/lit/ - Literature

I'll end my summary with a passage from page 49:
> In the dark, Eddington slowly reached under his stained blazer. He felt the book. He couldn't believe it - he was holding a prohibited item. It had an orange cover, and a little penguin stood below the title.
> "How did people learn? Before L'Académie?"
> "I don't know. Books, maybe?"


I would love to get some reflections from my fellow Waldun scholars here on /lit/. Have you read L'Académie and what did you think. Has R.C. Waldun managed to his masterpiece The Learned Disguise?

Book recs for someone who loved don quixote?

Can i join the discord chat?

>>18863868
>>18863871
Also, get off my board, waldun buddy striver

What are double rods? Is that a reference to the rods and cones in the eyes, therefore whoever has double rods has twice the ability to see in black and white, ie, letters for reading?

>>18863871
>a little penguin
Bravo Waldun. Even in the YA dystopian world of the Brave New 1984 Games, Penguin books remains, an unassailable edifice of learning and knowledge that transcends fictional boundaries.

Best noise blocker earphones that doesn't hurt like a bitch after a long time?

What a hack

I read the first 10 pages. It's not as bad as The Learned Disguise, but not much is. It's still incredibly badly written. I genuinely think any teenager writing a short story in school would write in better English than Waldun does. I can't be bothered to read any more because the story is just so dull and unoriginal, it seems like a shitty rip off of Fahrenheit 451 mixed with any popular YA book. I hope some good memes come out of it from any fellow Valdunchads who can finish this shite.

A thread died for this

>>18863868
>The earbuds did never, and will never, work for him because his Modern Renaissance mind is too original.
This is the brilliance of Waldun's insight as a social critiquer. Clearly this is something the more enlightened of us have seen everywhere: everyone always has their earbuds in and they're clearly being programmed to follow fads and not be intellectual, but for some of us it just doesn't work. We can listen to music and not get brainwashed. Finally there is someone to stand up for us and say to the world "hey, I'm not like you, and that's okay."

But seriously, this might actually be brilliant, in the same way that Twilight is brilliant because it shamelessly indulges teen girl fantasies. So what exactly happened to the kids who resisted the dress code? Are there any negative consequences to disobeying Le Regime? I hope it's social exclusion. It would not shock me to discover that the worst thing Waldun can imagine is getting ignored.

>>18863868
Man ffs. Couldn't you wait until the entire thing was done being scanned before making this thread? You're just drawing attention away from when SneedAnon uploads the whole thing

>>18863916
It's fine, unlike Youtube in which you can't overwrite videos, you can overwrite files in Google Drive. As I'm scanning more pages, I just reupload the new file and the link remains the same

>>18863929
You are doing God’s work anon

Damn that's crazy

so yeah she's got really— a bit— sensitive G-spot— C-spot because apparently I don't believe her— I don't believe Mr C or any of her past boyfriends and ex husbands— they haven't really hit her G-spot with their dicks. They were more focused on their own instead of focusing on her which— that's my focus... yeah it is. But still have Magi-chan and Crystal incest fanfics. We're both using care and caution... there was— there was a time where I just gave her comfort and talked with her... and we just crashed out slow and steady... and I approached her positively by her making the first move. She wanted to do it and... yeah. Ugh, I don't remember exactly... it was her first move by my approach... well I forgot what exactly— what terminology I used. I approached with care and caution... and I was direct and firm with her for the most part. I don't remember exactly what she said but... I think she was partially confused at one point... but then she came around obviously... with the more approaching that I was doing with her. But yeah it was simple... lip to lip kissing... but yeah it was actually good and it felt right. Well obviously I remember a long time ago that I even had dreams where I had... Where I had sex with her obviously. Yeah that's right... the Oedipus— I would say it was satisfactory... it took a while, a few tries, to— it was also... she's very understanding about the whole thing as well... I was direct with her— still direct and honest with her... and I made sure that I honestly made sure that I'm never going to propose marriage to her at all... because we're already daughter and mother.

>A gentle wind blew through The Regime.
Does The Regime refer to a country or a government? Is this like saying a gentle wind blew through France? Idgi. I think I'm being filtered this is too bigbrained for me.

His editor must be laughing to the bank.

Is book Ada his love interest or is book Ada the avatar for his real life sister, Ada?

>>18863868
I can't hold it in anymore Waldunbros, this shit is too funny

How the fuck does a person constantly brag about reading and actively try to emulate the greatest writers in history STILL manage to write like a retard that can’t even grasp simple grammar? I’d mock the shitty plot but it would be like looking at a house that was built on sand and saying how shit the windows are. How can you fail at copying people?

Riddle me this: Why is Fahrenheit 451 celebrated as a classic, but everyone is laughing at the pretentiousness of L'Academie, when both of them have the same premise? Protagonist finds the prohibited items of books and hides them in his house and reads them

>>18864333
So this is what it looks like when someone reads for the plot

>How many times do I need to teach you this lesson, old man?

>>18864333
>pretentiousness of L'Academie
It is the opposite of pretentious, it is basically a watered-down amalgam of the most generic dystopian YA novels available on the market.

Truly the Hideaki Anno of our generation

>>18864430
I can't wait for his review

The buildings are "grey", the seats in the subway are "beige", I'm reading a dystopian novel by RC Waldun.

>>18864366
You anon made me kek

its just esl YA

>>18864220
>Waldun is into incest
Great minds truly think alike

>The regime
>the complex
>the box
Nothings more infuriating then this tacky YA pragmatic language. Waldun couldn't even spend a night coming up with actual unique names for the apparatuses of his society, instead taking his inspiration from what a mentally retarded boy would call a train after he forgot it for the fifth time. "The box" Fuck you Waldum

>>18863868
holy shit i thought this post was a huge joke but ITS NOT! thank you waldunchads for the best book i've ever read

>>18863877
Madame Bovary

>>18863885
>double rod

>>18865473
That makes no sense

>>18865669
you double-roddin’ me right now bruh?

>>18865847
I wanna get double rodded guys. Black rods if possible.

wow... these words... make me feel things i have never felt before!
The Author really infused The Literary Work with The Depth and The Mystery that only the Art can manifest
waldunchads.... you won....

>people complaining about the grammar
Soulless. You wouldn't rewrite the room because the English was so shoddy, would you? Mark my words, Wulden-esque is the next movement, classified by choppy and awkward English juxtaposed by westophilic pretentiousness. It's a post-ironic statement about our information rich yet poorly educated superficial society, where we look east but listen west; where we scorn the learned for the mistakes of the ignorant. Right now, we live in a Wulden-esque society, where sitting on a train not on your phone with earphones in is weird; where free thoughts are criminal and academia is dark.

>>18865334
It really is a summary of the first three chapters, kek

Grammar is nitpicking. The real issue is that he has no skill as a storyteller and has no story worth telling.

>>18864366
I don't get the problem with reading for the plot. Could explain?

>>18865900
>Sorry, what were you saying? I was just listening to this audiobook called "L'Académie", it's really good.

