/lit/ - Literature

>>3976398
He is popular in my house and with my oldest son's friends

>>3958629
....I was going to argue, but...

>>3944221
...
Not to nitpick too much but - Lovecraft wasn't a novelist.

>>3945281
The State in the Third Millenium

>>3910193
Sometimes.
Other times it is critically important.

>>3909541
well said

>>3911044
/thread

>>3892654
nope

>>3890156
6/10, well done

>>3890136
As a Catholic I'm a Thomist, essentially

>>3879229
>>3879232
Sorry my opinion differed from yours.
I agree that it is a light read which is why I also think that, and over 1,100 pages in the paperback, it is overly long.

>>3879153
Of course

>>3878732
Overly long
very contrived plot
unrealistic in that an outsider gained such access
a simple retelling of actual Japanese history would have been more interesting.

>>3866482
My father graduated 3rd in his Med School class in 1953 - of course, that's because he was getting his PhD in Mathematics at the same time.
He reads/writes/speaks Latin, Greek, German, French, and Spanish.
He used to take me on long drives to drill me on logic and rhetoric.
My 12th birthday present was a collection of Machiavelli.
I love guys like that - its like visiting home.

>>3862153
You know what I love best about Chomsky?
He leaves his multi-million dollar home in an elite, lilly-white neighborhood (all paid for from the large fees he is paid by the Department of Defense) to fly first class to various universities where he is paid his $50,000 speaking fee to tell them the rich are telling them what to think.

>>3860874
I'm for it!

>>3859343
Found it
'The Stranger Beside Me'

>>3859154
Was that 'The Killer Beside Me'?

>>3858561
While not diminishing Lyotard's work, the movement of scientism in the modern age has been predictable and woefully self-destructive. Sam Harris is really just a symptom of the illiteracy of the literate.

>>3850624
The fact that *some* 'ignore' parts of the bible they don't understand reveals their shallowness of understanding.

>>3847592
Which journal? Because unless you are Leuven I don't recognize that from the Oxford Journal (unless it is upcoming).

>>3841776
Thank you!
I enjoyed that work a great deal and re-read it every other year or so.

>>3824617
>he was more or less a numskull
I did, indeed, LOL

>>3824372
A great writer whose works often rise above period pieces.