/lit/ - Literature

>the newbs don't know the glorious trolley problem threads
>tfw have to put down my comfy book to spend 20+ hours in MSPaint now
y u trade contrivance for moral?

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>not knowing about the trolley of trickery

>>5522050
How do they have a time machine

>>5388757
Its just such cringe worthy stuff going on there.

Its just drowning in a guilt and weighing social capital against one another, while at the same limiting one's self by accepting that one cant cope with whatever it is that is currently difficult.

I never got why people cant do both, try and control the internal and the external.

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>>4858397

Did anyone ever hear back from the agent who posted here a week back?

>>4762771
Forgot the pic lolololz

>>4762751
You've activated my trap card!
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2011/11/are-rereadings-better-readings.html

http://nplusonemag.com/mfa-vs-nyc

The author forgot one major cultural and productive center of the writing world

Mom's Basement

>>4427887

This thread was basically the pinnacle of /lit/.

>>3849794
>Trolley problem (five straight ahead, one on side track, turn requires switching, what ought one do?): switch or don't switch?

>Accept or lean toward: switch 2016 / 3226 (62.5%)
>Other 923 / 3226 (28.6%)
>Accept or lean toward: don't switch 287 / 3226 (8.9%)
UH OH

>>3810753

> The Nobel Prize
Since it's only going to be awarded to an author who has provided "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction," most Americans are out. Roth, McCarthy and Pynchon simply don't fall within the parameters.
To be fair, international authors are excluded as well. Coetzee is probably deserving and would be a hip pick as a South African, but isn't optimistic enough to qualify as 'ideal' under the current committee's understanding of Nobel's will. My bet is that Achebe wins it posthumously this year, even though Things Fall Apart is a downer.
Louise Erdrich is the only American dark horse, really.
Anyway,
> ITT: The most prestigious literature award is only given to happy endings and who will win next?
no one is talking about books, comeon now. is it just nighttime?

>>3755931
lrn2style, pleb