/lit/ - Literature

>>18909686
COMFY.PNG ANON, THIS ONE'S FOR YOU

>>18909596
>It must be said that often times the jump in time between paragraphs following one another is quite large and makes the reader confused.

Sounds like you need to use your thinky thinky a bit more.

This is truly a generational masterpiece but not in the way you think.To understand this you need to see the allegory hidden in there.

Let me explain:

Waldun's past self was all about reading books and appearing smart (The Learned Disguise). That was the whole point in his life. That is why you have to read The Learned Disguise before you jump into L'Académie. Now where do we go from there?

Students in L'Académie go beyond the wall where there is nothing and die. This is the moment of self-realiziation.What Waldun says here is that knowledge only is infact pointless. The Learned Disguise and L'Académie are the exact opposite but together they saw the journey of a young man coming to realization about life and even doubting his whole previous life and morals.

There are literally no words to describe the feeling you get when you realize this.

KYS
KYS
KYS

Is this some retarded meme book? I do not know that guy. Please reply seriously.

>>18909754
it's like Stoner for the modern era

the best thing about waldun is that he makes election tourists seethe :^)

>>18909762
Yes.

Look for RC waldun on YouTube

>>18909724

Good review (in the previous thread) the only thing I would say is that you accidentally wrote "were" in lieu of "wear" when referring to the blazers.

>>18909686
>tenants
>tenants

this is a 10/10 in bongland

>>18909865
well how many ants did you count, anon?

As one of Robin's classmates, would It be insane to write my final on Learned Disguise, using it to affirm the Jameson/Adornic idea of failed counter-culture?

The motivation of using someone's work to get a much higher mark on an assignment they have to do is attractive, but I don't want to devolve to total villainy.

>>18909933
kek do it and post it here

>>18909870
Our man on youtube doesn't live in England.

>>18910003
sorry Great Shitstain then

Not even a new thread pic. Weak effort OP. The Waldunian thing would be to pour your heart into a new image regardless of how it turns out.

>>18910013
It is new. You're not paying close enough attention.
Perhaps you don't have what it takes to be a Waldun scholar.

This charlatan genuinely has me so mad that I want to produce a novel in order to improve the reputation of /lit/ writers

Any other /writers/ in here?

>>18910017
"I should've known! Your blazer's color!"
How could I have missed this obvious reference.

>>18909933
>Robin's classmates
checked and I really hope you aren't larping. On the very minuscule chance you aren't, please do it. And by classmate, do you mean you are currently classmates with him, or were you classmates with him in high school?

>>18910068
At unimelb within the same discipline. I'm not actually in any tuts with him but have spoken to him on campus.

The reason he has been pretending to read Joyce is because of this class: https://handbook.unimelb.edu.au/2017/subjects/engl20022

(Ulysses in its completion is not set, and attempting to read the whole thing could corrode your study of the texts, so I do not buy he read it)

I'm starting to feel the Waldunian energy dwindle a little bit bros.... after the KDBooks review, what do we have left?

>>18910113
I can answer any cultural questions any fellow Waldun scholars have re: Melbourne 'academic' culture'

My friends and I have been Waldun fans for quite some time. However, due to his accent, we assumed he was from Middle America. When we saw him on our campus and caught up on later videos where he mentions he is Australian, the absurdity of his project became all the more pronounced, and with it the comedy grew even further.

Make no mistake anons, I have never met anybody in this city like Robin, which (imo) gives his work artistic merit.

>>18910126
>after the KDBooks review, what do we have left?
the sweet edge of despair, and the final peace of death.

>>18910126
Waldun's eventual suicide

>>18910113
>>18910127
You mention that you have spoken to him, what is he like in person? Is he similar to the persona he projects in his videos? What have you talked to him about?

Why has no-one leaked his Patreon content yet?

>Captcha 0NPKD

>>18910126
We still have Sneed's videos to look forward to. He's currently still working on the Learned Disguise video, so we have at least a week or two to wait until his L'Academie review. I'm also curious to see where he agrees and disagrees with KDbook's review

>>18910145
He was shocked, yet flattered that I knew who he was, but very polite and a nice guy. I sincerely thanked him for making his vid on 'how to read infinite jest' because his advice (small chunks every day iirc) actually helped me lol. He wasn't interested in discussing IJ at all tho...

>>18910126
Become the Waldun you wish to see in the world, embody the Waldunian spirit. Write shitty books, start a literary entourage.

>>18910152
you should have asked his opinion of Marathe's true loyalties and how they change throughout the book

>>18910152
WAIT

are you the guy in the beginning of this short story:
https://rcwaldun.com/blog/mens-handkerchief ?

>Captcha G8NWJ

>>18910152
>He wasn't interested in discussing IJ at all tho.
because he didn't read it

>>18909686
>Set in the authoritarian Hunger 1984 Divergent Games universe
What does this mean? Is this the Sonichu of literature?

>>18910160
ahahaha wtf nah

unless he took the IJ element of me and merged it with this 'Oscar' fella. my meeting was on campus not the state library.

>>18910113
Also, a key element to understanding why he has become a beat lies in the Unimelb culture. He signed up for our 'literature' degree assuming it would be dark academia style, filled with book-addicted students, who are interested in stories and storytelling. This is not what the degree is. It is focused on critical debates, and texts are very much secondary and tools to engage in this discourse. I can imagine that after hyping the degree so much and then seeing it subordinate texts for other, more economically beneficial focuses, pushed Robin to embrace the breath ethos.