>>18865924
/thread

>>18865927
If you consider only consider the plot, Moby Dick is nothing more than a story about a grumpy man on the hunt for a white whale.

>>18863868
Considering he's basically a child, still in university, the level of writing isn't that bad. If this is what he's producing now, he will probably write something worth reading in 5-10 years. Plus his social media will help him get an agent and trad publisher.

>>18865935
Walden cannot be fully appreciated in audio form. Every typo, every incorrectly used semi colon, and every errant comma can only be truly experienced in written form

This is worse then most serials on royalroad or webnovel. But that's because they're high quality. And if he was a true artist he would know whether they were good or bad. Just like how he ignored all of Australian literature just to larp as a neo beat.

>>18866085
i don't know, the grift is so transparent and his lack of self-awareness is so blatant that it just feels like he will continue to ape whatever "aesthetic" he likes for a few months until he gets bored with it and never develop any style nor any personal ideas nor anything worth telling, endlessly recycling whatever he mindlessly consumed recently

I've only skimmed the first few pages so far, but I'm shocked Waldun produced this. As >>18866099 said, usually he's aping the style of his most recent literary preoccupation (e.g., Keuroac and the Beats or Sedaris/Lebowitz style humor). For Waldun to churn out bog-standard young adult is pretty uncharacteristic of him.

Unless, of course, he mostly reads junk YA and his whole persona is a bigger LARP than we can even begin to realize.

waldunbros...

>>18863868
waldunchads this is fire

Hey guys, R.C. Waldun here. I’m very happy to see all the excitement around my new book L’académie, but I must ask you all to refrain from scanning and sharing illegal copies. Piracy hurts all writers and creatives. The paperback edition can be had for as little as $14.99, and the low-priced ebook will be out on September 1. I hope you get the chance to check it out.

Thanks!

>>18866099
I don't think adults here are going to offer advice since every adult suffers and wants others to suffer (facetiously and carefully chosen language). But I would say to Waldun if you had any good philosophical or lifestyle idea you wouldn't put it in a YouTube video for one hundred dollars. I won't explain why it's dumb but hopefully most adults understand why.

>>18863868
Has anyone else pre-ordered this book from amazon besides /lit/ fags? How the fuck did waldun fuck up this though? Having your paperback be released before the official date

>>18866270
wtf? i can't believe Literary Publication isn't a serious publisher.

>>18866270
Ever heard of viral marketing retard? In all seriousness, aside from Waldumb's subscribers—which most comprise of teenage girls who spend more time picking dark stocking than reading—/lit/ is the homebase for Waldun "fans". I hope we don't bully him into submission and he gives up; I genuinely hope he keeps writing books and making videos because they are amusing in how bad and pretentious they are. Hell, I don't even want Waldun to fail. If he somehow shaped up, sharpened up, shot up and became an actually competent writer, I'd actually feel happy for him. But no doubt, he is nothing but a lolcow for /lit/ considering how dogshit very bad not so good this book is

I have met a few asian dudes that are some of the most genuine people out there, but also a whole fucking lot of them that have this exact same hollow "high brow" posturing to them.

El senor waldun ser apreciado

>>18866210
Sorry Waldun, I was just so excited to read your latest. I didn't mean any harm. Please send me your address so I can send you the money. Happy writings fellow scholar, Excelsior!

>>18866270
Amazon has a pre order function, but Waldun only chose the option for the ebook, not the paperback, because ... he forgot? I don't know, I just straight up bought the book the normal way, no pre-order and it got delivered to my house the next day.

I remember that he and Jay were going to sell the paperback on the streets of Melbourne for a couple of weeks before allowing the book to be released to a worldwide audience. I wonder what happened to that plan. I know covid restrictions are strict in Australia but surely they could've set up virtual readings and book fairs

Don't judge the book just yet, the editor has not finalized everything

>>18866496
It's released, retard.

>>18866534
By mistake, there might be a recall to fix last minute errors.

>>18866402
That sounds so stupid but also fitting for them.
The delivery might have been a mistake though. For some reason book releases are fucked up all the time and someone gets it early. Remember the big harry potter spoiler wars?

>>18866377
Don't know why race has do with anything

>>18865977
I consider the plot and I consider the prose, characters, etc., I wouldn't say I read for plot but I don't see a problem with focusing on the plot. Surely only focusing on it would lead to a very shitty experience.

This is kino as fuck, if I may be excused for my language. Waldunchads we're here and we're here to stay

This meme has gone too far. Don't you guys realise you are creating a monster?

>>18866124
>Unless, of course, he mostly reads junk YA and his whole persona is a bigger LARP than we can even begin to realize.
Didn't he write a poem about how he likes to read a boring book (James Joyce) and a book he actually enjoys at the same time?

>>18866124
Filtered

>My anger made me stronger inside. This was when I formed my ideas that academia should be outlawed. It is the only way to make the world a fair and just place. If I can't have it, I will destroy it. -My Learned World
What is he planning?

>>18863868
Is this for real? Holy fucking shit, this is so funny. Did he seriously think this was good?

Blake, you've known from the start how bad Waldun is. You're deluded. Also, doxxing me was a mistake. I would return the favour only if you weren't a minor.

>>18866699
Sounds familiar, unfortunately most of his poetry was taken down back in November or so when the Waldun lolcow threads kicked into overdrive.

Regardless, I'm shocked he published this considering how at-odds it is with his current image as "neo-beat-dark-academic-humorist" or whatever it is he's trying to convey.

>>18866759
You will never, never, never, never, be a woman.

>>18866759
What?

>>18864333

It is precisely because they have the same plot that it is the subject of mockery. This child who spends his days extolling the magnitude of his 'dark academia brain' in all its profound originality is capable of nothing bar producing a virgin cocktail of YA dystopian trash, with no original additions of is own.

There-besides, within the premise, in Waldun's case, lies the suggestion that he sees himself in a position analogous to that of Plebbington. I.e; a lone, original genius caught up in the dreary milieu of stifled thought and mediocrity.

>>18863868
any theories as to who Ila-Rose is? does Waldun have a gf?

>>18864333
Bradbury could write

>>18863868
>That's when he realized, Academia was rather dark here in L'adademie.
He can't be fucking serious.

>>18865924
>Grammar is nitpicking
ESL cope

>>18866838
https://www.instagram.com/_ilareads_/
they "buddy read" Ulysses together

>>18866850
no way

>>18866877
Holy shit, I'm not even kidding, I fucked her last time I was in Melbourne a couple months ago. LMAO

Okay guys, what actually is "dark academia"? Who coined the phrase?

>>18866377

Indians are definitely, absolutely the worst on this front. I have never met an Indian in my life who has managed to refrain from congratulating themselves on their own intelligence whilst lacking any semblance thereof, in any genuine capacity. Midwittery at best. Each and all of them are either bold-faced mediocrities lacking in self-awareness, or, their sense of esteem comes from having shittily rote-memorised the trappings of Western learning.

