/lit/ - Literature

>>4804849
You mean you really don't know if there are books for kids that have pictures in them in America?

Good luck with your career!

>>4803985
He was the original 6edgy7ever overentitled angsty teen fuckface. Unfortunately, his shit has been around long enough that people think it's somehow more than it is. It isn't.

>>4804769
>most religious people aren't that way. Most aren't zealots.
Absolutely! But they follow zealots. And they're usually more than happy to look the other way or excuse the batshit results of that zealotry-- with or without the knowledge that their tacit support is what enables the zealot leadership in the first place.

The entire world has been insane with this nonsense for thousands of years, and the solution is simple and easy: Stop enabling this garbage. Is it responsible for some good things? Sure! But those things can happen without it just as easily. It's a stillborn necrotic baby that I'm more than happy to throw out along with WAY more bathwater than it ever warranted in the first place.

>>4804728
Ha! Saved, thanks.

>>4804734
>You are conflating so many things right now
No I'm not.
> it's just draining to even consider making a legitimate response to this kind of moronic pageantry
>I'm glad I don't recognise your name out of the regular fair of trips here. You seem like a fucking dullard.

^ all that means is that you're incapable of valid rebuttal, so you ink-squirt some ad-hominem and flee.

Sorry you're upset though.

>>4804702
>I don't think sanity is a fair comparison
I do. I think it's over-generous actually. I mean, I believe in the possibility that there's a black hole at the center of the galaxy, but I'm not willing to cut off a woman's clitoris over it.

Bat. Shit. Insanity.

>>4804686
I feel you. Look, I've been coming to /lit/ for years and years, and been on 4chan for many years before that. There will always be postmodernism threads. There will always be eReader threads. There will always be bookshelf threads. Ayn Rand and Twilight will always be the ultimate evil.

This same thing happens on all boards. That's why I posted Sakurafish-- because you actually DO reach a point where you like it. These lowest-common-denominator threads that get posted and reposted day after day, week after week? They're the background tapestry of the board. They're the hissing carrier wave. They're the blank, empty canvass upon which the GOOD content can stand out with higher relief.

They serve the good content; they are a slave to it. Don't be mad at OP, look down and smile at her!

>>4804688
Holy shit (pardon the pun) this is so true. Even if religion has asolutely zero personal meaning at all for you (as it doesn't for me) you still live in a world FULL of people for whom it's the most important thing in the world.

It's like being perfectly sane while living in an insane asylum and someone asking "When did insanity stop becoming important for you?"

>>4804680
>didn't get an iPad with retina display

>>4804674
I don't think it ever was important to me.

>>4804672
Where is it you think you are?

ur a fagit

>>4804630
I already told him that Anon, but he wasn't capable of understanding. I think he actually believes hes right, because he typed the most words. Argumentum ad wall-o-textum.

>>4804629
>ITS TECHNICALLY NOT A DRAGON GUIS

You missed your saving throw, nerd.

>>4804651
/thread

>>4804647
Dang! Thanks!

>>4804639
Sorry OP, I can't participate in your thread because I'm not a mincing, overwrought, talentless faggot.

You should get an iPad instead OP.

>>4804623
What kind of plane is that in your pic, OP? At first I thought it was a King Air because of the PT6A engines, but the windows are square and it just doesn't... look like a King Air, somehow. Any idea?

>>4803486
He didn't say Tolkien was a genre writer. Learn to read and understand words and you will shitpost less.

>>4802840
>my tiny clique of artfaggots is more objectively correct because reasons
^ this is you.

>>4802985
>if what you call "art" doesn't correspond closely to what most people say when they mean "art," you'd be better off avoiding that word all together.
Uh oh, lol.
>A "useful" definition of art must successfully describe what "common sense" or popular opinion understands to be art
OH LAWD
By your logic, "Twilight" must be high art. You know, because so many people like it so much.

>Your definition...
I thought I was clear that it was NOT my definition, just one that I adopted. Because I found it useful. Check your assumptions.
> A "secret sketchbook" surely doesn't have an audience,
Do you really believe that? Do you? I sincerely hope so, I would relish an opportunity to flay you where other people can see it. Oh wait! I just did!

Run and hide to lick your wounds, Anon.

>>4802738
>So when my roommate slides a check under my door for the rent, that's art?
>And when a shy teenager draws in a notebook that she will never show anyone, those drawings aren't art?
**SIGH**
FINE, I'll argue a little. Because it's fun to.

>So when my roommate slides a check under my door for the rent, that's art?
Yes, that can be a form of art.
>And when a shy teenager draws in a notebook that she will never show anyone, those drawings aren't art?
No, that is most definitely art.

COME AT ME BRO.

>>4802738
What part of "I'm not going to argue about it" did you have trouble understanding. I'm not responsible for your reading comprehension, chump. Go be fat and edgy somewhere else.