>>18910168
yeah but maybe your interaction was slightly altered, fictionalised for dramatic purposes

>Captcha HTW4R

>>18910022
me. im 6000 words in only 244000 to go :)

>>18909686
>Hunger 1984 Divergent Games
Is this really in the book?

>>18909686
Waldun can really be a cheeky cunt when he wants

>>18910233
Would his books have been better if they'd been written entirely in Chinglish?

>>18909933
You MUST do it anon. Post it here too

>>18909594
>>18909596
:( is this a preview of KDBook's review? I'm scared.

>>18910180
What is the breath ethos? Does that ethos discourage you from using your thinky thinky?

>>18910152
> He wasn't interested in discussing IJ at all tho...
He did make the video about how to read Infinite Jest but I think in a later video he admitted that the language was too difficult and he had to give up after 100 pages

>>18910378
>breath
beat*

>>18910387
oh lmao, i forgot that

>>18910399
ok, then what does the beat ethos consist of? Is it the Dead Poets Society vague "suck the marrow out of life" stuff that he references in L'Academie?

>>18910408
So Robin, Jay and Jaidyn are trying to start a neo-beat movement that turns it back on the literary establishment. Its tenets are autodidactism and self-publishing.

>>18910408
*gets up on table
O WALDUN MY WALDUN

>>18910416
no, I want a serious answer pls

>>18910422
that was serious

>>18910420
there's a character in Learned Disguise, Felix, who constantly calls Arthur/Waldun "Captain" and tells him "O Captain my Captain." He doesn't get as much attention as Sir Timur which is a shame

>>18910429
> Its tenets are autodidactism and self-publishing
I don't think you're serious because those tenets are the same as Waldun's tenets during his polymath genius modern Renaissance man phase. How could old European intellectual wunderkind Waldun and neobeat Waldun have the same ideology

>>18910440
Waldun's ideologies are purely aesthetic. The essence is static while its surface evolves.

>>18910447
He hasn't changed his aesthetic. His clothing style has stayed exactly the same from his Renaissance period to now. That's why I assumed his ideology changed because otherwise what is the difference between the revived beatnik and the modern Renaissance man?

>>18910440
>How could old European intellectual wunderkind Waldun and neobeat Waldun have the same ideology
Your mistake was to treat "Waldun" as a singular concrete entity and not a standalone complex

>>18910440
Waldun is neo-beat insofar as he hangs around the two Jays.

>>18910464
We are truly all the Man Of History

>>18910440
>his polymath genius modern Renaissance man phase
i miss this lil nigga like you wouldn't believe

>>18910127
Based Wally scholar

>>18910127
are you yourselves literature students?

>>18910126
Theyre's A Tail To This City

>>18910180
>assuming it would be dark academia style, filled with book-addicted students, who are interested in stories and storytelling. This is not what the degree is. It is focused on critical debates, and texts are very much secondary
"Storytelling" is hack shit though. Real literature consists of rhetoric, dialectic, and exploration of themes. A literature course shouldn't be about telling tales.

>>18910624
>Real literature consists of rhetoric, dialectic, and exploration of themes.
shut the fuck up tranny

>>18910624
Good storytelling supports all of these things, you might as well be writing an essay or philosophical treatise if you your storytelling and dialectic are not working hand in hand

>>18910658
Storytelling is a matter apart from those things. You don't know what you're talking about.

>>18910152
He admitted to me he hadn't finished it. Stopped at 400 pages, but he could've embellished. He's a charlatan through and through, surrounded by people defending his echo chamber.

>>18910624
> Real literature consists of rhetoric, dialectic, and exploration of themes
Reading literature is not about picking apart everything

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSgPQY7kTBc

>>18910686
reading it might not be, but a course on it certainly should be, otherwise it's just a fucking book club.

>>18910661Please enlighten me on this art of storytelling that does nothing to support the central themes or explore the ideas of a work.

>>18910358
quite possibly

i'd expect a little more from kd but it's pretty fair

>>18910695
storytelling conveys a message that can mirror the central themes and in the best cases does so, but doesn't necessarily do so.
It is possible to construct a book which tells a story completely orthogonal to the themes explored therein.
But I can already sense you're not arguing in good faith so I'm not going to bother explaining the theory behind this.

>>18910701
I actually agree with what you are saying in principle, I only answered your self-assured tone in kind. Of course not all storytelling supports the themes of a work, but good storytelling is a necessary condition for good literature. As I said, if you aren't doing anything to build empathy or invest the reader in your setting, or any of the other things storytelling does, you might as well just write a philosophical treatise.

>>18910422
It's about the movement. Jaidyn is the beating heart. Jay is the body. Waldun is the mind.

It all runs painfully deep.

Start your adventure here:
Introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1ZpAiw3vio
Familiarization: https://youtu.be/tzAqf00sFII

Getting to know Jaidyn (HEART):
https://youtu.be/G9egz4rDrCU
https://youtu.be/dU9BNkjlyF0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3ub5pnKzlE

Getting to know Jay (BODY):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLBzJkDfhgU
https://youtu.be/EO4xBXhwOi8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZAWOL-X1MM

Getting to know Waldun (MIND):
The lack of self-awareness. The repressed homosexuality His early masterpiece, The Learned Disguise, is the only way in. However, you can start your journey into this young man via his fashion advice as inspired by his daddy issues (trying to please him but realizing he must make his own path to self-discovery): https://youtu.be/TyTh_F0rc-A

>>18910732
where does that woman, shaieka, fit into all this?

