/lit/ - Literature

>>17342370
What's non-lit about Only Lovers Left Alive?

>>17344461
>The Tommyknockers
>Organized and supplied chess clubs in rural villages across West Africa

>>17342791
>Timon of Athens
>Hamlet
>Macbeth

>>17343324
I think you’re missing my point. Of course people in the Third World who are deprived of proper education and who suffer malnutrition and malaria are worse off than we are in a significant way; however, they don’t necessarily experience more subjective suffering than we do. OP’s assertion that Third-Worlders can’t employ armor fati because they suffer too intensely is misguided.

>>17344421
Yes, but Dorian Gray is overrated imo. A lot of his poetry is also quite mannered.

>>17343707
These two sentences contradict one another.

>>17341529
And?

>>17339979
Deft insights into human psychology, that and puns. Lots of puns.

>>17340213
It was good, wasn't it? Have you read any of Philbrick's other work?

>>17341035
Fellow Alaskafag?

>>17341209
https://www.deccanchronicle.com/technology/in-other-news/250520/dont-let-big-tech-turn-the-world-into-a-china-noam-chomsky-warns.html

>>17340998
>Wtf? Then they should be sending me foreign aid.
What "foreign aid" do you expect will stop you from being a self-pitying NEET?

>>17340493
McGonagall really exemplifies a number of horrendous pre-20th-century poetic vices, and combines them with the attitude that as long as a line rhymes it must be poetic.

So many of his poems read like:

>blah blah blah blah blah blah SAY
>blah blah blah blah blah blah BAY
>blah blah blah blah blah blah LAY
>blah blah blah blah blah blah MAY

So you have this combination of horribly obvious, almost singsong rhymes, along with a meter that's mangled almost out of all recognition: the excessive obviousness of the one accentuates the obscurity of the other. McGonagall's poetry is, above all things, unintentional, which is probably the worst thing poetry can be.

And let's not forget the time he rhymed "buttresses" with "confesses."

>>17340754
I see them mentioned on here, or one book refers to another. I've never worried about running out; I more often have the opposite problem.

>>17340862
I had a friend who was a full-time Chatterton fan. We fell out of touch and when I looked him up to get back in touch I found out he'd killed himself. I think I'm still in denial about it. He was an interesting person.

>>17337013
>there's no way that I can back this up with any concrete evidence, but I have theory about [person]: he is a pedophile
This is certainly a popular line of thought these days.

>>17340216
Good answer.

>>17340396
>Yeah ok, fellas. I'm sitting on my ass, wearing a fuzzy bath robe, drinking coffee and chatting with idiots online, while some skinny negro eats rice for dinner after a day of hard labor, and I'm suffering in life just as much as him. Heck, he should feel sorry for me! I'm sure you're in the same boat; I bet your existential angst is way worse than going to bed hungry.

You jest, but what you say is fundamentally true. It's possible to experience material comforts and still be overwhelmingly neurotic and self-torturing. I've known illiterate, malnourished hut-dwellers who were, in some sense, much better off than some of the self-pitying NEETs I've met on this site.

I'll reiterate that I'm not arguing that education, health, etc. aren't actual problems, only that an illiterate, malnourished Third-Worlder doesn't necessarily experience more subjective suffering than a First-Worlder. I don't see why the concept of amor fati would be less useful for a "poor kid born in Africa" than for you or me.

>>17339504
>I gonna just go ahead and say it: Africans (or anyone) who die of famine as children suffur way less than people who live full lives. They die before they have any sense of mortality, and never have to live through the many emotional pains of human life.
But would you say they have better lives than we do because of that?

>>17339484
fpbp

>>17339220
KCRW's "Left, Right and Center" is pretty damn civilized.

NPR's morning news podcast is concise and factually reliable, though the tone is often a bit grating.

>>17339266
>My parents had some version of amor fati and crawled out of the third world. Got college degrees then worked as dry cleaners in America.
Nicely done. Sometimes it takes an almost superhuman level of energy and persistence to make it from the Third World to the First by legitimate means.

>>17339187