>>18866940
>what actually is "dark academia"?
the new renaissance
>Who coined the phrase?
pinterest

>>18866936

She lives in Sydney

>>18866936
how was it getting Waldun's sloppy seconds?

>>18866979
>Implying she wouldn't make a 900km drive to fuck some /lit/ browsing cretin

>>18866850
He writes his book the same irreverence for any craft that you would a youtube script (dropping in memes and shitty lil in jokes). Or maybe he thinks he's like Joyce making literary references that would go over the head of the common man.
Either way this particular quote just takes it over the edge for me.
I've never read learned disguise but fail to see how it could be worse than this.

>>18866979
Matched with her on Tinder in Melbourne ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
>>18867000
Mediocre. Nice enough girl though. Had no idea she was even in the same circle as Waldun (no mention of him or seeing someone else whatsoever), I only started browsing these threads out of sheer boredom last week kek.

>>18866850
he can't keep on getting away with this

>>18867025

daaaaaaamn she must've come down to visit him/grift on him or some shit. Nice job dude.

>>18867056
sounds cool, he gives you free shit just for posing as one of his white friends.

>>18867000
>how was it getting Waldun's sloppy seconds?
Waldun is too nice for her, you just know she sees him as a brother

>>18867291
I thought Waldun is gay

>>18867299
He desires intimacy and emotional connection in a general sense.

>>18866850
kek he really said it I thought you were trolling

>>18866800
Quadruple negative says Trans Rights!

>>18864323
People like Waldun remind me that writing takes a certain innate quality.

>>18867571
its true

you either have it or you don't most people can't even write email

I'm reading now and won't stay in this thread to avoid spoilers. So far, my favourite part has been when Waldun uses the Scooby-Doo rotating bookshelf trope. Usually the trope makes sense because books are innocuous, but in L'Academie books are completely illegal and would immediately draw attention. And yes, Waldun makes it clear that the room goes back to how it was (books exposed) after Eddington flees.
Thanks again for uploading.

can someone explain what the fuck is going on here? I'm a regular and everytime I see one of these threads I just ignore it thinking its some faggot chink author shilling his own book, but it seems like either you guys actually take him seriously or he's some sort of lolcow-ish autistic obsession with him. Either way, everyhting about this faggot is retarded, why are you guys giving him this much attention???

>>18867866
R.C Waldun exists so you know you're not as bad him. It's reassurance that you're not the worst writer out there,

>>18867866
>some sort of lolcow-ish autistic obsession with him
Basically this
>Why
Because we are making fun of him to feel better about ourselves, a cope of shorts with being bad writers.

Its like watching CWC without the incest.

>>18867866
He's genuinely a nice person, unlike 99% of literary pseuds. There's a certain naive, innocent charm to him that you never see in anyone over the age of 8. He also has a neotenous face and chubby cheeks, which makes people want to protect him or fuck him

>>18867900
>>18867866
Quite the opposite. "Waldun exists to convince you that you are not Waldun". Simply put, he's the twisted mirror of /lit/. In Waldun, we see all of our greatest fears and anxieties under a microscope. His lack of self-awareness, his lack of skill, his phony "love of reading", his delusions of becoming a great writer, his pseudointellectualism. We scoff at his self-styled "dark academic" aspirations as little more than a phase, an attempt to compensate for a lack of personality with faux-intellectualism. Until it hits you. He's /lit/. He exposes us.

To add insult to injury he has more fame and recognition than 99% of the posters here will ever receive. The twist? We probably gave him a large boost in the early years, at least in regards to growing his channel algorithmically. In a very real way, we created him. And the more popular he grows, the more we're exposed for the frauds we are. So what do we do? Make Waldun threads, laugh at Waldun, and curse ourselves in private. There's no turning back.

>>18867953
Tl;DR, he's pointing at us.....

>>18867900
>>18867903
>>18867945
>>18867953
seems to me like ironically liking him is just making this retard more succesfull and egotistical, why aren't you guys bullying him and shit?

>>18866955
They're starting a fucking revolution ok? The only movement you're in charge of is personal and fecal.

https://youtu.be/H1ZpAiw3vio

>>18867997
> ironically liking
we genuinely like him. he's our Waldun

>>18868019
There's a lot of planning going into it!

https://youtu.be/tzAqf00sFII

>>18868019
Everyone talking about Waldun when Jay The Author is the one the scholars will be pouring over in 100 years:

https://youtu.be/EO4xBXhwOi8

To fuck or not to fuck Waldun
That is the question

>>18868019
This is like a fuckign MDE sketch LMAO.

>>18868019
>>18868027
holy shit, that jaden guy is embarassing to watch. i have the exact same jacket

>>18868042
This >>18868033

They have a lot in common with the beats. The beats "hung out in Chinatown but never got laid." Jay hangs with a Chinaman who'll never get bae.

Jazz is about the notes you don't play.

>>18868019
this is really gay

>>18868019
will this happen to me too if i watch kill your darlings too many times

>>18868086
What's so gay about hanging out in front of H&M in a "frenzy of madness." You're just jealous of their "pure fire, pure life!"

>>18868088
The best part is when Waldun accepts a money transfer for his rent.

>>18868055
You should ask him to sign it for you.

"[American Psycho] is a bit...pseudo."

https://youtu.be/G9egz4rDrCU

>>18868119
>had an excel spreadsheet... but i lost it
LOL

>>18868141
Wait til you get to the part where he flexes editing a government makework manual.

>>18867953
well said

>>18868033
Checked. When the cringe hits just right. "All gas no brakes."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=054LrjYwLeA

>>18863877
The rest of Pierre Menard's work, of course

just got this bad sonofabitch in the mail today, gonna make me some cocoa latte and dive into its prose ASAP

>>18868544
What happens if Waldun actually ends up selling the distribution rights?? Who'll be laughing then?

>>18863868
Why do people keep trying to rewrite We?

How does his book compare with bestselling YA fiction? Despite being mocked on here, might it not still be a huge success among his target audience: YA readers (i.e. adult women).

>>18868820
the comfy pepe countdown guy is going to feel like a prophet

>>18865873
I kek'd really hard, anon. Thank you. Not enough joy in the world.

>>18866210
Tbh, $15 bucks for a piece of History? I'm very tempted. I'm never going to read it but I kind of want it. Might be worth millions some day.

>>18863868
I know that this is inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. But, has anybody mentioned how shitty the cover design of this book is? It's almost that dreaded corporate faceless profile picture art. And the motif of the earbud wires in the font just looks so amateurish. Though from the looks of this thread that probably should be the least of his worries.

>>18869207
Yeah it was mentioned a few Waldun threads back. Honestly, I like it. Far from the best cover I have ever seen of course, but certainly not bad.

