/lit/ - Literature

Leave western civilization to me.

How should we go about purging the reactionary elements from /lit/? I'm not sure how much longer I can tolerate the /pol/ drones. This issue needs to be addressed for the sake of our board's quality.

I wonder if his face is stuck in a perpetual squint.

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Isn't that Adorno?

They're known for being deliberately obtuse, and it just doesn't seem like there's a whole lot of payoff even if I power through them. I'm open to being convinced otherwise, though. The infamy of the movement and its works are putting me off a little bit, but maybe I'm just ignorant.

Leave Barthes to me.

What do you think about obscurantism /lit/? Is it designed to protect knowledge from the uninitiated, or to make an author sound smarter?

I personally believe the latter.