/lit/ - Literature

>>17289771
This is genuinely better than the original.

>>17287937
I read "The Philosophy of '50 Shades of Grey,'" and I watched "There Will Be Blood," and the movie was WAY better than the book, I don't know what you're talking about.

>>17290444
I'd say, yeah, start with "Lolita." "Pnin" is also good, as are his short stories. Definitely don't start with "Pale Fire" or "Invitation to a Beheading."

>>17289832
>if virtues is all there is then is a well trained dog the perfect stoic since it has courage, temperance, justice and wisdom?
A dog lacks wisdom (for obvious reasons), and anyone who's "well-trained" possibly lacks the flexibility necessary for justice. Anyway, we all know dogs are natural Cynics.

>>17289180
Set a very, VERY modest daily goal. Like, five pages a day. Even one page a day is better than nothing. When that's become habitual -- more comfortable to do than it is not to do -- increase the number of pages.

>>17288077
Journalism can be /lit/ if you find the right venue.

>>17289963
"Be virtuous."

>>17289616
I've donated to Wikipedia. It seems like the learning curve to actually edit Wikipedia is pretty steep.

>>17288428
die

>>17287270
Good grief, it's just a pithy quotation. Calm down. I wasn't really venturing to explain the failure of socialism in American in a single sentence.

>>17288012
delet this

(The poetry, not the thing about WCW being a hack.)

>>17288113
They're fine. Not exactly an aesthetic delight, but if you want a copy of Marlowe's "Tamburlaine" or something like that, bound by itself, it's pretty much your only good option.

>>17288138
A completely black shirt that is also completely white at the same time.

>>17286353
>If we can only think of things that can exist/happen,
That's a big "if."

>>17287217
"Socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires."

I know it hardly counts as literature, but I was just reflecting that, although I first read "My Immortal" over a decade ago, I still find it uproariously funny. I still struggle not to laugh out loud when I read certain passages.

>>17285906
Ha ha, she's not a Maserati-driving CEO, how humiliating.

>>17285287
Why would you want to understand them? I mean, you're already so much better and smarter than they are.

>>17286204
Jeez, and I thought *I* loved Nabokov's prose.

>>17286187
Read Seneca before you judge; he's in favor of periodically getting shitfaced (for philosophical reasons).

>>17286118
Everyone (including most cover designers) forgets how funny the book is. This is one of the only Lolita covers I've seen that I think works at all.

>>17285986
It really depends. Grad school was a total waste of time in itself, but it makes my resume look better.

>>17285900
Better, WHY would you find arthoe gf?