/lit/ - Literature

>>19514546
I dont see how a character being retarded means their text would be red

>words

Just how hard is it to get a literary novel published? I mean, it can’t be that hard, right? The number of people who manage to finish novels, let alone start writing them is vanishingly small. How much competition can there possibly be?

I want to have sex with and masturbate to Big Brother
Is that a sexcrime

Masturbation and sex for non-reproduction purposes are prohibited in 1984,
but what about sex with Big Brother?

>>17063405
>Egyptian, Mesopotamian
Both are Mediterranean. Mediterranean doesn't mean white.

My bookshelf has mostly anarchist literature on it, this is weird because I'm not an anarchist. I believe the state is wholly justified.

The more books I read the more I realize I don't know shit. I don't know which metaphysical belief I adhere to, I don't know which political belief I adhere to, I don't know which Ethical belief I adhere to. I just don't know, what the fuck? Most things seem to have good arguments and counterarguments but also flaws.

>>16685093
I want to know the answer so my curiosity can be satisfied.

Do you think there is a correlation between race and intelligence?

Why do Oxford World Classics and Penguin Classics not have translations of the Parmenides dialogue? Is it really that hard to translate accurately?

I used to make my dad read my math problems to me because I hated reading

>all fiction literature is ultimately about finding happiness

Is this true?