>>18868199
Kek

>>18869207
The L'Academie book cover is done in the same style as Learned Disguise's. There are a lot of """in-jokes""" in L'Academie that crossover to the LD universe. I'm still undecided as to whether they're good or not, but it's at least consistent. What does annoy me is LITERARY. Publication's logo. It looks like something I made in Gimp and I'm not a drawfag

>>18868199
based

>>18863877
Moby Dick

>>18869346
>There are a lot of """in-jokes""" in L'Academie that crossover to the LD universe
That surprises me since it seems Waldun has pretty much disowned that book at this point. Perhaps the connections are just a byproduct of his extremely limited imagination lol

Sneed here. I finished uploading the book, but the file is really big (100 MB) for what it is, a 300 page pdf of text, at least I think it is
Full scanned L'Academie book
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vOsrf55Wc_Vg3awyrT7Qbha6GQ0mNWL0/view

I ran it through a free pdf compressor but it ended up looking really grainy and hard to read. Can someone run it through Adobe Acrobat Pro's file compressor or something similar?

>>18869366
I think that Waldun hasn't read-read (ie, not reading the Wikipedia summary of) that many books.

> In joke #1
For example, there's an interaction in Learned Disguise that goes something like this
> Derek: How do you do?
> Arthur: How do you do?
> Derek: Wow Arthur!! You are so smart! Most people say "I'm doing well" in response, but you know that the correct response is to repeat "How do you do" back to the original person. Golly gee we are two very smart dark academian intellectual people

In L'Academie, the same thing happens, I don't remember the character names but it goes something like
> Character 1: How do you do?
> Character 2: How do you do?
> Character 1: Wow you're the first person to know that you're supposed to respond with How do you do instead of I'm doing well. How are you so smart???
> Character 2: oh teehee, I learned it in a book

> In joke #2
In Learned Disguise, Gretel calls Arthur a worm, short for bookwork. In L'Academie, another little girl calls Eddington or someone a worm because they like reading books

> In joke #3
In Learned Disguise, Waldun talked about historical humor (in a now deleted video https://drive.google.com/file/d/1SNzUsYixqoZ8gkev78RpvHgEPd9saVKx/view)) in the context of funny stuff that happened in this book that he read about the French Revolution. One of the scenes in the book was about some French peasant chasing a goose, and he copied that event in the Learned Disguise when Gretel chases a stray goose

All throughout L'Academie, Eddington regurgitates the same facts about the French Revolution that Waldun talked about in his video. Every time he says fact, other characters will respond with a variation of
> That's amazing, Eddington! How do you remember such amazing things?
> I read books
> you're so intellectual, I can never remember what happens in books, you are so smart to be able to read books and understand them

Unfortunately, L'Academie has many of the self congratulatory traits as Learned Disguise. The premise of my book review was that Waldun uses the self-wanking passages as a cover for his own insecurities. After briefing reading some passages during the scanning, I'm in an eye rolling mood, but I'm going to have to get back into a more charitable mindset because I do want to be kind to him while I work on the LD review

>>18869403
here are some of the in jokes

>>18869370
https://mega
.nz/file/Ft4yxSob#dXnDhYcQaGPo3z0istF3QtLRK2esRTQQd56QU-gRxa0

this one’s 23mb :-)

>>18869435
Has anyone ever called someone a worm or moth instead of a bookworm or bookmoth? Especially in an endearing way.

>>18867953
r/Im14AndThisIsDeep

This isn't really an in-joke but it's something that Waldun always says
> you should see plays performed, don't just read them, they are meant to be experienced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fi7sCvw7RcU&t=200s

one thing I've noticed throughout many videos is that Waldun always says don't analyze books, just enjoy it, experience it, take it in. He says it in the On The Road video, the Shakespeare videos, the Joyce videos. hmmm. You'd think a lit major would like analyzing books and using their thinky thinky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjf-qCXlrIg

>>18869462
thanks so much man. I added it to my Waldun Drive

he sure knows how to write dialog

This reads like some faggot scratched the surface of foucalt's philosophy and decided to make yet another big gabamint dystopian novel. I'm guessing this subgenre is so attractive to new pseuds because it makes them think in a few decades they'll be remembered as the second Orwel.
>"omg we're literally living in Waldunian times"
I bet this retard jerks off to that dream every night

>>18869346
it's the freaking linkin park logo lmao

Kyrie Eleison

I think Waldun has a fantasy or a fetish of kissing and snuggling with a blonde girl under a tree in a forest, the same thing happens in both Learned Disguise and L'Academie

You know how in 1984 Big Brother erased/changed history and language to keep people complacent? Well why does The Regime bother to teach the students real history if it's incomprehensible to them anyway? I'm only half way through and the answer so far is so the students can become data inputters but that doesn't make any sense; L'Academie already has the data.

>>18869503
Waldun actually wrote his high school senior thesis on Foucault

>>18869473
can't imagine worm being a term of endearment

ITS ALREADY OUT?

>>18869542
you should buy his book, now on Amazon
:^) pirating is unethical

https://www.amazon.com/LAcad%C3%A9mie-R-C-Waldun/dp/0648963209/

>>18869535
yeah the blurb doesn't even make sense, also note the difference between the Amazon description and the blurb on the book

Amazon
>A recent breakthrough in neuro-programming allows students to learn anything simply by wearing a headset for a few hours a day. This new technology gives rise to L'Académie, a district dedicated to educating the citizens.
Blurb
>A recent breakthrough in neuro-programming allows students to learn anything simply by wearing a headset for a few hours a day. This new technology gives rise to L'Académie, a school in District-E, dedicated to educating the citizens.

Why would such a technology "give rise" to a brick and mortor educational institution? Can't people just learn on the go and as they please?

>>18869489
>>18869435
Since all Waldun seems to write are self-inserts in his fantasy situations, rather than in-jokes, the certain mannerisms and attitudes characters appear to have are probably just coincidences because they all bleed into one and other.
Waldun = Arthur = Eddington.

Just like how Chris-chan = Sonichu. And the comics themselves are fan fiction about himself.

>>18869527
almost all of Waldun's stories have some strange female relationship in them. I don't want to sound cliche, but he really does give off "sexually frustrated virgin" vibes imo

Holy hell the extent to which /lit/ is analyzing Waldun is just insane. I’m just scrolling through this thread with a big grin.

His sister in the plumber story is named Ada.
https://rcwaldun.com/blog/terminator-plumber

There's also a dark haired female character named Ada in L'Academie. I think one of the bad guys says that Eddington and Ada grew up together. Did he insert his own sister into his novel?

