/lit/ - Literature

>>9426392
>I watched The Avengers but I don't feel smarter
>yo I sat through Pacific Rim but my IQ is the same!!!
>Transformers didn't educate me at all

Homer is not supposed to make you smarter. Iliad and Odyssey are mood music for starting with the Greeks. Graves' The Greek Myths will give you more mythical context and some speculation on their meaning. If you really want to keep going, read Herodotus/Thucydides/Xenophon. Or skip to Livy/Plutarch/Tacitus and get with the Romans. If you want to get to the getting-smart material, read Plato and watch the pre-Socratics get BTFO.

>>9426350
Incidentally, it's AMC/Jeep not FCA. My old bucket is more reliable, capable, and cost me 1/10th what anon paid for a new Civic, and the environmental cost was amortized over 20 years. The earth and sky of 2017 were not harmed by its manufacture. It's not better than "anything" it's better than nothing, which is what NYC anon has. l2comprehend and stay mad.

>>9426350
>>9426358
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Isa 53:3

So many programmed anons ITT.

>>9426270
Probably a couple things. What's wrong with you? I guess you are either a fan of New York City or an apologist for parenthood. A fascist enforcer of gender roles and cultural expectations.

Listen carefully: those parents who regret having children already know the truth of what I say. They know it better than you do. And those anons who exist under the delusion they "want" kids when they really just want to repair their own childhood trauma would benefit from what I have said. It may spare some poor soul from a neglectful existence. Kiss my ass and everything in it.

>>9425239
>Poetry (all kinds)

You didn't deserve Tennyson, anyway.


There lies the port; the vessel puffs her sail:
There gloom the dark, broad seas. My mariners,
Souls that have toil'd, and wrought, and thought with me—
That ever with a frolic welcome took
The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed
Free hearts, free foreheads—you and I are old;
Old age hath yet his honour and his toil;
Death closes all: but something ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.

>>9426086
>>9426038
>>9426005
This is the meme thread, anon. Your paeans to a mythical respectability natural to adulthood are heart breaking. It is evident to me that you don't know about what you speak. You present what you lack. I have seen great men caged. Had friends who prefered to be shot or hanged rather than live in the 21st century. I know myself, and have a cooler car then you.

>>9426038
JEJ

>>9426005
Show me your proofs.

>>9425971
I would say Texas but fuck off we're full. PNW. Nevada, New Mexico. Literally anywhere but NYC.

t. have lived in Hawaii, D.C., Texas, Florida, and been all over between.

>>9425979
Resentment is natural and inevitable. Man was not made for monogamy. Also, children. Fuuuuck that. Once you have kids your life is over. Hope you did everything you wanted to do, famalam, cuz u 1 foot in the grave.

>>9425937
The NYT has been a trash rag for decades and NYC is an overpriced shithole that attracts shallow, money-obsessed plebs and mediocre talent.

>>9423229
Galapagosbro you are correct. Vonnegut is not GREAT, but he has some solid works under him. Not all of his novels are really worth reading but some are can't miss.

>>9423207
nah m8 i read ur mums pussy lips last night

fortune sez ur mums gonna die tonight better get a job eh

>>9423009
I read 3-4 of his books when I was inna early 20s. He's a good bloke, and a veteran. Aces.

>>9422696
I don't get it. Her lanky Kentucky genes can't hide from me. She is Clarice Starling who became an addle-brained pop star instead of joining the FBI. She is completely average cornpone country pussy. All of you are thirsty for a troglodyte.

>>9422464
mfw the OGs anticipated and solved existentialism 104000 weeks ago

>>9421817
>>>/k/

>>9422211
i dunno what do you want to start with

>>9422155
checked, but wrong. OP is making fun of Sam Harris using an overwrought vocabulary to hide from his destiny as king of the pseuds.

>>9421779
Jacqueline Woodson (she signed my copy of Locomotion!!!)
Frantz Fanon
Thomas Sowell

>>9421767
Stop being a forum queer, anon. It was a good discussion.

>>9421787
OP btfo, prolapsed rectum will never recover.

>>9421740
http://bestsellers.lib.virginia.edu

>>9419481
Five books that every normie can and should read to be considered basically literate:

The Bible
Aurelius' Meditations
Aesop
Homer's Odyssey
Graves' The Greek Myths

And five more to be a good citizen.

Plato's Complete Works
Enchiridion of Epictetus
Apuleius' The Golden Ass
Campbell's Masks of God
Bernays' Propaganda

>>9420048
2 Corinthians 5:14. Every day is judgment day. The kingdom of heaven is with us.

Isaiah 45:7. "I form the light and create darkness, I bring prosperity and create disaster; I, the Lord, do all these things."