/lit/ - Literature

>>11864105
>China's Christian population is on track to be the largest in the world by 2030, and this has everything to do with the Boxer Rebellion

>>10630330
>go to used bookstore
>only person working is a cantankerous old woman
>sell all my Star Wars EU books hoping to get some cash
>"Sorry we only do store credit"
>OK.jpg
>Put store credit slip on shelf in bedroom
>~8 years later
>Go back to store
>Old lady is still the only person in the store
>Finally find a copy of Redemption Ark by Alastair Reynolds after reading Revelation Space around the time I originally sold those Star Wars books (almost a decade ago), some vintage Asimov that I hadn't read yet, the list goes on
>Realize I still have my store credit slip
>Almost $70 in store credit from selling fucking Star Wars books when I was in high school
>Afraid to go in with it because the old lady might judge me for holding on to it for so long
wat do

>>10233440
Hmmmm

>mfw simply pursuing the cultivation of virtue and the attainment of actionless action while people are out toppling statues and calling 'anti-fascism' a moral crusade rather than a political vehicle

>>9779172
>mfw I read that LIFE Magazine article about anthropologists tripping with nahuatl-speaking tribesmen in Mexico and thought it was cool but then I found out the entire journalism industry is a psyop and always was
Sometimes I feel like a bad trip I had was actually my brain being reprogrammed by nanites installed by the CIA to make me into a sleeper agent for the deep state. But there's a 99% chance that this didn't happen.

>People ITT genuinely believe that reading Siddhartha gives insight into the teachings of the Buddha

>>9622077
Still better than Infinite Jest

>Having good discussion about history, politics, literature and philosophy with smart English major friends
>Chemistry major friend makes us stop talking about it because it involves too much abstract thought & gets too close to real issues
>Proceeds to start rattling off chemical equations that no one in the conversation but him cares about or has anything resembling an understanding of
>MFW
I wish I were joking.

>MFW someone was a Communist near me

>>2222905
>English to Physics