lake_awake posts Arlo Guthrie song lyrics to the literaryquotes community.

regyt points out: "That's from a song, not a book, though."

And cue pretentious wankery.

lake_awake: "if folksongs aren't literature, then oral tradition isn't literature, and if oral tradition isn't literature, then that's racist, elitist and impractical."

discotraxx: "i think you're exaggerating."

lake_awake: "We as a culture repress ourselves by allowing established academia to put relevant linguistic art on a pedastal by dubbing it the title "literature", while everything else is either pop culture or simply crap. No, I happen to believe that the dictionaries change with the public consensus on the definitions of words, and literature being tied down to the action of writing is a close-minded view. The high-art connotation of literature should also be used for oral tradition, performance, and talk. Drastic? Tearing down the illusory walls between the mundane and the sophisticated? Hallelujah, I say, Hallelujah."


And so forth. It's small, but it's WTF-worthy.