>>18910686
this channel is great

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5ZgMMDSSZc

fucking kek

>>18910766
the meat of the sandwich, if you will

>>18910766
I think she was just a friend of Jay that tried helping them. She just appeared one day, took the boys to poems readings and then fucked off, I tought she was gonna be a regular part of the crew. Jay and Jaidyn follow her on Instagran but Waldun doesn't, its safe tl say he doesnt really think of her as equals

>>18910777
jesus christ how many fast cuts are within every sentence, that shit is infuriating

>>18910790
it's because he's trying to hide his ESLisms

>>18910785
>its safe tl say he doesnt really think of her as equals
understandable. not many people have the intellectual rigour to match the Waldunian disposition

>>18910785
very interesting. this could be huge, we need anons on the streets of melbourne finding out abou this

I've read Chapter One and a little bit of Two of Waldun's opus L'Academie, some thoughts:

In Waldun's world society is conformist and strictly regimented,
in the street, Eddington sees
>all walking in the same straight line, all wearing the same earpieces, the same blank expression
Eddington does the same
>he walked in a straight line
as opposed to walking in zig-zag fashion like a crazy beatnik. People walk in straight lines because they are conformist. They conform because they live in a surveillance state, at home they are watched by some kind of tv screen and outside:
>tall, militant figures in black suits lurked in the shadows, tall, militant figures in black suits lurked in the shadows
even in the middle of the night
>Black suits still stalked the streets
you wouldn't wanna cause trouble here because
>guards in masks carried machine guns

The rules are strict
>talking on The Box was prohibited
and strictly enforced, Eddington is told
>"No talking out loud in the streets."
a mysterious man in a long coat is also told
>"Sir, no speaking out on the streets.
the system's ideology is inescapable, even on "The Box"
>Black text against white backgrounds proclaimed the tenants (sic) of The Regime alongside transport route information

Nothing escapes the Prefects notice, when Eddington has a mild panic attack, immediately
>The Prefect walked toward Eddington. "Are you well?"

yet despite this we are informed on the very first page that there is
>trash cluttering the street
and
>pieces of rubbish whirled along the ground

Question: Who is doing all the littering? There seems to be a lot of it, yet people are afraid to even talk outside...

Thanks for Reading.

>>18910843
>Who is doing all the littering?
I want to say the Rogues but there's only three of them and they couldn't make enough trash to clutter streets. So it must be the Prefects.
Bravo, Waldun, for adding more subtle yet profound depth to your world! Who watches the watchmen?

do you think Waldun knows his writting is dominated by his strong desire to be perceived as a white person?

>>18909762
Bathos.

>>18911013
he knows about his desire to be white
he knows not his desire to have white cock

>>18910387
>claims to have read Ulysses, IJ, Gravity's Rainbow
>made VIDEOS on how to read them
>has admitted to not being able to finish the EASIEST one of the three
This is so waldunian and perfect

>>18911054
ulysses is arguably the easiest though. IJ might be a lesser work but it's definitely more of a slog

>>18911045
could he get cured if he gets topped hard enough by a white guy?

>>18911065
IJ is more of a slog but much easier to read, Ulysses is almost incomprehensible in parts without the aid of commentaries or incredibly deep and broad knowledge.

>>18911065
I found Ulysses much much harder (and more rewarding) than IJ, which was a pretty light read. I don't understand how some people find IJ it hard. Unlike Ulysses doesn't require much outside context and the prose isn't particularly obscure. It just requires one not to have a fucked attention span for them to stick through some long-winded rants

>>18911065
>>18911093
>>18911102
Sirs. Although this is /lit, please be reminded that you are on 4chan. This is a Waldun thread gentlemen.

>>18911125
This is still relevant to waldunian studies, we are trying to figure out if it's concievable that he finished Ulysses and Gravity's Rainbow

>>18911139
no, he only hypothetically finished them. observe:
on monday he read one page
on tuesday he read another
by the principle of induction, he would have read the entire book of IJ in 1000 days.
knowing this, there was no need to actually read it.
Waldun's a pretty smart guy.

>>18911013
>his writing
you mean his entire existence.

WHEReS THE FUCKIN VIDEO LEBOWSKI
WHERES THE REVIEW SHITHEAD

>>18911139
i doubt he has read as much as he claims. his ulysees video is literally copy pasta from academic articles or books.

he said in the podcast that he "read for 3 years, now it's time to write"

also consider his enthusiasm for pedestrian works like farhenheit 911 and david sedaris, yet when it comes to ulysees it's all copied material

>>18911202
i think all the quotes from the ulysses video are from the same guy, probably the same text as well. most likely the introduction to his penguin edition kek

this is what i got when i typed "R.C. Waldun" into https://neuralblender.com/

next i will try Lacademies famous first sentence

>>18911202
> farhenheit 911
kek, that's so Waldunian. I wonder if he's going to fix his fake Paradise Lost quote for the ebook

>>18910113
Have you taken this class before? How was it? I noticed that the Harlem Renaissance is in the curriculum, and I don't think Waldun is into niggers, even if they did have their own Renaissance

>>18911237
renaissance of what? drugs bitches and hos?