>>18869568
Maybe there's only one place with wifi or internet

>>18869615
Oh wait that doesn't make sense either because people can download their lessons into their own personal hard drives or use CDROMs if they're hard up for technology

>It was a warm sunny day in April, and the clocks were striking noon. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled tightly into his government issue plaid scarf, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions, though not quickly enough to prevent a piece of rubbish from blowing in behind him. No problem, the janitor would get it later.
>Winston promptly flung himself on his face. The proles were nearly always right when they gave you a warning of this kind. They seemed to possess some kind of instinct which told them several seconds in advance when a rainstorm was coming, although the rain was supposedly not able to be predicted in advance. Winston clasped his forearms above his head. There was a roar that seemed to make the pavement heave; a shower of rain drops pattered on to his back. When he opened his eyes he found that his gray blazer was slightly damp.

there’s an interesting group dynamic here in the lit pub trio. this jay character has near-chad looks but is arguably the most blockheaded of them all. a man with a fork in a world of soup. soft shite extraordinaire “jaidyn” looks like he’s in it for the underage arthoe pussy, which he most likely gets in droves as long as he acknowledges that the slamming is taking place on stolen oogabooga land

waldun would be the easy and obvious one to pick on, since the white man (no matter how cucked) always has an innate disdain for the servile ESL chinkazoid. but he’s the guy with the big youtube channel, so their numb tongues basically have to work his asshole in shifts

this three-man literary movement is not merely cringekino for basement dwellers; as the chinese century descends upon us, it’s the defining gesamtkunstwerk of our time

>>18869403
Based. Your YouTube channel is funny

>>18869570
> rather than in-jokes, the certain mannerisms and attitudes characters appear to have are probably just coincidences because they all bleed into one and other.
> Waldun = Arthur = Eddington.

Yeah ... that actually makes a lot more sense than my theory. God damn it, it would've been really cool if L'Academie were the same universe of Learned Disguise but in the future, or Learned Disguise was a book that everyone in L'Academie read/got piped into their brains via headphones

>>18869536

there is no such thing in our country

>>18869819
I miss vintage Waldun
https://youtu.be/A6-jVahF4xk

>>18869842
>make a video incorrectly explaining a concept
>realise later you were wrong
>only acknowledge you were wrong in a reply to a comment
>keep the video up anyway
valdun can be a cheeky cunt sometimes

>>18869842
wow this is the most i've ever seen him actually engage with a text, even if on a somewhat superficial level.

>>18863868
>Wherever he goes, he is constantly reminded of the tenants of The Regime:
>> Knowledge is Power
>>18869842
>>18869874
Kek I guess The Regime saw his video

>>18869874
This is the power of Waldun. He doesn't shy away from renouncing his past self because he isn't afraid of what lies in front of him despite it being hidden, dark, and scary to do so.

To be honest, I tought Waldun was just a misguided young kid but after reading his new novella its pretty clear he's a perfect midwit with too much ego. I cant understand putting out stuff because you have to put out something if you want to be an artist, even if its not that good (it will never be good enough for you) but the stuff he publishes on his website is not even worth of a middle school ''what you did last summer'' text assignment, that whole story about the bird pretending to be dead was embarassing. He has written 2 books but if you look at his website, most of his short stories barely reach one page long, he shows no interest in writing short stories and jump straight into writing a novel as if he desperately wanted to be taken serious and overly estimates his own capabilities. How can you publish stuff this bad and insipid when you have supposedely read Gravity Rainbow, Ulysses and a bunch of other western classic novels? I don't even think he reads these books anymore. Waldun you have lost my last shred of simpathy this fiasco, I will be unfollowing you on Instagram and unsubscribing from your Patreon and Youtube, I also want you to paypal me the $5 I payed you for that blowjob you gave me on Barkeley Street last summer, it was bad anyways and you used your teeth a lot, I only said I liked because I didn't want to hurt your feelings

>>18869949
what the heck???? delete this post please

>>18869949
no refunds

>>18869633
>“jaidyn” looks like he’s in it for the underage arthoe pussy, which he most likely gets in droves as long as he acknowledges that the slamming is taking place on stolen oogabooga land

>>18869633
MY SIDES

I really need to see Waldun wearing a japanese schoolgirl uniform while he opens his legs and spreads his buttcheek for everyone to see his anus.

Do you think that is brown and hairy? Or its cute and pink?

>>18863877
The Idiot, Gargantua, Madame Bovary

>"Innocence, once lost, can never be regained; Darkness, once gazed upon, can never be lost."

am i crazy i swear this isn't actually a milton quote

>>18870215
it's on goodreads, it has to be real

>>18863877
Anyone read Rushdie's Quichotte? Is it any good?

>>18870215
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?64383-Please-Help!-Source-of-Quote-Believed-to-be-JOHN-MILTON-PARADISE-LOST


Apparently its a commonly misquote but I haven't read Milton so I can't confirm. Wouldn't it be hilarious if the very first quote in Waldun's was from DC comics and he attributed it to Milton out of commom misconception? Can someone help us out here? I'm diying if this is true

>>18870241
it'd be quite waldunian for him to just go to one of those websites for quotes and either look up ones related to innocence or just take a popular one from paradise lost

>>18869370
he spent two years on this
that makes me so sad

>>18870241
I checked out my library's e-copy of Paradise Lost and did a search for the word "innocence". I got 12 results, none of which look like Waldun's quote. I only read all excerpt of PL, when Adam and Eve got kicked out of Eden so maybe there's somewhere else to look for quotes

>>18870241
>>18870254
it's definitely not a paradise lost quote but searching through paradise regained/samson agonistes is getting me literally nothing. there's not even a similar quote or a line i can see that could have been easily misquoted. waldun has wulduned himself on his very opening pages

>>18870296
these are the chapters in the ebook. I think Waldun got the quote from Goodreads. I know that Waldun has often complained how difficult Paradise Lost has been to read, and he's never claimed it on his "books read" list

>>18870316
>he's never claimed it on his "books read" list
Is there a public version of his list?

>released early
>already pirated within a day of early release
>unoriginal concept
>shit writing
>table of contents with numerical chapter titles
>accurate comparisons to earlier, shunned work
>exposed as incel
>dedicated to woman who fucks /lit/cels
>opening quote wrongly attributed
WE CAN'T STOP LOSING WALDUNCHADS

>>18870254
>>18870296
>>18870302
>>18870316
I have also searched on Milton's work and I have found many instances of Innocence and Darkness but nothing that even resembles Waldun's quote, the full quote gives nothing.The quotes websites dont give a source and the only instance where I found the first part of the phrase and a source was with Neil Gaiman's Sandman. Does Neil answer fans on his social media? Maybe he could give us an answer if he is receptice and someone here has a twitter account, just ask if he took the quote from Milton or if it is from his own doing

>>18870326
He's only talked about them in videos but I can compile a list off the top of my head

> claims to have read
James Joyce: Portrait of an artist as a Young Man, Ulysses
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Shakespeare: Hamlet, Macbeth
Pynchon: Gravity's Rainbow
Proust: Swann's Way
Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451
Kafka
Hemingway
Foucault, Satre, Descartes, Nietzsche
some non fiction book about Da Vinci
stone non fiction book about the French Revolution
the Beat poets

> started but did not finish
DFW: Infinite Jest

> possibly tried to read
Iliad, Odyssey

> definitely did not read, complains that he tried but couldn't understand
John Milton: Paradise Lost
James Joyce: Finnegan's Wake

Via Google: Laurence Sterne in a sermon from the 18th century wrote that opportunity if "once lost, can never be regained". There's also a Christian book called Wisdom of Holy Scripture from the 19th century which says "innocence once lost, can never be regained" in reference to man's explusion from Paradise. The second half of the quote can only be found attached to the first, attributed to Milton and used in amateur novels.

