/lit/ - Literature

>>11844006
>the best way to understand an event is to write from as close a proximity to it as possible relying solely on your own hermeneutic abilities in interpreting primary sources that also come from as temporally close to the event as possible
Imbecile

>>10120665
keep telling yourself that

>>9727987
>>9728032
Am I wrong, you pansies? OP is fucking gay.

>>9606288
Also
>If I substitute 'spawned' for 'influenced by' then my proposition becomes less abhorrent
That's where you're wrong, queer
This completely changes the nature of your claim
To have an origin in something, as being spawned implies, is to be essentially linked to it of necessity
To be influenced by something is to be linked to it in a purely contingent way
The point doesn't carry as much gravity if you want to phrase it that way, and it was bullshit to begin with.

>>9261175
>Compares post style to Reddit
>Derides greentext
>Expects formalized logical refutations of shitposts
>On 4chan
>>>/b/

So was Plotinus just nuts? The Enneads seem to be just the ramblings of a madman who read too much Plato.