/lit/ - Literature

>>18867606
Homosexuality is mostly a choice. I can't believe everyone has been tricked into thinking it's an inborn trait.

>wasn't planning on going to college because too depressed
>can't work up the courage to tell my mom
>she forces me to apply for a scholarship
>get accepted for said scholarship and get a tuition waiver for 4 years to my state school
>can't turn this one down despite not being interested in school and just wanting to be a neet
>spend 1 year just doing gen eds then pick polisci because it was easy and semi interesting to me
>finish that degree and then take on geography because also easy and semi interesting
>smoke a ton of pot and basically do nothing except for one internship and 2 clubs
>graduate and expect to be unemployed forever
>get hired at engineering firm half a year ago where I now travel the country doing survey bullshit work and getting paid ~$55k/year
I keep waiting for things to go badly, but they somehow keep working out. I think with any degree you're pretty well off

>tfw product of the 4chan education system

>fow-callt
>came-us
>del-you-ze
>de-reed-ah
>prowst
>flaw-burt
>sar-ter
>dumb-ass
>geed
>maw-paws-ont
>rim-bored
>hool-eh-beck
>coh-toe
>guh-net
>bat-ail
>dez-carties

>fow-callt
>came-us
>del-you-ze
>de-read-ah
>prowst
>flaw-bert
>sar-ter
>dum-ass
>geed
>maw-paws-ont
>rim-bored
>hool-eh-beck
>cock-toe
>guh-net
>bat-ail
>dez-carties

>>10584737
>to prevent any atomising infetterence

John Lukacs
Leo Strauss
Karol Wojtyla - Love and Responsibility
Michael Oakeshott
George Santayana
Pitirim Sorokin
Edmund Burke
Carl Schmitt

>>10548415
>>10548661
gay
>>10548722
its pretty useless to suggest canon works, especially pre-french revolution. especially when after listing basic reading you just drop some evola or other mystic shit. doesn't really help you understand conservatism as a contemporary element of culture.
conservative and liberal are such awful labels anyway... absolutely relative and impossible to quantify beyond a specific time and place

Houellebecq's social commentary touches on a lot of the same things that conservatives concern themselves with and that progressives cope with by avoidance... yet I would not call him a conservative. Moral conservatism, perhaps, but that seems distinct from the political strain of "Conservatism" with its neoliberalism and its irrationalism, its paranoid anticommunism. He rejects the label reactionary too; a reactionary thinks the clock can be turned back, he does not.

I remember reading someone say that Camille Paglia understands conservatism better than most conservatives. There are a million authors worth reading if you're interested in the social problems the conservative outlook concerns itself with... many very difficult to place on the political spectrum without nauseating yourself, or who fall into the evil left-wing... Political identity is crude. Political language is crude. But sometimes we just have to use it, I suppose.

>>10066935
That and freshman essay tier superficial complaints about not liking the narrator.

Probably the same people always in histrionics about Catcher in the Rye.

>>10051447
>the only talent that exists is a love for

Nonsense. Talent is real. The thing is, you can't do anything about the amount you have, but it's probably enough to write something of value.

For the supremely talented and the average writer alike, though, you're right--the work still simply has to get done.

>>10049054
OP, writer here. Do have some minor publications if that's more legit to you. Being consistent is difficult, but I think setting yourself a reasonable goal--spending an hour at the desk without distractions or aiming for 1,000 words each day--instead of sporadic drunken typing is going to get you further.

>>8103862

>last week
>find a new copy of A Confederacy of Dunces in the kitchen
>hmm.. this is odd, I think to myself
>I walk with it into the living room and my mother is on the sofa, sobbing
>"it's too real.. It's too real", she whimpers

It was for her book club but she could only make it through about 20% because it hit too close to home. Ho hum, she overreacts all the time.

>mfw

DEGENERATE NORMIE!

AKK YOU'RE SENDING MY VALVE INTO A SPASTIC FIT

MUMMMMMYYYYYYYYY

>Suffered the meat grinder of state education
>Failed to get into Oxbridge
>muh excuses, smrt but lazi :^)
>Go to ersatz Oxford
>Salt mine of public school kids
>Mostly morons that can't see how they are coasting on their parents money
>Over half don't even take a loan
>Prof says he'll help me apply for postgrad at Cam
>A couple of my friends that went to Oxford fell for the Oxford meme
>One of them is an SJW atheist that was a vocal supporter of Rhodes Must Poz
>ask her why people so anti-intellectual deserve to study in an ancient elite university
>remind her that she is just walking moneybanks to the professors, University is an extreme form of vanity publishing that only pays off if you are dedicated to your autistically precise field
>she replies with an essay from the postmodern generator
>mfw

I really hate the morons at university that can't see how pedestrian they are. I also hate the losers that drag down those who have succeeded. It's so hot in the UK because even Oxford and Cambridge barely even challenge the American Universities. I bet that 90% of Oxford fags would get destroyed by someone from MIT.

>>7814049
>oh! My god! Monster is Girl
lmao
this comic gold tbqh OP BTFO

based kate

What kind of books should I read to my wife's son before bed?

Any recommendations?

>>7361417
he is proto-lit.

>>6666408
>mfw i do this

>>6646502
>Murakami, McCarthy, Roth, Franzen

Bait.

>>6638046
modern Europe*

The vast majority of the world is still deeply religious

>Smoking anything

>>6596249
name a good example.

>>6582893
oh, rar3

have this as a reward: