/lit/ - Literature

Yes, because when Aristophanes wrote the Lysistrata it was with the intention that in thousands of years, historians would have a means of evaluating how the women of ancient Athens may have lived. If not, it would be absurd to use his works for that purpose.

>>2805650
Alternatively, you could read this sentence:
Nothing matters, you knew that right?

>>2804659
i don't read christian books because all christian books are jewish influenced

Tolkien's influences were historical epics, so he wouldn't have been drawing a division between the influences of the bible and the rest of his influences - you know, as they were of the same literary tradition. Obviously, his readings of the bible would've been the most impacting. Thus, you get resemblances, just like you'll find resemblances with the Iliad, the Odyssey and Beowulf, though not as many.

>>2804699
So, we don't have free will in heaven?

>>2804685
If the main character is gay, then it would, as I didn't get any hits from typing 'sex' into ctrl+f on the wiki.

>>2804675
Do we allow it to exist in heaven as well?

I used to think about shapes a lot. As in, how a blank space on a wall would have infinite potential, could be any shape, until someone actually took a marker, or a knife, and made an exact shape out of it, but even then there were infinite possibilities within that shape again, and about what it would mean for that new shape to be inside another shape - was the space contained in the first shape smaller now, or did it include the smaller shape as well? What was the smaller shape if it was still just a piece of the space occupied by the original shape?
I was a distracted child.

As a human, is it worth reading fossils from the Mesozoic era, dominated as it was by dinosaurs?

>>2802425
>As a person who writes using a computer, is it worth reading books written before the invention of computers?

John Ciardi, or C.H. Sisson. Now, get.

>>2802993
>GR is almost (ALMOST) incomprehensible
It says a lot about the community of /lit/ that they consider Gravity's Rainbow an intellectual challenge.

>>2802962
>implying... woah. I never thought about it that way.

>>2802818
I'll save you the effort and point out that the last sentence is spent explaining why democracy is good.

Sartre's Nausea. I wanted to read Rand's Atlas Shrugged, but it's no available on my E-Reader.