>>18870427
Bros, has Waldun outwalduned himself by fucking up the very first page that opens and sets the tone for his book? It's The Learned Disguised all over again but with added layers of sophisticatio. Waldun, thanks for never dissapointing me!

Can someone get confirmation from Neil that the quote is his or where he got it so we can laugh even louder?

>>18870460
Google tells me that in Gaiman's Sandman: Season of Mists (1992) his Lucifer character drops the "innocence once lost" line. I doubt Waldun got it from an old comic book, more likely he found it on google images when searching for "profound quotes".

I believe Gaiman was probably himself referencing the presumably fake Milton line. He doesn't include the second part about darkness or whatever.

>>18870413
>'finished' Gravity's Rainbow
>'finished' Ulysses
>couldn't finish Infinite Jest
he's full of shit.

>>18868199
based, checked, borgespilled

>>18869497
it's physically fucking painful i swear to god aaaAAAAAAAAAAAAHH

How does he have nearly 200k subs but less than 15k views per video?

>>18870565
that's usually what happens when you have 1 or 2 vids that go viral. You get an inflated sub count.

>>18870565
Yeah, he should be getting 15k-50k minimun but he rarely surpasses 25k. My bet is that Waldun's primary audience is of teenagers enamorated with Dark Academia and ''reading'' but they only read shitty YA novels and his channel is mostly about writing and western classics, thus he only has the aesthetics to get views. Also the fact that teenagers are always changing their tastes and so a lot of them probably grew up from their Dark Academia phase and just didn't bother unsubscribing. If he made a review on the latest hot YA novel for girls he would get a sudden burst of views, believe me

If only waldun had started with the greeks, he would not be this dumb

>>18870339
All of those things are positive for waldunchads

/lit/bros, I need your energy.
I'm on Chapter 13 and it's becoming unbearable. It reads less like a novel and more like a CBS drama or some TV shit like that. Everything has been cliche and contrived, and the dialogue is atrocious.

>>18871183
Could you give a short summary of what has happened?

>>18870413
>the Beat poets
What the actual fuck? They all larp as le beatbois but they haven't read The Road or Naked Lunch?

>>18871193
From beyond where Sneed left off >>18863868
, not much.
Eddington meets a group of Rouges (Ada, Fred, Joe) who have a hideout where they read books. He reads a few sentences of Walden and then goes "mad," writing down things on paper.
He has recurring dreams where a girl flirts with him while he reads the Iliad. There is also a mysterious trench coat wearing cliche named Archer who Eddington is obsessed with finding. The loop is:
>"I need to find Archer"
>Finds Archer
>Archer tells him virtually nothing
>Archer says "I have to go"
>I need to find Archer
Now he wants to know what happened to his father (who is probably Archer. There's only 6 characters, after all), all the books the Regime took, and the dream girl.
Also Fred just got kidnapped.

>>18871193
>>18871309
We're still doing this on page 174.

>>18871206
See >>18868019

Also:>>18868033

>>18871309
Kek, thank you

>>18871346
Pure orthodoxies!

THE MAN OF HISTORY

>>18871309
Is it worth a marathon reading sesh or should one skip it anon?

So you're telling me that Waldun wrote a novel about how reading books is superior to "information ingestion" that's prefaced by a quote he obtained not thru reading but via a google search.

>>18871492
He is brillant

>>18871347
>Sheltered boys are trying way too hard to become what they aren't
Fucking kek
Well at least they should move to NewYork or hitchhike across Australia, away from the meekness of middle upper class urban liberal Australia and support of their caring parents if they want some vague authenticity for their larp. The vlogs they make, the cafes they visit, the cameras they use, the post processing on their visual content, the clothing they wear, the friends they have, the viewers they attract, the places they visit all scream sheltered middle upper class tumblr forced faggotory which is completely opposite to the gritty americana amoral degeneracy of the beatniks. In one video Jay was spouting some cliché humanist bullshit about making the world a better place by having conversations with strangers or some shit, kek. Also they all clearly look very uncomfortable on camera like they are aware of their posturing and if the camera wasn't they wouldn't be doing such forced things without being drunk as a bum.

It wouldn't surprise me that the reason they don't smoke cigarettes is due to fear of getting cancer.

sorry waldunbros, i started translating l'académie to spanish but after 4 pages my brain can't take waldun's literary genius anymore
after doing it i feel like i don't know how to use a comma anymore. thanks for that, waldun.
https://pastebin.com/xE8AQ4aa

>>18871547
Romance is hanging out with your friends in front of H&M and talking about a homeless person you noticed while drinking a $7 coffee.

>>18871596
Me duele el cerebro. Bien hecho, hijo.

Should we continue rewriting L'academie?

>>18871483
Well, there's a pretty hot scene where Waldun gets whipped.

I have optimzed the pdf so it's 1/3rd the size and OCR'd

where can i upload it anonymously?

>>18871703
catbox

>>18871703
afraid of Waldun Death Squad, bud?

>>18871742
We will find you

>>18870413
He halfway claims he has read all of ISOLT but he stated that he is "most familiar" with Swan's Way

>>18871720
cool, thanks. here it is. should be easily searchable...got it down to 16mb from 100mb.

https://files.catbox.moe/n1l2zh.pdf

>>18871950
>ctrl+f blazer
>104 matches
what did he mean by this

>>18870413
>finished Gravity's Rainbow and Ulysses
>Didn't even attempt Dubliners

>>18871987
https://youtu.be/TyTh_F0rc-A

>>18871987
it's a dark academia staple
it's also an easier way to identify characters without having to give them any personality or other remarkable traits

I've finished L'Academie. AMA

>>18872432
Did it surprise you in any way? Is it worth reading the entire thing?

>>18872448
>Did it surprise you in any way?
The biggest surprise (and disappointment) was how heavy handed the editor was. A lot of what makes Waldun's writing entertaining is lost.
>Is it worth reading the entire thing?
No. It's 1984 written by a moron. You already know what's going to happen and if you don't find the horrible pacing funny it'll just annoy you.

>>18872432
why

>>18872432
How original it is compared to other dystopic YA novels? Is there anything original or is everything derived from other books?

>>18872448
>>18872512
HOWEVER, if you are a Waldun scholar it is obviously a must read. Personally, I cannot wait to discuss the Christian themes weaved throughout the text and whether or not they were intentional.

>>18872513
I love RC Waldun
>>18872520
I've never read a YA novel but there is NOTHING original in this book. Formulaic, uninspired, cliched, TV slop.

>>18872432
Was there any moment that was genuinely good or unique, or was it all mediocre?

>>18872432
Did you see any progress in his writing or is the quality the same as in his other proses?

>>18872595
Unique, no. Good... also no. I'd say mediocre to bad throughout. The editor did a lot of heavy lifting.