>>18911256
fuck off

>>18911256
mostly jazz and poetry, I think. I learned about Langston Hughes in school

>>18911144
Wow Wally is pretty smart for that one

>>18910790
I actually added the jump cuts, otherwise he pauses, meanders to irrelevant topics, and says "you know" and "like" too much

I should have a new draft of Learned Disguise review up tomorrow, I'm trying to equalize the audio levels

>>18911224
>The indicator turned green as Eddington crossed the road in a straight line.

>>18911335
ah ok fair enough

you can't stop it

>>18911348
>A gentle wind blew through The
Regime, and there weren't many people out.

>>18910684
Dude wtf leak some Patreon content pls

>>18911499
Somehow the ai predicted rubbish filled streets.... Very interesting I wonder if the ai is tapping into waldunian metaphysics already after a mere 2 sentences.

>>18911588
I sincerely hope they get Christopher C. Miller to adapt and star in the film version.

https://youtu.be/0KlUFlvdwac

>>18911499
"R.C. Waldun & Jay The Author"
>Homo Hypothesis confirmed by cutting edge AI

>>18911499
>Pieces of rubbish whirled along the ground, but someone would pick them up eventually.

Why is the name in French though? Tryhard pretentiousness is hilarious. I pronounce it with a thick French accent and add a French "euh..." right after to be as pretentious as possible.

ngl, I wish I had a partner or gf to buddy read books with

>>18912073
these books are so Waldun
> James Joyce's Ulysses
> John Milton's Paradise Lost, most famous for his quote "“Innocence, Once Lost, Can Never Be Regained. Darkness, Once Gazed Upon, Can Never Be Lost"
> book of French poetry

>>18912073
Notice how she refers to him as "buddy." Ila is his beard.

>>18912055
he has studied french for 2 years

>>18912080
wow... that milton quote... the proses sir... they flow!

>>18912083
Those who've recognized the repressed homosexuality in his work are few and far between (more people post about Ila Rose than they do about the gay subtext in his books). It's a shame because that area of his work is as unintentional as it is interesting (the autobiographical LARPing of the Beats having unintended ironic consequences). >>18897581

>daddy issues (centred around a strong/discerning father figure)
>preoccupation with aesthetics (notably fashion)
>refering to himself as "closeted"
>calling himself/Jay a "couple"
>falling out with the lesbo-archetype that is Saskia
>his inoffensive, almost asexual, sexual aura attracting the type of females easily associated with fag-haggary.
>refering to himself as "voluntarily celibate" before erasing that label in favor of an obvious beard (Ila Rose)

On top of all that you have the writing itself. This was meant as a joke (>>18897588 ) but there are plenty of other examples of it.

You can argue that it's all circumstantial but the evidence is in no way superficial. As said, it makes his writing genuinely interesting (so bad it's good usually has to have a level of sincerity to work--Waldun's is just unintentional and comes out via his repressed homosexuality).

>>18912073
is it possible that they were dating as early as May 2020? She was using the #darkacademia hashtag then. Or do lots of girls use #darkacademia

https://www.instagram.com/p/CAPdDwcAC0u/

>>18912103
>dating
Waldun is a repressed homosexual. It's in his writing. When he comes out within the next 3 years (and posts about 'subtext' coming through in his writing) you'll recognize yourself for the goon you are...

>>18912073
wait a second, only the Ulysses is a real book. The other two are pictures of books. They're flat, 2D postcards

>>18912120
What the fuck why?

>>18912120
You are right hahaha

>>18912120
>looks authentic on first glance, but take a closer look and realise it's all a fake aesthetic
she's perfect for Waldun

>>18912120
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

>>18912073
EGADS! I understand Waldun's eyepatch now!

I'm sorry for making fun of you for being a pirate before, Waldun, you truly are the Joycian aesthetic scholar. I kneel

>>18912162
im surprised he hasn't started dyeing his temples grey too

>>18912103
No. As of 2020, Waldun was bing watching Dr.House during lockdown and he wrote that short story "Theres another me out there" which is about a disastrours tinder date. And yes, lots of girls use #DarkAcademia as it is something that primarily attracts girls and fags. My theory is that Waldun kind of grew up without a strong male figure, be it because of divorce or his father being cold and distant or out in businnes, we know he has a father at least, men without male examples in their youth grow up with more feminine qualities than most. I had a friend raised by his mother that would cry whever we broke his ball, it was pathethic

Was confused and thought Saskia and Ila were the same for a second. Someone should make a chart, this Waldunverse is getting complicated.

>>18912162
Can anyone explain what is up with the bowtie ? Is it somehow clipped on the very top of the shirt ?

>>18912285
its probably one of those clip on ties instead of a regular one where you need to know how to tie

>>18912302
Waldunesque

>>18912120
>>18912133
she cut the cover off an old book to make them lmfao

>>18912328
this shit is like savages using pieces of technology as bling tier

leave ilya the fuck along you patetic pieces of shit. leave her before you go too far and force me to do the untinkable

Honestly i didnt get it at first but im howling at these threads.

>>18912328
>>18912120
they're probably just bookmarks. kind of silly but i don't expect anything less from waldun's troupe

>>18909686
What is your favorite part of L'Académie?

>>18912571
>that image
kek

May I offer some honest thoughts.

>>18912609
I don't know, can you?

>>18912609
You may

>>18912609
is there anything more Waldunian than the very first sentence he published? an instant classic

>>18912162
This photo and the moldbug in leather photo are in a serious competition for crinigiest thing in existence

>>18912162
>>18912763
They appeared side-by-side (Joyce was not impressed).

