. "Literary criticism, or lit crit, is a deliberate and systematic approach to decapitating, dismembering, and disemboweling an author, figuratively speaking, who, on his (or, occasionally, her) worst day can write better than the critic who, in most instances, is illiterate and intellectually dense. Literary critics contend that their \u201Cevaluation\u201D of the merit of a literary work will help others, who are too stupid to comprehend the word as it is written, to understand and appreciate all the squiggly black marks on the pages of the book that the critic is appraising. Some critics believe themselves to have devised a theory as the basis for their criticism, whereas others simply write, as it were, from the hip. The term \"Lit Crit\" is a common slang for Literarry Criticism and can be used in p"@en . "Literary Criticism"@en . "Literary criticism, or lit crit, is a deliberate and systematic approach to decapitating, dismembering, and disemboweling an author, figuratively speaking, who, on his (or, occasionally, her) worst day can write better than the critic who, in most instances, is illiterate and intellectually dense. Literary critics contend that their \u201Cevaluation\u201D of the merit of a literary work will help others, who are too stupid to comprehend the word as it is written, to understand and appreciate all the squiggly black marks on the pages of the book that the critic is appraising. Some critics believe themselves to have devised a theory as the basis for their criticism, whereas others simply write, as it were, from the hip. The term \"Lit Crit\" is a common slang for Literarry Criticism and can be used in phrases such as \"Ay yo gimme some of dat lit crit son.\" or \"Damn, shorty got some nice lit crit skillz.\""@en . .