/lit/ - Literature

Sounds cool

Ignore the impostors. It is I, Corazon Di Poeta.

>>2265466

That didn't work as expected.

>>2242453
Oops, I forgot my pic.

>>2242446
I've admitted numerous times to not reading. See pic related.

For the record, I just want to say that vaginas are gross and I can't see why anyone would want anything to do with them.

I just wanted to say that I fuckin love A Song of Ice and Fire.

And subjectivity is great, too.

Hmmmm

yo

my trip is

##isfuckingawesomesci

I quit /lit/

love yall.

the green light.


No, seriously, personally i really like his prose. Its almost lyrical, you can really sense how hard he worked to get every word just right.

>>2241930

I dont think brave new world was meant to be strictly dystopian.

IMO huxley simply sat down, and used his knowledge of science and human nature to think up a stable end point for our society. Intellectually, from a utilitarian standpoint, he couldnt argue against the world he had crafted, and to an extent he thought it was a good idea. However, he had an inherent distaste for it.

So he embodied the 'human spirit' and 'romanticism' he felt, in the (this term is important) 'savage.'

I dont believe he thought what he had written about was necessarily a dystopia, i think he was deeply conflicted about the concept, it was part warning, part prediction, part prescription.

Bakunin for anarchy
Marx for collectivism

'Civilian Control of the Military' is a book that gets at one of the cornerstone arguments between collectivists and anarchists.

Ayn Rand is good for individualism
Nietzsche

John Stewart Mill is somewhat collectivist with utilitarian ethics although not necessarily.

>>2241911
I'm glad you caught what i did there.

See, 'film' has kind of artsy connotations.

'movie' is more of a general entertainment and popcorn term

:)

>>2241899

If you're not gay for Alec Baldwin, then you're a fucking faggot.

All of Aesop's fables

http://www.textfiles.com/stories/aesopa10.txt

>>2241882

Its a good movie, and proved to the world that even bald, natalie portman is bangable

I realize its not Seven Samurai or something, but it isnt a bad film.

Have not touched the graphic novel but I hear its better

I thought catcher was extremely boring. Although after i read it, I did start calling everyone around me a phony.

OMG HIS HAT IS THE SAME COLOR AS HIS DEAD BROTHERS HAIR

Terrible writing style, as far as I know it only held the attention of angst ridden faggots (probably most of this board) and as I suffered from relative social normalcy, i found holden to be a giant bitch

>>2241870
Obviously I mean

*should

This site has thousands of textfiles

http://www.textfiles.com/directory.html

I'm trying to browse through the bullshit and get at some gems, if anyone wants to search it with me, share interesting stuff in this thread.

Here is its book section
http://www.textfiles.com/etext/

>>2241819

Finals next week, i've had to put it off. Will finish it over my winter break. Shouldnt only take like, 2 days

yes. People get paid for those books that have the text on one side and a 'translation' into plain English

my friend has one that translates Shakespeare into ebonics, its rather hilarious

>>2241855


If you're just board at work, this site will end that

http://www.textfiles.com/directory.html

if textfiles.com doesnt work

www.tvtropes.org never fails

>>2241821

why doesnt she just eagles

>>2241824

If you're insane you're going through an episode.

If you're lucid you're not.
So I would say my statement was true by definition. Although you're right you might go through periods of lessened and greater insanity without ever achieving complete normalcy. Even during remission most schizos have really odd beliefs.