>>18912783
Almost as historical as when Burroughs met Samuel Beckett

>>18912783
WALDUNCHAD and the Virgin Joyce

Of the three main characters of the Waldun universe, who is the most likely to make it?
I’m betting on Jay. He seems like a down to earth guy with at least some life experience other than larping around.

>>18912763
Now i want to see the moldbug photo, how bad is it?

To the masochists who read it: was it worth it? It's obviously not good from the little I saw, but is it in the "so bad it's entertaining" category or is it just plain bad?

>>18912939

>>18912971
all he needs is a katana

>>18912965
A bit of both honestly

why is the Waldunian disposition so difficult for plebs to grasp?

>>18913011
>torcher yourself
lmfao it's this guy again

>>18912835
make it where?

>>18913020
to mid-age without an heroing

>>18913026
definitely jay then. he has the carefree self-confidence of a dumb person and seems the most blissfully unaware of his cringiness, whereas i suspect that jaidyn and robin will want to scrub the internet of all melbourne best boys content in the near future. and if things got really out of hand and they somehow became a worldwide meme, waldun can at least escape back to china and assume a new (old?) identity

>>18913011
>that review
filtered

>>18912835
I think Waldun can actually make it. Not as a great writer, but he might manage a popular YA novel. He's extremely persistent, more than willing to follow trends (as evidenced by the Dark Academia stuff) and already took his first step with L'Academie.

>>18912971
Oh no oh no I do that awkward pocket pinch thing too!

>>18912971
someone shoop walduns face on this

>>18913011
i think you misunderstand. read the review closer and you can see he has fully adopted a waldunian disposition:

>torcher

That's the wink, the nod to Waldun himself.

>>18907208
This >>18907888

The asshole had the audacity to call for trips (TRIPS!) and failed to deliver when someone got it on only the 5th roll. What an asshole.

>>18913233
quite the waldunian move.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvquoDJGMGU

Vintage Waldun

>>18913333
>quads
you must now pay the cum tribute

>>18910113

>tut

not

>tute

american larper detective no australian at least no victorian says or writes tut rather than tute

>>18913409
one could almost say that the anon you replied to is donning a learned disguise…

THUD!

How to take higher education seriously when it produces Waldunian writers

>>18912835
These niggas better learn something or get a degree, else they'll be working minimum wage in a few years.

>>18913017
I'm the reviewer swg, the screencap wasn't posted by me. Have a more thorough review in the works

>>18913333
His accent is unbereable in this one, like a british person doing a mock american accent but unfunny and just irritating

>>18913333
DUAH MOSS FREQWENTHWING DUAHT WE MEAUSRE IS...ORSURLVS

>>18913333
he sounds like he's doing an impression of jackie chan, vinesauce joel, and sargon of akkad all at the same time

>>18910843
I urge you to pay attention to the rolling coffee cups, apparent abundance of cigarettes and the descriptions of smoking, the almost nonexistent description of lacademie itself and so much more.

To answer your question, I have no clue. There are garbage processing units in every alley mentioned. Iirc only 4-5 rogues are mentioned throughout the book. How they can even survive undetected in a walled off city with big brother surveillance everywhere is truly remarkable.

>>18913333
Wow, what a fucking retard.

>>18913610
Waldun mentions at every opportunity the constant surveillance, but nothing in the text shows that surveillance in any way. I'm less than halfway through so I can only speak on what I've read so far.
The prefect who saw him and Ada behind the Cafe should have known who they were after reviewing the footage of them in the Cafe, and then just later arrested them. Ed is able to sneak a chip into the computer at lacademie while no one is watching, and more than 3 prefects gave him a warning about the stain on his blazer. If this society really was constantly being monitored none of these things would have happened. The second prefect to give him a warning should have known that he was already given a first warning plenty of time before, and arrested him for noncompliance.
Of course I'm probably missing something too big brained for me to have caught that explains all this perfectly.

Waldunbros... at 0:32 in this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clZ9aDCLKeE Waldun says he's read Leonardo Da Vinci's biography.
But in his infamous blahblahblah grades bad video, which came out 4 months after the first video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MPf56a1tX0 at 8:35 says he's just started Leonardo Da Vinci's biography. If he had read it beforehand, why would he have said he started it "today"?
Could it be that... perhaps... Waldun says he reads books that he doesn't actually read? Please tell me I'm wrong bros. I HAVE to have made an error somewhere...

>>18913333
>that chink trying to sound american accent
HAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

>>18913668
waldun's oeuvre is not released in a chronological way, he uses analepsis and prolepsis all the time.

>>18913668
use the linati schema to better understand the chronology

>>18913668
Waldun was simply re-reading da Vinci's biography to fully assimilate how to be a true renaissance man.

any waldun scholars care to explain how ulysses is always stated as the first novel to foreground the conscious process when in search of lost time does it 7 years earlier?

>>18913646
Fellow Waldun Scholar and devoted follower of the Melbourne Movement--let me explain. Such points are nonimportant within the corpus of Waldun's writing. While a well-read individual, which I'm sure you are given your taste has lead you to our man, will easily point out such discrepancies as plot holes or lazy writing, it should be firmly pointed out that such are actually part of Waldun's meta-dream logic prose. I know it's difficult, given how deeply immersive Waldun's prose always is, but we must remember where we are--we're in Waldun's world!

Oh, we have but a window through which to look upon this man. Men like ourselves must always remain on the periphery as our mundane and normal lives fail to provide us with the keen discerning eye that belongs to our man. Waldun knows this and he'll use meta-fictional devices to remind us that we are in fact reading a book...he must keep us grounded.