>>18872512
>The biggest surprise (and disappointment) was how heavy handed the editor was. A lot of what makes Waldun's writing entertaining is lost.
This is what made me stop reading it. It's not even charmingly bad like Learned Disguise, it's just good old fashioned bad.

>>18872654
Nothing can be as awful as The Learned Disguise so yes, there is improvement. But it's far less soulful. If I was going to recommend the books...

For teenage girls:
>L'Academie
>Passing Tales
>The Learned Disguise

For Waldunchads
>Passing Tales
>The Learned Disguise
>L'Academie

>>18872705
Exactly. I hate to keep harping on it, but the editor did too good of a job turning trash into passable trash.

>>18872679
Is the whipping scene fappable? What about the torture sessions between Eddington and the Regime

>>18872512
>>18872578
>>18872679
>>18872705
>>18872734
double-rods detected

>>18872725
Why do you recommend Passing Tales so highly for waldunbros? I was thinking of getting it but his voice is so dorky it's hard to listen to.

>>18872753
>Is the whipping scene fappable?
no
> What about the torture sessions between Eddington and the Regime
The Regime doesn't torture Eddington. Fred tortures Ed after blaming him for the abductions of Ada and Joe.

>>18872778
>Why do you recommend Passing Tales so highly for waldunbros?
>his voice is so dorky it's hard to listen to.
Are you even a Waldunchad? The glimpses into Waldun's boring life and how he sees himself is pure Waldun kino.

>>18872432
What was the Regime's ultimate end goal for making the L'Academie school where they headphone brainwash high schoolers and banning books

>>18872831
It is not elaborated on further than "order and control" or something along those lines. It doesn't make sense. The kids learn facts from a data centre to later get jobs inputting facts into a date centre.

only on chapter 3 but why are there cafés if you can't speak on the street and certain words will get you v&'d. like what is even the point of fraternizing under such strictness

>>18872921
Good question.

Why did Clark Elieson say that L'Academie was so interesting that even though he had planned on reading Ulysses, he didn't because he couldn't put L'Academie down?

>>18872956
waldun's dad wired him $1,500

>>18872956
he wants to get a free camera or something from waldun

>>18872947
Waldun always hangs out in hipster cafes because it makes him feel like a real writer so he probably just threw it into the story

Don't worry bros, Waldun and Jay's next book is edited by Jaidyn and will be kino.
pic related is the only Waldun excerpt released so far. It follows Rick Walkow, a man exactly like Waldun except older and poor.

>>18873012
whoops

>>18872947
he was unironically "planning" his new literary movement in a café, so he probably romanticizes it as a place for creative endeavors and, more importantly, exchange of ideas with other intelligent people like it's the late 19th century or something

>>18873024
>coffee
>café
>coffee
>shop
>english
AAH Someone call the coffee-schizo who made that based thread yesterday AAAAHHH I FEEL SICK

>>18872956
I... uh... I put Tolstoy on hold for Robin

how can the man of history always be at the café, sipping a coffee? doesn't he have a JOB in this world where everyone's a cog? is examining eddington after each session at l'académie his only task?

and by the way, how can eddington and TMOH be allowed to discuss things like the intricacies of the regime, the purpose of the plant and last year's unrest? considering >>18872921

>>18873024
>A waitress convinced Waldun to order black tea ever day
>Waldun was a "bookseller"
>Waldun spent all his time in a cafe
>Waldun got an email from Jay
So Rick Walkow is Waldun without the rich Asian parents. Got it. Wonder why he wrote them out kek

>>18873051
holy shit me too

>>18873104
Man of History's rich Asian mom and dad give him an allowance

>>18873104
>how can the man of history always be at the café, sipping a coffee? doesn't he have a JOB in this world where everyone's a cog?
The Man of History is in his final year at L'Academie and has yet to be assigned a job outside The Wall. Otherwise, more good questions.

>>18873117
A kindred Waldunchad :')

>>18873141
What exactly is beyond the wall

>>18872432
Is the ending definitive, or could we possibly be looking forward to The Academy 2?

I waited months for a bootleg farenheit 451? Fuck my life

>>18873161
Other city hubs and wasteland. Somehow nature took over. It's not explained.
>>18873162
We will not be looking forward to L'Academia Deux

>first page in
>someone’s already wearing a blazer

>>18873191
Is anything explained well

>>18873208
Unironically no

>Chapter 1
>The indicator turned green as Eddington crossed the road in a straight line.
This implies he was crossing the road before the indicator changed, no?

>>18873024
Waldun is beyond your pathetic takes. You have to get into the deep symbolism that he is using to code his repressed homosexuality.

A woman at a cafe--the object of desire causes our man to become self-aware. But what is he aware of? That he should deisre but doesn't desire--she moves him from a light drink to a heavy drink. A call to adventure that the feminine forces upon him.

The real object of desire is Jay. (On the level of authorial biographical analysis--scholars will be talking of the tension represented in this line, openly criticizing friend and confidant' Jay The Author).

All things aside, the sweet repression of emotion Waldun gives us via a delicate use of irony is masterful. The grittyness of the symbolic drink ('long black') is palpable. Long Island black tea...does he drink to come to terms with his relationship with Jay? https://youtu.be/H1ZpAiw3vio

so this nigga is part of the l'académie universe

>>18873264
This is Waldun Phase 2. They're building up to Virginity War.

>>18873252
At 2:03 in the video you linked Waldun talks about a book called My Struggle. I wouldn't have expected Waldun to be interested in Hitler's works.

This Jesus line made me laugh. Comes out of fucking nowhere.
Also, Eddington's father is the villain, in case you weren't convinced he was Waldun yet.

>>18869478
go back to >>>/reddit/ fag

>>18873314
poor papa Waldun. All he wanted was for his son to be normal salary man and not a prissy larping writer dandy

>>18871596
Basado

>>18873307
That's clearly a reference to Knausgård. He's throwing shade at Jay's literary tastes by defining his influences; all the while talking to Jaiden about him as Jay weren't there.

Bump

I’m convinced waldun makes every thread about himself here. There’s nothing interesting enough about him to warrant this much discussion.

>>18873324
by the looks of the post he replied to we're already there

>>18873410
He's absolutely fascinating. He's like Elliott Rogers if Elliott channeled his energy into becoming a literary dark academia white modern Renaissance man instead of shooting random people

>>18873410
i don't know, it's like watching tommy wiseau documenting the entire process of writing and shooting the room while also sharing his views on aesthetics, film, art and life in general

>>18868027
did these nu-beats full of fire and madness just get themselves a consultant to help them plan their 'literary movement'? lol

>>18868027
also glad to see that the spirit of colin andrew yost lives on

>>18873324
r/woooooosh

>>18873410
its like chris chan but chinky

>>18872432
can you give a general plot summary of L'Academie? I don't mind spoilers

>>18872432
How much do Waldun's Asian daddy issues affect the novel

>nausea gives eddington nausea
bravo waldun!

