/lit/ - Literature

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>>17335918
You get a pat on the back just for being willing to admit that Biden got more votes.

>>17335878
There are plenty of reasonable criticisms you could make of Diogenes, but "too boring" isn't one of them. Read Penguin's collection of anecdotes of the Cynics.

>>17335830
You'll have to excuse me if I don't give your word the same weight as that of a world-famous theological writer whose work has been translated into over 20 languages.

>>17335775
According to noted theologian Jack Chick, it's actually a practice from ancient Egypt.

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>>17335611
This but unironically.

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>>17328452
"Lolita." When you turn 25 you'll be closer in age to Humbert than Lolita, for the first time.

>>17333265
>Marx thought "all cultures are valid"
>Marx thought capitalism was a "culture"

You're probably beyond help.

>>17332292
This is a good introduction for a complete beginner.

>>17329957
This is Old English:

>Hwæt! We Gardena in geardagum, þeodcyninga, þrym gefrunon, hu ða æþelingas ellen fremedon. Oft Scyld Scefing sceaþena þreatum, monegum mægþum, meodosetla ofteah, egsode eorlas. Syððan ærest wearð feasceaft funden, he þæs frofre gebad, weox under wolcnum, weorðmyndum þah, oðþæt him æghwylc þara ymbsittendra ofer hronrade hyran scolde, gomban gyldan. þæt wæs god cyning!

This is Middle English:

>Whan that Aprille with his shoures soote, the droghte of March hath perced to the roote, and bathed every veyne in swich licóur of which vertú engendred is the flour; whan Zephirus eek with his swete breeth inspired hath in every holt and heeth the tendre croppes, and the yonge sonne hath in the Ram his halfe cours y-ronne, and smale foweles maken melodye, that slepen al the nyght with open ye, so priketh hem Natúre in hir corages, thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages, and palmeres for to seken straunge strondes, to ferne halwes, kowthe in sondry londes; and specially, from every shires ende of Engelond, to Caunterbury they wende, the hooly blisful martir for to seke, that hem hath holpen whan that they were seeke.

"Moby-Dick" is in a somewhat archaic form of modern English.

>>17330859
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>>17330601
I suppose the road trip stood out to me because I actually like F. Scott Fitzgerald's books, so reading about him being whiny and high-maintenance especially tickled me.

>>17330583
I wasn't even aware that my opinion was a popular opinion.

>>17330770
He is very uncharitable toward his friends, and pretends to be uncharitable toward himself, which is part of what makes this book so entertaining to me -- not only is it gossipy, it pretends not to be gossipy. I have no trouble imagining that Fitzgerald was a terrible road trip partner, however.

>>17330729
>t. jealous straightoid

>>17329377
Anyone who's interested in this kind of thing should read this book.

>>17329404
That's sweet.

>>17329235
blah blah blah. Anyway, read "Ten Days That Shook the World," and maybe read Emma Goldman's books if you want an anti-Bolshevik perspective from an author who moved in the same circles as Reed.

>>17329069
>OP asks about Russian Revolution lit
>The conversation immediately sidetracks into coomer musings about what sub-ethnicities are best to fuck

>>17327786
I dislike Hemingway in general, but I thought this book was hilarious, especially Hemingway's road trip with Fitzgerald.

>>17328996
>He was also a cuck. Literally.
Yeah, he practiced "free love" like a lot of early-20th-century radicals. I'm saying you should read his book if you're interested in the October Revolution, not that you should adopt him as your personal role model.

>>17328923
He's the only Yank buried in the Kremlin; that's a distinction of sorts.

>>17328843
Look no further.