/lit/ - Literature

>>15271162

>>5985570

>>5931355
absolutely this. I'd be utterly petrified.

>>5931992
my sides

>>5603121

>>4876018
I really don't understand where she is going with that.

This is the closest board I can think of that might appreciate this question, and I thought of whilst reading so...

Why has the phrasal point, 'making things harder for yourself' been removed from our general lexicon?

It seems there's no definitive reason to think that people don't actually make things harder for themselves but we seem to find ourselves in a position where we never suggest such things. Are we just so used to blaming everybody else for our problems that we won't even conceive that certain problems are caused by the individual themselves.

Has PoMo gone too far? Are we in a state on unknowing, not willing to accept there are good ideas and bad ideas for any given scenario, pertaining to a set of circumstances.

>>3913605
I often hear that rules should be learned before broken that's why I'm taking my time

>>3871626
>toxic idea of "free speech"
This isn't tumblr you feelings obsessed retard.

>>3793385

> implying a person wit your atrocious grammar and writing is not borderline retarded

>>3781989

> today
> Pascal
> reasonable and logical
> Pascal's Wager

>>3773751

> lel u stupid pleb, 'm patrician
> le literary elite
> duh sumrfags r coming. get off muy c/lit/ you filthy casual

>Somebody responds to a gender discussion with anything other than a tabula rasa explanation for differences.
>LEL GET OUT OF HERE WITH YOUR POP PSEUDOSCIENCE, I'VE READ JUDITH BUTLER ESSAYS THAT CONTRADICT YOU AND THEREFORE AM QUALIFIED TO DISCUSS THIS SUBJECT WITH AUTHORITY.

It's time you become an opportunist OP.

>>3577160
Seriously? I've recently watched Taxi Driver every day for something like a couple months straight. Somehow, though, my friends have been saying I've been more social, outgoing and confident than before.

Though I have bought and dry fired a gun at myself in a mirror since then, so there is that.

>>3522662

too bad

I'm sexist, what do you think?

>Only problem is they'll trash the books in the process

>>3292138

>You're just a naive X years old young man. Wait until you get Z years old...like me!

Y'all need to lighten up a little, don't you know that nothing really matress?
We make these jokes but that doesnt mean that we dont respect the man. I bet your whole world view is lame.

>protagonist is a doctor/lawyer, or a student of either

If the first time you heard about Arkady and Boris Strugatsky was on /lit/, then you don't belong on /lit/.

Just sayin', you entry-level babby faggots have ruined the board. Go take that shit to the Maple Story forums and come back in a few years.

Thank you.

If you're going to get something like Zarathustra at least get her The Ego and Its Own. "In style Stirner's work offers the greatest possible contrast to the puerile, padded phraseology of Nietzsche's 'Zarathustra' and its false imagery." Then when she never reads it you can shrug your shoulders and say that at least you tried.

If you get something by Sagan I might recommend The Demon-Haunted World instead, but I haven't read Cosmos. DHW is more about kindling an interest in science, from my estimation of it. But why get a book? An Edward Cullen dildo is an investment into a lifelong love of reading.

the dirty ass looked upon the dirty ass and his entire life galloped before him. it began as a well rounded but troubled lobe, pockmarked with the failures and inconsistencies of being a jackass. oh, there was a brown part in the middle. and lately the dirty ass felt as if the dirty ass before him were a herald of his life to come, and so he resolved to commit suicide by plunging his equine member into his metaphorical AIDS ridden mid-life crises so that it might become literal. but the donkey dick was too big and two dirty asses died, one that day, the other a few years later from pneumonia complications. au revoir, dirty asses

I never gave a fuck about my grades, still ended up studying what I wanted.