We shall name this device THE EDDINGTON WINDOW.

>>18913707
It continues to baffle me that people attempt to find flaws within Waldun's opus. As if every nook and cranny of this divine vision hasn't been pored over relentlessly. To doubt Waldun is to doubt literature itself.

>>18911237
Yeah, it was a good class but maybe a bit content-heavy. It was difficult to fully commit to it while doing three other subjects.

>>18912285
Its literally inspired by Doctor Who according to his FB.

>>18913683
I'm not sure about prolepsis but he sure does a lot of prolapses

>>18913739
Here here! Well said. It's to be expected that the occasional goon will try and troll us. It's also expected that a burgeoning Waldunchad may become confused by the sheer weight of insight Waldun bestows us with. However, we cannot stand by when imbeciles think they can point to simplistic nonsense ("muH pLoThoLEs!") when our man Waldun goes as far as to discriminate the singular utensils with which he births his art!

https://youtu.be/MXnrqlHynAM

Such attention! Oh!

This is the 200th post in this thread. This is the 1903 post in our week-long discussion of our man Waldun.

Well done lads, well done.

>>18913819
Frens!

>>18913844
Kdbooks actually has cute grils commenting on his channel. I wish he could somehow cuck Waldun with Ila.

>>18910248
they would be far more authentic and characterful, which is two positive attributes instead of none. So yes much better

>>18913911
Ila is Waldun's beard. >>18912091

>>18913604
Mug

>>18913844
How long before KD murders Waldun's literary career AGAIN? I'm dying in anticipation.

>>18914272
he's going to puss out. waldun's stature has only grown in the booktube community. other tubers don't dare cross him if they want a career

>>18914272
He's going to wait until after the official release on September 1. This is an unspoken rule of book reviewing

>>18914349
SHIT

>>18914349
waldunchads win again

>>18914349
NO NO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

>>18914349
we unironically got too cocky...

>>18914349
holy FUCKING shit

we'll get to 8 or 9 threads before this fucker gets a vid out

>box of books as enticing as a box of sausages being carried in the streets
Waldunchads... evidence for the Homosexual Hypothesis (HH) just keeps coming

>lighted a cigarette
>wooden piles
Two typos on the same page? Waldun should get his money back from those rat bastard team of editors. I have found way too many mistakes that the editors put in themselves while they were "fixing" the text

>>18914445
>Do y'all know the tales of Cthulhu
wow

I know y’all really want Walden to want dick, but I don’t get that vibe from him at all. He just doesn’t feel confident enough as a male to think of himself fucking a women like an animal. He would consider it rude or ungentlemanly. He’s basically Eliot sans homicidal ideation and blaming other people for shit. And coming from another language/culture he’s going to draw some metaphors and similes out of left field, the dogs salivating for sausages is appropriate just clunky. I know I’m doubting one of /lit/ biggest fantasies and I can only imagine how great the threads would be if y’all were right but I just don’t see it.

>>18914445
Are they trying to sabotage him bros?

>>18914485
I agree with you, I don't get an repressed homosexual vibes from Waldun. He just seems too uncomfortable with sexuality in general, and in that respect does remind me a bit of Eliot Roger as you mentioned

>>18912971
I never thought I'd get to see Moldbug's O-face

>>18914492
That's the only logical explanation

>>18914349
the virgin crappy camera KDBooks vs the Chad top production value camera Waldun

>>18914645
its easier to get good production values when you get funds from your rich chink dad

>>18914485
>Walden
You don't even have the presence of mind to spell our man's name right. WALDUN.

>>18914550
>He just seems too uncomfortable with sexuality
Grab a dictionary and look up the word "repressed." Retard.

>>18914485
>He just doesn’t feel confident enough as a male to think of himself fucking a women like an animal. He would consider it rude or ungentlemanly.
This is literally me. How do I fix this.

>>18914691
Realize that women are human beings and enjoy getting fucked. (Bonus: 95% of the women I've been with liked it rough and about 10% of those liked it so rough that it felt like borderline abuse).

Seriously though...they're people just like you. They get horny and they like sex. Don't be a retard.

>>18914691
Don't listen to that guy. Ila and Waldun most likely have already engaged in BDSM

>>18910113
hello fellow unimelb chad

>>18914719
Fuck off. The only BDSM involving for Waldun is
>Bound by repressed homosexuality
>Dominated via a subconscious desire for Jay
>Sadism of pretending Ila isn't just a beard
>Masochistically being attracted to the men Ila actually wants to fuck

He's gay. The Homosexual Hypothesis should be upgraded to the Repressed Theory.

>>18914675
Blame autocorrect
And>>18914550 just said they don’t get any REPRESSED vibes. Learn to read before you go recommending a dictionary, you absolute drool soaked retard
>>18914691
Realize you’re putting women and sex on a massive pedestal. The type of sexual confidence I described comes from that and experience. Sex is fun and multifaceted. Stop worshiping women. Enjoy what they have to offer. Let go of some of the manners the women in your life demanded of you. Embrace being masculine. I’m not recommending trad male, mgtow, BAP and that bullshit. I’m saying straight women like men as men. Straight men like feminine traits in women. Enjoy. Get laid. Relax and have fun.
inb4 some semantic critique from virgins. I’m trying to help my bro out

>>18914708
>enjoy getting fucked
Eugh

>>18914754
>muh autocorrect
No, I blame you for being retarded.
>Learn to read before you go recommending a dictionary
Speak for yourself. He literally followed up his thought with a description of being repressed. Don't bother with a dictionary (learn how to use the words you know before moving onto new ones)
>>18914691
Don't listen to this idiot. He's literally paraphrasing Frank Mackey from Magnolia. (Besides, >>18914708 already said the same thing better).

