/lit/ - Literature

>>20816950
>Tabloid readers are literal mongoloids but here we are, doing the same thing.
Yes, but we're doing it hidden behind five layers of irony thus retaining our superiority.

I just had a fascinating thought.

The modern USA/Western Europe has an overwhelmingly large amount of fiction books compared to other countries and other place in time. And because of this, it will be the most documented part of all time solely due to the amount of authors trying to get into the role of an average person and an average life in their books. But what about places in the past, do they have a lot of fiction books that would get you invested in a normal person who lives in say idk victorian england or a peasant in the Holy Roman Empire? You can learn so much about american culture and way of life from reading fiction books, so why can’t you use fiction books to learn about other cultures and way of life?

>>19184937
>invented tv
>started the industrial revolution
>invented and perfected whiskey
>best philosophers in british history
>literally built the british empire with their trading wiles
why are scots so underrated?

>>19111139
>Hmmm how will I make sure people know my antagonist is evil
>Oh I know, I'll just make him a gay morbidly obese pedo rapist lying murderer

>>18891006

>>18551065

>go to top 10 USNWR uni
>expect expansive offering of philosophy courses devoted to great thinkers like nietzsche, cioran and land
>almost every philosophy class is unironic critical theory or trolley problem tier ethics

was peterson right bros?

>Death of the author

Post only based or rare based words ITT

>>17418612
I live in france and I like to read and work in cafes, although not on the terrace outside, but rather inside with a bit of privacy. Next to a fireplace in winter is also very comfy and lit-pilled.

Is writing by your own grammatical rules, which you've come up with yourself, considered based or autistic?

/lit/ should be able to tell me who wrote this without looking it up.

"Mere experience is no more a substitute for thinking than reading is. Pure empiricism is related to thinking as eating is to digestion and assimilation. When empiricism boasts that it alone has, through its discoveries, advanced human knowledge, it is as if the mouth shoul boast that it alone keeps the body alive."

What's wrong with writing fanfiction? The Iliad, Paradise Lost and Shakespeare's plays were basically fanfiction

How to write action/fight scenes?

None of them are that important to me

>>16328870

>mfw apolitical

>>16320946

I make intelligent posts here on /lit/ all the time though. I'm adding to the literary criticism discourse.

>read a non-fiction book for the first time
>mfw head is filled with so much information now

btw the nonfiction book I read was Freakonomics

>138 IQ
>think science is a waste of time
>think activism is a waste of time

Books for this feel?

>and then

Polytropos

>>15264619
Asking something about something and using the word 'midwit' is already an indication that OP might be a midwit. Regardless of that, midwit-core books are books which are 'bad', for me, because I am not a midwit. They are good for you, because you are a midwit.