/lit/ - Literature

Alors, /lit/, en quoi croyez-vous ? Dieu va-t-il me sauver la peau lors de cette stupide manche de Vie™ ? Ou est-ce bien le moment de ma mort ?

Placez vos mises.

Brazilian here. Got admitted to Ecole polytechnique without speaking French, so for my first-period internship, they just sent me to a FSL school. There I studied the language all day and was hosted by a French family, so I learned pretty quickly. Besides, French and Portuguese share a lot of their grammar and word roots, so it wasn't that hard.

At the Ecole I don't have much time to read, so I still haven't gotten to any actual French litterature, but I did read a book of American short stories translated to French. I plan to do a Balzac next, and some other things this summer.

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what about... ahem...... thin e

>tfw have read the entire western and eastern canon

>I stop reading a book and pick it up where I left off years later

Ahem.

Name 1 (one) good atheist writer.

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>appeal to authority
>has anything to do with quality of argument

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/pol/ here. Just letting you know, this is our board now.

>>10873047
>studying a STEM field
>he doesn't know

>>7332817
Are funny Camille Paglie names the dankest meme on the internet?

The Joke by Kundera

Out of all the thousands of reaction images, why did pepe get so big? What does he say about us? What is it about pepe that captures the shitposting zeitgeist so well?

Has the revolutionary become supplanted by the moving image? Can any truly momentous personality exist now under the demystifying scrutiny of the digital age? Do we need our icons now to be cinegraphical gods, singularities of presence and sound (basically, a big guy)?

Is it fair to say Menelaos is the greatest cuck of all time?

ITT unironic pomo fags post concepts, arguments, and passages that they found enlightening and actually relevant to normal people living down here in the ivory tower slums

prove to me pomo isn't just psuedo-intellectual posturing and snarky dismissals of all value judgments /lit/

>>6928877
couple of lines are trite,dig the mood, and good last line

>>6926834
digging this. reads like song lyrics. some of the lines are lacking the kick you're aiming for, though.

>>6926815
syntax is a bit strange, was about to write this off till 'tree will you teach me to grow ... such silence but now I know". strongest part imo. clip the last line, it's bad.

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nice, old-fashioned. tighten it up where you can. give it more punch

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it's trumped up fluff. an abstracted, autistic hall of mirrors. great, dude, the way we process the world and signify meaning isn't so iron-clad, got it, now what? and the whole pomo brigade goes mum.

they just want to tear down things, never build them up. there's questioning because you have a genuine, burning need to understand the world, and there's questioning because you think your pedantic, sex-obsessed drivel does anything to enrich the lives of others. OH BUT EUDAIMONIA IS A SOCIAL CONSTRUCT AND

no nigger. i'm out here in the real world. when you have to contort basic, everyday experience into an arabesque of autistic faggotry to make a point, or blow up such pedestrian observations as "society, history, and culture contribute to the popular understanding of x" into a whole school of thought i get buttmad. plato may have been off in his own metaphysical world but it was based on this one, it celebrated it.

and i get buttmad because we're on the cusp of great and terrible things at this point in history and I want to talk about crazy cool shit not fucking women-dicks you goofs

only when you've been out there in the wild can you know what rain, or heat, or sunlight, or nature really means. not behind a desk.

there's still good art out there which also happens to include some legitimately beautiful concept art and technically simple stuff but on the whole modern art is fuckin garbage

i got an art history book and it hits a wall of shit sometime around early 1900s. you go from Bouguereau to fucking egon schiele lmao

mu

if .jpgs, video and all that shit are just colored pixels arranged in a pattern, isn't it then theoretically possible to create a "photo" of me with a qt3.14 gf that looks totally real

OP they mean comedians turn societal conventions on their head by pushing the envelope of public discourse

in the sense that there are no more provocative philosophers anymore i see what you mean.

but tbh if socrates was around today nigga would be on youtube and getting laughed at for sperging at strangers in a minute flat homie

>2015
>not stealing your books

Stoicism is based.

stoicism in a nutshell: don't be a little bitch, get a handle on your shit, be a good person, see the beauty and order of creation, and oh if some bitch ass nigga gets gully brush yo shoulders off lil homie

acquire virtue, get money

You know, generally, that what "plebs" fail in reading they make up in social skills and having known the touch of a woman right?

I love literature as much as the next guy but I think some of you should worry more about becoming well-rounded, interesting people through the books you read than greasy ivory tower goblins. hth