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Let's try something. Take this test by accepting the following challenge, and I will reveal later in the thread who failed and who passed (i.e. we'll reveal the plebs):

Here is a list of 10 ostensibly great works of literature. 3 of them don't belong. Which three works are they?

>The Tunnel by Gass
>Invisible Man by Ellison
>A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
>The Waves by Woolf
>The Sound and the Fury by Faulkner
>Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
>The Unnamable by Beckett
>Finnegans Wake by Joyce
>Lolita by Nabokov
>Underworld by Delillo

Prove you're not a pleb, /lit/.

Protip: If you think there is any configuration of this list that IS NOT pleb, then you're even more pleb than the people who get this wrong.
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>>8286531
Gass, Woolf, Nabokov
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>>8286531
Infinite Jest
Underworld
The Tunnel
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>>8286535
>>8286543
Oh dear.

Please proceed to r/books
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>>8286531
>A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
Old man and the sea >
Invisible Man by Ellison
up for debate but not my cup of tea
>The Tunnel by Gass
meh
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Invisible Man
The Waves
The Tunnel
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>>8286531
IJ
Unnameable
Fins Wake
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>tfw OP is a pleb who didnt read more than three of the books he listed
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>>8286641
The two first ones are correct
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>>8286531
Ugh I hate that fucking gross material design shit good started.

Sometimes I wonder whether design - say, Apple's design - is actually good in some abstract sense, or whether it's just a tiny bit of aesthetic talent keeping it from being too ugly, combined with a vast marketing machine that actively tried to train us to think that Apple design is good in the same way that the music industry realized they could train people to like boring crap by just playing it over and over again (familiarity is most of affinity desu). And then I see Google take a shit, and everyone copy thst pile, and realize that it's clearly the latter and not the former case.
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>>8286683
>good started
*Google
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>>8286531
>>A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway
>>The Waves by Woolf
take these out for sure
>>Invisible Man by Ellison
>>Finnegans Wake by Joyce
Haven't read these. All others i consider great works
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>>8286699
I haven't read the tunnel either but my copypasta skills were faulty.
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>>8286679

Only woman and darky on the list, and of course their work doesn't belong. Typical 4chan.

I'll guess the third one. It's gotta be FW.
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>>8286710
>Only woman and darky on the list, and of course their work doesn't belong

You're right.

>I'll guess the third one. It's gotta be FW.
Bingo.

Congrats. You were the only patrician intellectual in this thread.
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Invisible Man
The Waves
Infinite Jest

I'd keep The Waves but I get why you'd leave it out compared to the rest.
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>>8286723
see >>8286720
You both win
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>>8286531
A Farewell to Arms for sure cause Hemingway is not in this league, he is sticking out like bruised thumb

Infinite Jest for sure too cause dfw sucks nuts

And the third is a toss up... I kind of want to say underworld just cause I've never been impressed by Delillo and that's the only other one that really makes sense to me as not belonging. I mean I've never read Gass but his hype comes from the right places, and I've never liked Beckett too much but unlike Hemingway he can stand as both a social and a literary peer to others on the list

This is the correct answer btw, with all the conditions and ruminations included--if op says something else he is in fact the pleb
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>>8286766
>if op says something else he is in fact the pleb
OP has been established as a pleb as soon as he said it was Woolf and Ellison.
Harold Bloom wouldn't pass this "test".

OP's taste is as shit as this thread
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>>8286720
PURE IDEOLOGY
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>>8286801
You're embarrassing yourself
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>>8286531
I cringed
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The tunnel
Invisible man
Infinite jest
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