hours later 4308401 Anonymous
>>4308387 stop responding to him. He very clearly has a mental disorder. sage

3 hours later 4308410 Anonymous
>>4308387 >questioning orthodoxy (i.e. this author is smart) is reactionary >calls others retarded lel

3 hours later 4308485 Blueberry
>dean who the fuck is dean >not reading the original manuscript

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