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This. Ahah, having read the thread til the last page, my assumptions proved to be true. I knew you must've been a lit student at some point! My lecturer tells me there IS such thing as good lit and bad lit. Just because you like a piece of writing, it doesn't necessarily mean it's good. Like how millions love Twilight, but critics generally agree that it's bad literature. And just because you hate something, on the other hand, it doesn't mean that the literature is bad. I, for one, hate TS Eliot's The Waste Land, and may never understand why it is deemed one of the 20th Century's most important poems... The lecturer pointed out that good literature must have these traits: 1. Cosmic and human significance: Meaning the work of literature must stand for something bigger. It must be relevant to society, etc. 2. Aesthetics. Meaning... beautiful language. Formalists would argue beautiful language is anything that is outside of normal, everday language. "Literature is an organized violence committed on ordinary speech," says Roman Jakobson, a Russian Formalist critic. 3. Literariness. I'm still figuring out what this means. Jakobson says literature must have literariness, which are "devices that distinguish literary language from ordinary language." This probably explains why John Donne's sermons are included in the literature canon, as are some of George Orwell's essays. 4. Canon. The work of literature must be included in the canon. I don't really agree with this point, because more and more universities these days that study modern and post colonial literature are disregarding the canon as the canon was earlier established by an elite group of people who were mostly western men... When studying literature, there are different schools of thought. One school of thought may completely disagree with another. For example, Russian Formalists look at literature as art just for "art's sake", while Marxists believe that literature is the work of an entire society, and not just the writer's. So what's good literature? I'm still trying to figure that out... But I do believe that cosmic and human significance as well as aesthetics and literariness elevates a piece of text from being your average words on some paper, to literature.

This is really good! And yes, it reminds me of U2, too! And a bit of Coldplay's 42. Good work!

I understand friends come and go, but I never thought you'd be one to leave me.

I can't believe Boom Boom Pow won best video. Seriously? Boriiing!

Ehem. The Scientist. Nobody said it was easy Oh I just let out another fart. Nobody said it was easy No one ever said pooping would be this hard. When will I get it out?

:/ I never got mine, either... And i don't know if they received mine yet...

Ah, SueDeNimes! The photo I was talking about is in the 'Remember that woman we thought was Chris's sister' thread! EDIT: The photo is in both threads! :awesome:

GUY IS SEX ON FIRE!!! :laugh4: :wideeyed:

Here's a photo from the band's last.fm page... I used to have a pap-taken photo of Chris and a few of his siblings in my old pc, but that's gone... It was the one of him and his sister (I think), and a younger brother, and they were strolling around with Apple in a pram... Maybe someone else here has the photo, since I took it from this board...

What's CSC? Chinese Sleep Chant? Yes! Cool song! :laugh4: I don't even know what we're talking about here anymore... emilythea, how did your friend manage to do that? Have you put a password in your pc? If not, do it! Or just kill that dude. XD

Shoot you guys have made me hungry. I'm gonna go eat now. Thanks, you guys. :laugh4: Ahlem saying alamak was the cutest thing everrrr.

COLDPLAY ON UGLY BETTY!!! And it's not Lost, either... It's Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas! Weee!

Haha let me share this with you then... Yeah. Notice how the fact that the tamil word sounds like the malay word kunci is so apt? I mean, you put a kunci in a lubang kunci... :laugh3::laugh3::laugh3:

Oh yay I've been pronouncing it correctly, then! Haha. Apparatjik with a 'j' sound is cool, too, and it would sound more similar to the cool fan title 'Apparatchick'... Haha. :laugh3:

Weee! Roadie 42 is happy Coldplayers ended up with a lot of the stuff, too! :D :dance:

Aw, I love that one. So touching!

I urban-dictionaried lampa! I learned something new today, too. :shocked3: :sick: I also learned something new just the other day... But it's too dirty so maybe I shouldn't disclose anything here... About the word 'kunci' and what it sounds like to people who speak tamil... Is it raining tonight? I love it when it rains at night!

Dried? Bucket For A Crown! I awake

I think someone might have mistaken District 9 for...er... Red Light District?

I googled that. :laugh3: I just learned something new today. :stunned:

What's integration? :laugh3: Maths is so :awesome:...Just as long as I don't have to do it... Emilythea, MA is Master of Arts, while MSc is Master of Science... :D RUDY! How can you not know I went to St Johns? Haha! Who's your best friend? I might know him! We Johannians are a tight-knit group, you know! Although maybe when I was there he was only Form 1? Speaking of Johannians, Aizat has just won Juara Lagu a few minutes ago... I think, anyway... people on my facebook are so kecoh about it, so I thought I'd spread the news... But I doubt anyone here cares. Hahah. I always thought his songs were dull, but whatevs. Faizal Tahir should've won... DON'T THROW STONES AT ME! :P

:laugh3: Wait! Not the eye rolling one! I meant this one: :dozey: When someone puts that smiley at the end of a sentence aimed at me and with the intention to humiliate, then it's offensive. Heee.

:rolleyes: For some strange reason, I find this one highly offensive...

That is hilarious... Cheapskates... Haha. But seriously, so good of them to not waste any new paper...

Purty! :D