/lit/ - Literature

>ὣς Ἀχιλεὺς λαιψηρὰ πόδας καὶ γούνατ’ ἐνώμα.
>Τὸν δ’ ὃ γέρων Πρίαμος πρῶτος ἴδεν ὀφθαλμοῖσι
>παμφαίνονθ’ ὥς τ’ ἀστέρ’ ἐπεσσύμενον πεδίοιο,
>ὅς ῥά τ’ ὀπώρης εἶσιν, ἀρίζηλοι δέ οἱ αὐγαὶ
>φαίνονται πολλοῖσι μετ’ ἀστράσι νυκτὸς ἀμολγῷ·
>ὅν τε κύν’ Ὠρίωνος ἐπίκλησιν καλέουσι.
>λαμπρότατος μὲν ὅ γ’ ἐστί, κακὸν δέ τε σῆμα τέτυκται
>καί τε φέρει πολλὸν πυρετὸν δειλοῖσι βροτοῖσιν·
>ὣς τοῦ χαλκὸς ἔλαμπε περὶ στήθεσσι θέοντος.

>>19940666
>anti-Christian post gets 666 trips right when it rejects Christ
uhhhh... atheistbros???

Do people actually work more than 3 hours a day? How?

I was never confirmed in the Catholic Church. I was only baptized and had First Communion. How fucked am I? Am I going to hell?

>>18519648
>tfw I went to an acupuncturist or whatever they're called when I was around 15 because of a sweating problem and he stuck a needle on the top of my head
He told me to come back because he wasn't finished after the first session but I never did. Am I fucked?

>parents aren't really practicing christians but wanted to baptize me when I was a baby anyway
>allegedly when the priest put me on his lap I took his cross and flipped it upside down and started hissing or some shit (not even larping this is literally what my mother told me)
>priest left and I wasn't baptized
I'm not a Christian because I can't really suspend my disbelief regarding most events in the Bible but what the fuck does this mean? When I think about it I'm always spooked

>500 word essay due tomorrow
>haven't started yet

>Book has no author

Why is the book of judges so fucked up?
>Concubine raped and cut up
>Man's eyes gouged out
>Seventy sons killed

>>17694072
>I translated a poem for a pedophile
>A little Quebecoise could be raped because of me
>I could be in trouble for that
H-how old are you anon?

>>17674076
Tha...that...that image is moving...O_O

>>17597310
I get that this is a meme but this guy actually sounds like a sociopath/psychopath.
Maybe we shouldn't encourage this guy to become a lawyer at all?

>introduction is written by a woman
>she makes everything about herself and her personal opinion

I was supposed to be taking notes?

>>17145280
>tfw 24

>woman writes preface
>makes everything about herself and her personal opinion

>>16983584
Where and when?

>>16894281
i-is he? w-who was he influenced b-b-by?

I got into Western philosophy because I was tired of being a friendless, miserable fuck and wanted to at least understand my condition. I am thoroughly confused because I don't what I'm supposed to be reading. I heard about Schopenhauer and purchased a bunch books starting from the Pre-Socratics and was planning on building my way up to The World as Will and Representation. I recently found Zizek and fell into the Lacan, Hegel, Heidegger, etc. rabbit hole and I find them equally, if not more fascinating than Schop. What the fuck do I do?

>>16444360
>If I met Hobbes in the street I would flash him my tits
Why is this ignored?

>Author threatens the reader

>Checkout the first volume of “The Civil War: A Narrative” by Shelby Foote from the local library
>It’s leather with gold accents and is signed by the author
>neat
>Research this copy of the book on the internet
>It’s a rare collector’s series edition
>A single book is worth a couple hundred dollars
>The gold on the book is real with genuine leather and the author who signed it is dead
>The whole volume is worth over $1,000
>mfw the checkout receipt for the book says the replacement cost is $30
Do they not know what they have here? I feel sick reading this book. It’s more of a work of art, an artifact. Should I take it back and tell them this isn’t just some library history book? I feel like this thing should be protected in a collection. Some of the gold edging on the pages is rubbing off very slightly on my fingers as I turn the pages and it’s giving me a panic attack.

>be socialist
>read free to choose and basic economics
>realize that wage labor is a voluntary exchange that necessarily benefits both the employer and the employee and that this is okay
>realize the power of the efficient, unbureaucratic free market that's nonetheless able to coordinate the efforts of people all over the world to produce things like a pencil for spare change
>tfw no longer a socialist

>>16238506
I'm not a pedophile but when I accidentally clicked on your image, against my will and defying my chaste and holy intentions, I noticed in my peripheral vision that her swimsuit doesn't fit properly in the lower area