>>18914754
Sir, waldunchads have no need for silly nonsense such as sleeping with women. Please take your discourse to another thread

>>18914780
I know that you want to fuck Waldun's bussy and that the sexual frustration is gnawing at you, but please carefully read what I wrote:
>I don't get an repressed homosexual vibes from Waldun. He just seems too uncomfortable with sexuality in general

I'm saying that yes, Waldun does seem uncomfortable with sexuality (repressed), but I don't get any vibes that he is specifically repressing homosexuality. Rather, I see him as sexually repressed in a general way.

>>18914880
>please carefully read what I wrote
No.

>>18914880
I'm with you on this meme, I don't feel it.

>>18914893
Fuck off Waldun. 1/3 of /lit knows your gay and the other 2/3s will pretend they did when you come out.

>>18914708
>women
>people

>>18913333
>if we move to the Mars
Waldunite

So kdbooks fucked up the video... The fresh, original reaction to the book will be lost in a remake. It's going to suck.

>>18915235
The first one would have been him trying to be more "fair" to Waldun. In the second try, he'll be more pissed off and won't hold back. That trademark KD dry welsh humor will be off the charts.

Besides, the anticipation for the review is keeping these threads alive.

>>18914708
>>18914754
>>18914780
I'm the guy who made the original post. Virgin at 20. I'm honestly a quiet and introverted guy. It's not that I can't imagine women enjoying rough sex or domination or whatever, it's that I doubt I'm even capable of doing it. Me giving a woman a good, rough dicking down? I can't even picture that.

Does it come naturally? Are all the men I see everyday rough with their wives in bed? I think I'm broken.

KDBooks: arrested and executed.

>>18915345
the entire basis of christianity is the be chaste before marriage and rape ur wife erryday all day after marriage. Check out the Duggar TV show, their women are taught to be virgins before marriage and available at all times afterwards

>>18915354
if Waldun gave Ila a good dicking, he would immediately stop writing these idealistic Enya-esque tradthot kissing on the cheek by a lake scenes. Sad, if you think about it, but that is the natural progression of man

>>18915345
I think it comes with experience. I fucked a chick once in Hungary who’s boyfriend was in jail. She was screaming at me to pull her hair while I was fucking her doggy, and after we were done she literally said ‘well that sucked’ and I never saw her again.

My point is if you learn to read the subtle clues women give you will find yourself becoming naturally more dominant as you have more partners.

I get the feeling that Waldun is the type to wait until marriage before having sex. In the beginning video, you can hear him (maybe) chiding his friend for having sex without being married

https://youtu.be/SpOt2RYLcsw

>>18915360
Man, fucking one girl is a tall order for me but getting experience by fucking multiple? When increasingly girls want more and more experienced guys? Damn.

And to hear guys talk about how they fucked this or that chick so casually while fucking even one is like the holy grail to me? Makes me feel like even more of a colossal failure.

>>18915461
I was a virgin at 20 and things worked out, don’t stress.

>>18915350
jej

>>18915461
Fake it till you make it. That has helped me countless times in life, especially when it comes to meeting new people in unfamiliar settings.

>>18909686
>That's when he realized, Academia was rather dark here in L'adademie.
He can't be fucking serious.

Who is this girl? The girlfriend? Waldun is subscribed to her and her videos have fewer than 100 views each. The video topics are the same stuff that Waldun likes

https://youtube.com/channel/UCmGeOCE4kl_J10becbXEn9Q

oh oh waldun bros

>>18915892
They're friends IRL.
>I'm an Australian Arts/Law student

>>18915892
same thumbnail style as his newer videos as well, wonder if he nabbed the idea from her lmao

>>18915894
thudbros... it's not looking good for us...

>>18915894
pull a Cooper and dox the discord. Do it now.

>>18915892
and he's subscribed to this girl named Ada. The channel has 11 subscribers. Is this what book Ada was based on?

https://youtube.com/channel/UCZEQICbd494-Dws2XqthFMA

>>18915902
dang, Waldun is getting all the white humanity hoe pussy

>>18915907
actually if you look at Jay's Instagram, you can see that Waldun got him to do the capitalized block letters too. He's a big influencer

https://www.instagram.com/p/CNMmzV1F1M7/

>>18914349
OUR PRAYERS WERE HEARD

Waldun's classmates are so lucky. It's like going to school with Shakespeare or Hennessy, before they were famous

>>18915894
This guy literally got filtered by Knausgård, I don't know what my fellow Waldunians and Walduniennes are afraid of.

>>18916042
But how could anyone have gone to school with those people if they've been dead for hundreds of years?

When will the normie reviews come out

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58817273-l-acad-mie

>>18916048
well, you see, other people were alive at the same time all those years ago. interesting to think about... for sure.

"Waldunian Metaphysics"

I love how a man not interesting enough to write, is interesting enough to warrant thousands of replies.

