/lit/ - Literature

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxWN8AhNER0

>>17961314
Diogenes would be a fat fuck because people would give him McDonalds all the time

>>17927657
Nauseatingly accurate

>>13568017
Silly cunt

Waking up to a loud crash rarely means something good is happening. It’s never “CRASH! Mom made pancakes!” or “CRASH! We decided to adopt a Golden Retriever!”
So when I woke up to the sound of my car crashing through the wall of my second-story bedroom wall, you could say that I was pretty irritated. Granted, it was a crappy, hand-me-down Toyota Camry, but I still would’ve preferred an alarm clock.
I wasn’t sure what had thrown the car through my window—in the Philadelphia suburbs, tornadoes and severe hurricanes were out of the question, even with global warming—but it was clearly bad news. I leapt out of bed and rushed down the hall.
“Mom! Dad! Jessica!” I yelled. “Something weird is going on!”
I poked my head in through my sister’s bedroom door. It was dark except for the dim light creeping in around the edges of the window blinds. Her bed, positioned across from a Taylor Swift poster on the opposite wall, was empty. She hadn’t been gone long, though; her head had left an indent on the pillow that was still visible.
I ran upstairs to my parents’ room. It was the same story—they had clearly slept in the bed, but they were gone now. Had my family run from whatever was wreaking havoc outside and left me behind?
My self-pity party was interrupted by a low growling behind me. No, it wasn’t that new Golden Retriever I talked about. When I turned around, I saw what looked like the result of crossbreeding an angry wolf with an even angrier lion. It was pitch black except for its blood-red eyes, boring into me so vehemently you’d think I had just said something rude about its mother.
Before the rational part of could process what the hell this thing was, it started walking slowly towards me. This was somehow scarier than if it had immediately decided to pounce on me; the demon dog was so confident it could tear me apart that it didn’t bother to rush.
I raised my fists and locked eyes with it, trying to look more like a boxer circling his opponent in the ring than an average-sized teenage boy who had never needed to throw a punch.
But all of my false courage fell away when the demon dog pounced at me. My heart stopped, and, next thing I knew, it was pinning me down on the floor, snapping its maw inches away from my face. Ordinarily, its bad breath would have been enough to make me pass out, but thankfully my adrenaline was overpowering my disgust.
I writhed around, trying to throw my canine attacker off me. My skull accidentally bashed against the dog’s. It reeled back, enabling me to scramble out from under it and get back on my feet.
For a split second, I felt accomplished; maybe I wasn’t going to die after all! But the dog recovered, and it stared back at me even more furiously than before. My brief hopes of living evaporated.
It shifted its weight onto its back legs, ready to pounce again. Then, it jumped at me, and I did the one thing you should never do in a fight—I closed my eyes.

>>8200977
heh
check'd

>>5875972
Has anyone been to a Zizek lecture?
I was at one way back in the year and what I remember was
>David Lynch
>people's Facebook profiles say more about what people really are than how they appear in the every day life
>imagination is the key to all relationships especially if they're sexual in that there had to exist in each person a kind of fantasy that keeps it exciting and can also act as a personal mirror
>Facebook, heightened surveillance as well as increasing individual focus in the media in general are ruining this fantasy
>y'all should just fall in love and it sucks that some languages don't allow for the mental picture of falling in love
>multiculturalism is understanding how people are different and then getting along anyway, rather coming up with excuses and apologising for the behaviours of Muslims (for example)
>self-deprecating racist jokes are great for strengthening intercultural bonds
>some stuff about how his home is made primarily out of a whole lot of his owns books he's editing or signing and then an xbox

I like to pick up some of his arguments and act a contrarian sometimes but he does have some interesting points