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re: Liberal Arts Majors: Did your college courses prepare you for your jobs?
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:39 pm to CapitalCityDevil
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:39 pm to CapitalCityDevil
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Even if you managed to write something good, it wouldn't be studied and the only people who would read it would be fat neckbeards wearing fedoras.
I take it you've never seen the inside of an English department.
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I assume you like good literature, take David Foster Wallace for example. Brilliant writer, yet basically unstudied.
That's fairly untrue too. Of contemporary authors, he's probably the one who is written most about, along with various others.
Posted on 3/9/15 at 9:47 pm to crazy4lsu
quote:Sorry if fat neckbeards is a confusing term. Think of it like a "lightyear". On the outside it looks like a unit of time, but it is actually a unit of distance. "Fat neckbeard" describes a state of being, not the actual looks of the individual. It is an internet thing, I figured it made it here by now.
crazy4lsu
And it is very true, our colleges have barely begun to teach DFW's work even though it is some of the most complex writing of the 20th-21st century.
This post was edited on 3/9/15 at 9:50 pm
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