[ SECRET POST #2507 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2507 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 038 secrets from Secret Submission Post #358.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

...I wonder if I'm the only person here who'll be willing to admit that I cannot find the point of this secret for the life of me.

I mean, is it simply, "I'm a snob and IDGAF"? Or do I need to analyze that poem for deeper meaning and give myself horrific flashbacks to fucking endless English courses?

[feotakahari]

I think I understand it. The poem's writer is saying that she judges people who read bad literature like Twilight, and thinks her tastes are genuinely superior. (For instance, she's a fan of Stanislaw Lem.) However, she admits that she's somewhat in the same boat, since she has absolutely no taste when it comes to music.

[(Anonymous)]

For instance, she's a fan of Stanislaw Lem.

Do we know OP's gender? The above fact alone makes this secret 100% solid gold.

/also reads Stanislaw Lem, just not recently. *goes to load up ereader*

[(Anonymous)]

The point of this secret is fuckit it's a secret that's a poem. That's what we do now, we make secrets that are poems, for fun.

The content, yes, is basically "I'm a snob". At least as far as I can tell. "I'm a snob, even though I have opinions that snobs would scoff at bigtime".

[galerian-ash.livejournal.com]

No, I would've said the same thing if you hadn't beaten me to it. I don't see how this is a secret -- it just comes across as pretentious, especially with that Harvard logo.

...But eh, at least I got a chuckle out of the OP's failure to close the quote.

[(Anonymous)]

I just presumed that the pretension was part of the joke.

[(Anonymous)]

The point is that a couple weeks ago fingalsanteater said "Somebody should post a secret entirely in iambic pentameter" and somebody apparently went "challenge accepted" without noticing the "secret" part.

not OP

[(Anonymous)]

...but I gather this secret has been made by one of the mostly-silent bibliophile cohort here on F!S.

Yeah, I gotta start making more book secrets again, though I'm 50/50 on people either recognizing the book I'm making the secret about, or calling troll, if they get it at all. I have weird taste, whaddaya want? Thanks to used bookstores, I was reading "New Wave" in the '80s, with a heavy dose of cyberpunk on top of it.

(Before anyone jumps on me, yes, my taste has improved. By several orders of magnitude.)

Re: not OP

[(Anonymous)]

ANGRY

There is nothing wrong with reading good science fiction. I mean, there's nothing wrong with reading bad science fiction either, but there's nothing that you should feel reproachable in reading good science fiction, and much New Wave SF is quite good (I mean, Ballard, Tom Disch, Sam Delany, Tiptree, UKLG, M John Harrison - I would argue that these are authors who you can stand up against literary fiction and feel comfortable with the comparison).

But yes please make booksecrets, all the booksecrets

[(Anonymous)]

Its a secret about the Harvard Classics Library series. AKA, The Five Foot Shelf Of Books. Its 50 books filled with the most classic stories to date, from The Grimms Fairy Tales to Shakespeare's plays. I have them in my home library and they never fail to amuse, they are a great way to get into great stories and poetry that you would otherwise miss or ignore. I highly reccomend them.