/lit/ - Literature

>>4050641
>becoming an intellectual.

Recommend some /lit/ approved fantasy.

>>3230665
She was a silly chit. In the preface to Shirley she says that unlike her last novel, this one is full of real unimbroidered life and its events. That is a filthy lie, Shirley is full of bourgeois propaganda, portraying the Luddites as drunken brutes and the capitalist as glorious and noble, also Methodists are scum. In order to achieve this, she incorporates into her inconsequential plot certain events of Luddite uprising which actually happened in that part of Yorkshire where the novel is set (and Dickinson lived herself for a while). However, she severly distorts what really happens in a prime example of ideology. You can't even say she didn't know better, because her biography gives us the newspaper articles she used as sources, and even to them there is a huge discrepancy. Wrote an undergrad paper on that using E.P. Thompson's The Making of The English Working Class.

>>2849680
>this is what people who think English lit dissertations are factually accurate actually believe
Uh-huh, and the Apollo program was a hoax, keep on revealing the magic tricks of history, you intrepid investigator you.

>>2623108

>admits he is the offspring of libtard closet pedophiles
>believes that makes him superior

Let's string together a Cool Story /lit/. Add onto the story as you see fit, let's see where it goes. I'll start it off pretty blandly, but let's get a good, laughable story going.

Rupert Crowe was a promising student in University. As a member of the Honors Society, he maintained straight A's throughout his undergraduate career. Do not think this meant much to me, but this was the only thing that Crowe was proud of anymore in his life. Recently, he had been ... BEGIN

>>2005370

Yeah, right. As if. Not even. Nuh-uh.

>>1950899
How does referencing God make someone believe in him? If I reference Bambi, do I believe in Bambi?

Fail comic made by butthurt Christfag is fail.

>>1929810

new levels of nonsense being reached in this post

I'm just waiting for a pointless fucking debate.

I'm going to get extremely high for the first time in a couple months or so tomorrow.

Recommend me something to attempt to start to read. My friend thinks it's going to be impossible.

Salvation is a dream. There is only damnation without even the heroics of either indulgence or abstinence. All is obscured: virtue is illusory, and sin is obsolete.

As long as capitalism provides enough artificial needs to keep people in a state of consumerist happiness nothing will change.
They are not stupid enough to risk destabilizing revolutions, and the only reason revolutions ever took place was because of widespread famine and poverty.
Even environment-wise, we already see huge new industries researching environmental friendly solutions.

Hey guys check out my slam poetry from when I was 17:


Nothing's transcendent, it's all trends settled: entrenched and hardened, old and yellowed, painted over, re-finished, and to the masses peddled.
The sales aren't broke so don't fix 'em, distractions are endless if we just re-glitz 'em and consumer polls prove we've got a helluva system.
You see, we trust in human frailties to breed insecurities when faced with impossibilities that are posed as realities. Fallacies abide when they provide a comfortable place to hide and make the ones with ordered lives rush to buy and buy and buy... It's been built up, and passed down, long before now society came right 'round to dollar bills wearing crowns, with the same sounds from the same mouths, the wealthy on TV frown like they care with hearts unbound about anything besides their wallet's weight in sterling pounds, the progress of this process moves forward in leaps and bounds, promises access to assets that on TV amaze and astound, but look around: take a peek behind the curtain, are you dead certain this isn't willful immersion in a skillful diversion? Perfect persons are paraded maybe to hold us degraded, a perversion of the good things that keep us satiated? For your own sake, you could take a commercial break or three to let a thought or two get free that's not another ad or fad telling you who to be.


Pt 2 incoming

>>1424251
Steinbeck had clearly identifiable themes. East of Eden was a re-telling of Cain and Able from a modern American perspective, I'm sure you're aware. Next you're going to tell me the Bible didn't have messages it tried to impart?
Of course it's all open to interpretation, and I know you're one of those "author's intent lel" types but we both know Steinbeck had themes and messages.
>The Rabbit Farm was just a farm for rabbits Lenny wanted.
Yeahokbro.

I laughed a little at the punchline, I raged a little at your shallowness.

Like the Norns of ancient Norse religion, we will review our past, present, and Future here. I can't find the last thread for this, or it simply disappeared. If there's one just point it out and I'll repost this there.

>LAST BOOK

Catch-22. I just wanted to re-read it for some reason. I was supposed to be reading Walden, but I got ADD and ended up with this instead. I shan't say anything about it because I've babbled about this book many a time in the Catch-22 threads and don't feel like repeating myself, but:

>[Clevinger] knew everything about literature except how to enjoy it.

That sounds awfully familiar. I seem to know some people who are just like Clevinger!. Anyway..

>PRESENT READ:

Hemingway - Men Without Women. It's thrilling. I just finished the tale of the bullfighter and was on the edge of my seat throughout it. Classic terse Hemingway prose that thrusts you ass-first into the action, just the way I like it. It's a little jarring from his previous work that I'd read earlier on, though, seeing as it wasn't a love story, but rather a tale of a man and a bull facing down in an arena. You actually feel the injuries the bullfighter feels.

>FUTURE READ:

Henry David Thoreau - Walden. Again. If I don't get ADD once more and preoccupy myself with another book. I just downloaded a fresh stack of E-books, too, so the likelihood of me being distracted is extremely high. Poor Thoreau may have to wait a while.

Share your reads, /lit/.

dude talks about hitting bongs at age 26 living in his mom's basement and throwing up and generally acting a fool and its all hilarious. Thats what the fuck is up

Hello! I'm looking for some good poems. Do you know so really good, intelligent authors? Please help cheers

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