/lit/ - Literature

how goes it, /lit/?

I asked a German friend a few years ago why Rhine Monkeys always use smiley faces when they chat online.

he told me that simplified German language always sounds harsh and you rely on emoticons to express the emotional sentiment of your statement

is this accurate?

>>2412547

Name one.

>In short, we do not know who organized the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, or any other related assaults, though it would be a credulous fool who swallowed the (unsupported) word of Osama Bin Laden that his group was the one responsible. An attempt to kidnap or murder an ex-president of the United States (and presumably, by extension, the sitting one) would be as legally justified as the hit on Abbottabad. And America is an incarnation of the Third Reich that doesn't even conceal its genocidal methods and aspirations. This is the sum total of what has been learned, by the guru of the left, in the last decade.

>>2258270

And what would you say about an Atheist who would say of a religious person 'I hope his mind is at rest and free from the grasp of totalitarian religious judgement'?

>>2226034

He's not right wing. Although binary political parameters don't really fit him, in his views predominantly categorise him as a socialist thinker.

Maybe you're thinking of his brother, Peter.

Everybody does have a book in them, but in most cases that's where it should stay.

>>2111740

a style best suited for his journalistic work and essays, though. Martin Amis's comments came from reading the words 'ruggedly handsome feeatures' on the first page of 1984.

He's just mad because Hitchens is a better writer than him.

"In short, we do not know who organized the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, or any other related assaults, though it would be a credulous fool who swallowed the (unsupported) word of Osama Bin Laden that his group was the one responsible. An attempt to kidnap or murder an ex-president of the United States (and presumably, by extension, the sitting one) would be as legally justified as the hit on Abbottabad. And America is an incarnation of the Third Reich that doesn't even conceal its genocidal methods and aspirations. This is the sum total of what has been learned, by the guru of the left, in the last decade."

-Christopher Hitchens on Noam Chomsky

George Orwell died 1 year after Christopher Hitchens was born. Is Hitchens the (symbolic) reincarnation of Orwell?

If so, and in view of Hitchen's impending death who will the great polemic oversoul choose next?