>>18873438
>>18873450
>>18873550
Nobody would say these things seriously. You guys are all Waldun.

how can eddington know about the iliad and the odyssey and who emerson is if books are suppressed to the point of him freezing in terror when he first encounters one?

>"Who are you?" Eddington's eyes were still fixed
on the bottles.
>"I'd ask the same question."
>"I'm Eddington."
>"I know," she said, tightening her lips.
this makes no sense

>>18873593
>Students are fed information at L'Academie
>No individuality or critical thinking
>Books and talking on the street are prohibited
>Everyone must wear blazers
>Eddington spends his time having banal conversations with a fellow history student
>Eddington meets a mysterious man named Archer who wears a trench-coat.
>Archer gives Ed a book
>The prefects show up and Ed must flee
>Eddington meets Ada, Joe, and Fred
>They're Rogues who read and stuff
>Ada gives Ed a device to avoid info dumps at L'Academie
>Ed reads Sartre in the bathtub and has mind blown
>Ed hangs out with the 3 Rogues and reads Waldun
>Ed goes nuts and starts writing on paper(!)
>Ed feels free
>But Ed is also haunted by dreams... or are they memories(?!)
>They're memories
>He dreams about a girlfriend and reading the Iliad and a forest
>Then Joe gets kidnapped
>Then Ada gets kidnapped
>Fred goes nuts and accuses Ed of being a Prefect
>Fred tortures Ed
>Ed ends up in a hospital and is visited by Archer
>This is like the 5th time they meet but none of those meetings were important.
>Archer is a part of the Regime(!) and Ed's father(!) and he says all the stolen books are kept in a vault(!)
>Ed goes back to L'Academy and meets up with his old history friend--now Rogue after finding a book--Tom
>Archer shows up to kidnap Tom like he did Ada and Joe
>Fred shots up the cafe, kills some prefects, dies, and Ed and Tom escape
>Ed bludgeons two prefects to death with a pipe
>Ed and Tom commandeer the prefects' book-stealing car and get past the wall.
>It is a wasteland
>They go to where all the books are kept
>Tom goes crazy after seeing all the books
>Archer kills Tom
>Archer tells Ed that his gf is dead and he tried to erase Ed's memories via L'Academie
>Ed goes crazy and splashes around in a stream.
The end

>>18873252
Never realized how much I wanted a /lit/ annotated Waldun book until I read this post

>>18873752
oh my gosh delete this pleasee!!! or atleast tag spoilers

>>18873706
For some reason the medical blazers can't say vomit and use
>inclinations to emit fluids from one's esophagus
instead. So edgy.

>>18873752
>>Ed hangs out with the 3 Rogues and reads Waldun
you can't be serious

>>18873731
Those are dream memories from before L'Academie
>>18873743
lol

>>18873809
Walden**** sorry about that

>>18873252
>Long Island black tea
Agree wholeheartedly with your take, but for what it's worth when he says long black he's referring to a type of black coffee drink (similar to an Americano) that's very popular here in Australia.

>>18873752
wait, Ada is his gf? I thought Ada was his long lost sister. Didn't Papa Archer tell Eddington that he and Ada were raised together but Ed forgot due to repressed memories and L'Academie headphones? But if Ada is Eddington's girlfriend, why would Waldun give her the same name as his actual sister Ada

>>18873836
No no no, Amelia is Ed's long lost gf. Ada is just some chick.

>>18873832
Aw shit, I thought this would be the start of Waldun becoming more comfortable with his Chinese heritage. In Learned Disguise, Arthur ALWAYS drank English Breakfast tea. Even when he went to the Chinese tea house, he ordered an English Breakfast tea for himself. He ordered a green tea for his white girlfriend though

>>18873848
How can a gf be long lost. Like they were childhood friends or some shit

>>18873867
They were childhood friends AND flirty little lovers. Amelia couldn't handle The Cross and died. Eddington's memories were then erased, so while he remembered bits of her, he didn't remember she was dead.

gotta say these regime fellas aren't doing a very good job being authoritarian if resistance fighters can meet and speak freely in the backyards and -rooms of regime-approved establishments

If I have to read the word "blazer" one more time I'm goNNA LOSE IT BROS

>>18873752
>Archer is a part of the Regime(!)
So he just straight up copied 1984, the most famous and most read dystopic science fiction novel? I didn't even see this coming because it would be such an obvious thing to do that I tought Waldun was above it.

Also I hate the fucking names he gives to the places in the world
>muh The Wall
>L'Académie
>The Regime

There's not a shred of originality, at least in 1984 the names actually make sense and sometimes hint at something bigger even if they aren't explained, this fan fiction tier writing and it has just convinced me that Waldun hans't a single good idea in his mind. Waldun you will never become a writer no matter how technically good you get or how much you pay your editor

>>18873752
>Ed hangs out with the 3 Rogues and reads Waldun
For real?

Who did it better:
Keuroac:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dywFHScNecI
Jay The Author:https://youtu.be/EO4xBXhwOi8

>>18873832
Illuminating! I can now confirm that the 'long black' is in fact a phalic image. I confess--I failed to understand the depth of metaphor being used. Waldun isn't drinking his sorrows away but it, quite rather, drinking them in. A stiff drink. A long black.
>>18873859
Fuck off pseud. Waldun will not be categorized according to your chuddish apprehensions over Critical Race Theory. Waldun is a man for all races with a winter wardrobe for all seasons.

onions green is people!?

>>18873752
>>Ed bludgeons two prefects to death with a pipe
Immediately went to find this page, just to see if he could write something that hardcore, and it turned out pretty lame. It's written with such poshness that the impact feel cushioned. I mean, when is it ever good to use a word like "thwack" when describing a bludgeoning?
I'm not gonna pretend he's a seriously awful writer, because there are far worse offenses in literature than this, but it's definitely too flat to be particularly enjoyable.

>>18873923
Opps Here are time-stamped links.
>Jay The Author:
https://youtu.be/EO4xBXhwOi8
>Keuroac:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dywFHScNecI

>>18873921
I still don't understand the meaning of Double Rods as a euphemism for freethinkers. Maybe it's because fee thinking creatives need to be beaten up with two long black stiff rods at the same time

>>18873935
My mistake. It was a rod, not a pipe. I'm sure that matters for thematic reasons. Such a tense scene!

what do you imagine the everyday world of l'académie looks like? pic related for me

>>18873954
That may actually be the reasoning...like they are SO bad that they need to roddings to be put back in line??

Also, I can't quite articulate why, but I feel like the worst part of his writing is the dialogue. It all feels so mundane and stiff and choppy. It sounds like what you would read in speech bubbles from comics in the 1950s.And there seems to be almost equal parts dialogue and description, so the reading experience is unbearable. At TLD was hilariously bad enough to be enjoyable.

>>18873971
they're like Skyrim guards kek

L'Acadébased

>>18873994
*two roddings

Are there any parts of the book that you think are done well or decently or somewhat decently?

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