/lit/ - Literature

>How to improve school system
Stop trying to profit off it?

Someone the other day was saying school's need shit like big fancy libraries to attract students, even if they're full of crap, and I've been thinking a bit about that. If schools need to attract lots of kids then they don't care about anything but looking cool and reputation. I suppose they work on keeping job placement up, but that's about all that's useful.

Also, getting a English / Art / Philosophy / etc degree is pretty ridiculous in this day and age. The access to learning materials is higher than ever (internet), books are cheaper than ever (get exactly the book you need off Amazon, used, for 1/10 the price), and I can't think of a third point. Basically, you can make your own education these days, so if you want to learn you just learn. Sometimes, I just wish there was some certification test I could take that would say, "You've read a shit ton, you can write, you have the GED version of an English degree."

>>1569097
>can we bum
Nice work.

>>1568476
>I was more trying to go for the back of a romance novel, but meh.
No, I got that.

>>1568760
>robot given sentience
I like that concept. Stealing it.

>>1568989
>everyone walks the dinosaur
You use a lot of fucking adjectives. Read On Writing by Steve King.

Golf clap.

>>1569078
I meant, how do I do that without all the work?

He's got a lot of initials in his name

>>1568688
>what is truth
I can't stand that sort of shit. How about, have a system of beliefs that doesn't require "what is truth what is good what right" questions. Not that hard.

Don't fuck kids. Why? Because kids get fucked up in the head when you fuck them. How do I know? Because of the mountains of data that have been accumulated on this subject? This is not brain surgery.

>>1569033
>As if. It's used bookstores, the "mom and pop shops," that are putting Borders out of business-- well, at least pushing them to bankruptcy.
You know how they have that MAXIMUM TROLLING macro? Imagine there was one that said MAXIMUM WAT

>>1569045
I'd like to be that sort of journalist.

How do I get to do that?

>>1569000
>It depends on how one defines 'you'.
Nice trips, but you sound like a fucking asshole.

What I'm thinking.

>Well I suppose this is better than all the D&E bullshit I started. Sorry guys.

>Random.org, 0-99
92: Erotic soldiers. No.
99: Erotic animals. : |

>Random.org 0-89
14: Crime Farmers

“I don’t know what you’re talking about, boss.”

The farmer’s skin was rough from years of sun. His clothes were in bad shape too, his jeans covered in paint from a dozen odd jobs, and the knees were nearly worn through.

“Can I get back to work?”

“You’re not going anywhere, son,” the cop said. The farmer was in his forties.

“I don’t know anything about any dead girl, you can’t take me anywhere.”

“I didn’t say anything about a girl.”

Horror implies not real.

That was a big one for me growing up. The version I heard (oral tradition, yo) is pretty different from the standard one.

>>1568311
Yeah, it has to do with that guy D&E, right?

>>1568255
>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depersonalization

>>1568232
>poetics wiki
>Poetics refers generally to the theory of literary discourse and specifically to the theory of poetry, although some speakers use the term so broadly as to denote the concept of "theory" itself.

I was looking for a definition, not a homework assignment

So what are poetics again?

>>1568141
>>1568141
Read the whole thread.

>>1568136
Does anyone know what he's talking about?

>>1568131
inb4 D&E autopost

>>1568121
Try not having a little dick.

>>1568099
>99
I don't

>>1568113
If I was you, I'd major in either History or Literature.

>>1568100
Lol'd a image macro from a shit movie?

Have you heard of media before?