Form really does matter lol

>>18916087
these are great

>>18914719
Our boy Waldun got whipped and pegged

>>18915911
Yes, I think she shows up in some of his short stories on his website. Funny thing is, Waldun public persona has little to do with being asian or have any asian connections. Don't get me wrong, I hate people who make an personality out of their race, but cultural background and heritage is a very important thing in someone's life but he never mentions anything about being Asian in Australia which I think would be interesting to hear. I know that he has lots of asian friends judging hy his facebook comment, but my guess is they probably all went to STEM schools while Waldun flunked and went to study lit

>>18914349

>>18916285
pogchamp

>>18916285
more cope from fat bastard

>>18916285
so there's another review coming out BEFORE l'academie?
is this cheeky cunt just teasing us now?

>>18916291
someone ought to tell him that no cunt wants to watch yet another boring ass video on literally who booker prize femoid number one million

Why does he talk with an American accent?

Any fellow Waldunchads familiar with their Jameson? I'm trying to parse some flaws but am having issues. Basically I think that his goal of praxis (as purported on page 290 of TPU), fails due to his reluctance to investigate direct causes. FJ seems to me, purely teleological, in that he deciphers these socially symbolic texts, but without considering specific market factors, his interpretation cannot help emancipation.

Take something like 'On The Road.' An FJ interpretation would depict it as a work of counter-culture, representative of a path for common expression, and validation of a non-capitalist workflow. In other words, a blueprint to free-living, However, if you analyze it with a Frankfurt lens, it becomes a false narrative, spinning a view of freedom linked to the capitalist model, which does not help the working man.

Does anyone see what I'm getting at?

>>18916320
that's how they teach english in china

>>18916320
people who learn languages will imitate the accent of who teaches them. teaching two people american english and real english respectively, they will naturally sound different and more than likely will imitate the way their teacher sounds or the media they consume.
they tend to teach american english in asia.

>>18916320
Because of the Internet, many people around the world can learn English from American cultural export. "Hollywood English", fully equipped with over 50 regional accents to choose from.

his english is actually pretty good for an ESL
dunno why he doesnt just write in his native language though, since it's doubtful he'll reach conrad or beckett level of fluency

>>18915345
Sex isn’t just fucking a bitch through the mattress lol. I lost my virginity at 21, had sex with over 10 women, have a wife of 9 years with two kids. Sometimes it’s gentle and cooing, sometimes it’s fun and laughing, sometimes it’s making her say the lord’s prayer while you fuck her raw on her period. I just used that animal example to say Waldun wouldn’t let himself go. Have some sex and find out my friend.

>>18916502
gross
i never want to have sex after reading this post

>>18911045
All cock are white. Cock=oppress/hod down female.

Just been through the recent messages on KDs discord and the stuff mentioning waldun is pretty funny and telling....

why does he keep reviewing all this mainstream garbage?

>>18916559
yet you didn't think to screenshot them, fascinating

>>18916561
because it's what he reads

>>18916563
you can get on there pretty easily just use your brain.
It seems a few /lit/izens have already made the pilgrimage so I’m hesitant to link it and cause some sort of raid.

>>18916563
>>18916559
Proof..

>>18916590
OH NO NO NO WALDUNCHADS WE GOT TOO COCKY

>>18916590
kek

>>18913333
>comic sans

wtf

>>18916590
ohhhhhhhhh waaaaaallllldddduuuuuunnnnnnnnnn

Found spoilers for KDs score of lacademie
Should I post it?

>>18916664
of course

>>18916664
unironically dont we need to wait for the thing
i'd rather have no expectations, at least make it a spoiler

>>18916670
Your right.
Anyway the score was actually his impression from reading the 1st and 2nd lacademie threads on here.
Wether his opinion changed after reading the actual book is doubtful but possible.

>>18912162

I want to punch him in the face for taking this picture (in wii sports)

>>18916590
wtf why isn't the discord invite working anymore?

I just crossed a road in a straight line as the indicator turned green. I am literally Eddington.

>>18916697
>Anyway the score was actually his impression from reading the 1st and 2nd lacademie threads on here
This don't make any sense but I'm glad he followed the threads so he knows about the fake Milton quote

>>18916784
What I mean was that I thought it was his final score after reading the book but he hadn’t read it yet.
So the number he said was his impression after reading those threads and not the book it’s self
Therefore after reading the actual text rather than our shitposting his opinion might have changed.

>>18916802
has KDBooks said anything about changing the discord invite? The one I found has expired

>>18916784
He better mention it

>>18916735
>>18916808
The invite is insanely easy to find if you just think about it. It's basically in the thread.

>>18916815
wanted to add-- not gonna psot it here. Don't wanna raid the guy.

>>18916812
You’ll just have to keep looking through links on different vids of his, that’s what I did.
I just don’t want to spoil the cozy book club atmosphere with an accidental /lit/ raid

>>18914749
underrated criminally

Bros, Wadlun is actually inspiring me to put more time and effort into my writing again. I think we all owe it to ourselves to follow the call of the Waldunian impulse - write badly and often, find your muse, and most importantly, lie to everyone about how much you have read.

>>18916590
>>18915894
Those images are from the night before last so he’s certainly taking his time considering he reviewed learned disguise 15 mins after finishing it.
He must be trying to tread the thin line between destroying walduns bussy and not making waldun want to kill himself.

>>18916874
You just described 90% of lit.

MIGRATE
>>18916925

>>18916590
this proves kd is too pedestrian to read waldun

>>18916203
Waldun has a Facebook?

>>18917250
Its under his real name "Robin Wu"

>>18912763

kek

>>18914303

spot on

>>18916874

YEP

>>18915345
bottombrained