>2026>I am… forgotten
who?
>>25385065Author of the Learned Disguise and L’Académie
>>25385080Failed pseud novels. Nigga can't come up with a compelling story, many such cases.
I recommend everyone checking out his blog at https://www.amugofinsights.org/Short, punchy essays that help with writing and explore insights from great minds spanning from Stephen Pinker to Malcolm Gladwell.
>>25385887there's no way this isn't Waldun himself glacing us with his presence
I'm actually the great Western Asian writer of this generation. I'm a quarter-white so poor dude never stood a chance!
>>25385060oh is this the three body problem guy
Are there any excerpts of his two novels available? I tried a cursory search after reading all the reviews on Goodreads and found nothing. It'd be nice to sample the polarizing writing style real quick, before deciding whether or not to add the two novels to my backlog.
>>25385922Check the archive. Search "Melbourne Movement" and go back to the first post you see with that term from when L'Academie dropped.
>>25385929cool cool thanks. I'm always looking for new inspiration and ideas from unconventional literature, and an excerpt is where I like to start with, so I can immediately obtain the benefit of a possible new writing idea to implement without having to drop everything I'm currently reading for the unfamiliar book I just came across. No cuts in the backlog line!addendum: ah, found it, much appreciated. let's see what the hoopla is about.
>>25385929speaking of that thread, reading one of the supportive and promotional posts, I've wasted so much time trying to figure out what this sentence they wrote means,>Wanting for the unwanted while wanting us to want them by bearing witness to their real want for connection.And I still haven't figured it out. I give up. What does that mean?
>>25385949it means they are driven by an urge to ape their favorite writers to the point of nonsense
>>25385060I still yearn for his bussy as much as ever.
>80% of the video is a sponsor shillingThis dude is lame
>>25385898>t. rf kuang
>>25385922here's lacademiehttps://files.catbox.moe/n1l2zh.pdf
>>25386128>That's when he realised, Academia was rather dark here in L'AcademieSides: in orbit
Twinks Death is the cruelest joke of reality.
>>25385887>Why does your essay sound boring?>In September 2004, Malcolm Gladwell published an essay in The New Yorker titled ‘The Ketchup Conundrum’ and it’s exactly what it says on the tin: a whole 30-page essay about ketchup.>When I first read the title, I expected a long and boring meander about tomatoes, potatoes, the American soup obsession and a drab biography of Henry Heinz. But 10 pages in, I was glued, and I noticed what Gladwell was doing.>See, most essays are boring because they are mere presentations of ideas. The idea is already vacuum sealed in a pickle jar, and the writing is as interesting as reading the ingredients list on the back.>But Gladwell is that crazy person who smashes the jar, eats a pickle, gets all excited and sits you down to rant about it. This is Gladwell’s secret sauce: he doesn’t present ideas, but he thinks on the page with you.>This makes sense because the root word for essay is essayer (to try) from the French. In a way, every essay is an attempt to think on the page and doing a ton of research before you write a word defeats the purpose.>And here’s how Gladwell thinks about ketchup on the page...Obviously this guy would start using AI, lol
>>25386128Is this actually from the book or is it a joke
>>25386953joke. the book isn't written nearly as well
So in brief this guy likes posing as a writer instead of actually writing. Only he's taken this cliche to comical levels by creating a how-to blog and photographing himself holding books, pens, paper--all the well-known writerly signifiers. He's basically a tool, an artist for pussy.
>>25387418He has published multiple novels and is working with Random House on an upcoming book. What have you done, bitch?
>>25387418The social media age has turned all of us into performative models of a chosen idealized person. That doesn't mean we cannot also genuinely be that thing too. It's not just a thing for pretenders anymore.
>>25387436Whatever happened to Waldun's Bloomsbury book? Wasn't it some shitty "College 101 Guide"?
>>25387418The map is the territory.
>>25387418you wish you had waldun's rizz
>>25385060What is it about asian guys that they have to do this lame self promoting shit?Before Waldun there was Kolsti and Tao Lin.
>>25389256>>25389262just wowhe seems happy though
>>25385929>Melbourne MovementIs this another name for the Low-fi-high-fats?
>>25389262So this guy has an underdeveloped sense of shame and cringe, is that it?
>>25389541too low iq to have imposter syndrome. I wonder if the people listening to him have even read his crap
