1. @jbthazard I actually think there’s a slew of writers—Joyce, Pinter, Beckett—that nobody reads because they enjoy or like them. The point of reading these people is more an intellectual status signalling game among high tier intellectuals and academics.
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4. As far as “fiction” goes, I prefer people like Henry Miller or Orwell. People who were basically writing their lives so that you can’t tell whether it’s an essay or fiction really. I’m convinced people who are Joyce fanatics or whatever don’t like him.
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5. It’s an intellectual exercise in showing off. There are lots of opportunities to spin papers off it. You don’t get the same things around Miller or Orwell because what you see is what you get. There’s little opportunity for status signalling with them.
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6. It’s pretentious and phoney. I say that as a pretentious person. Poetry is ultimately king, because it conveys the truth with absolute concision and all novelists are degraded poets.
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