/lit/ - Literature

Is Book of the Long Sun as good as New Sun? I heard someone say it was an unrelated story only technically set in the same universe as a cash grab, and I have mixed feelings about the other Wolfe stories I've read (5HC, Dr Island)

>>15297875
That may be true for many who do degrees in STEM, but there still is plenty of research in Mathematics and the Sciences that can rightly be called academic. Besides, if something that is studied merely for a job is enough to make you hate something, then there must hate almost every occupation.

OP, you should read Homo Sacer if you haven't already.

>hundreds of pages to explain why brown people hurt his feefees

>>14672444
our consciousness, thanks to the transcendental unity of apperception. this unity represents the I, which i recognize as as myself as 'I think', containing a universal and necessary connection between all my thoughts and intuitions. i think

/lit/ is a fourierist board: anthropogenic global warming is real, but it's also a good thing
>It goes without saying that these improvements will not affect high mountains and areas close to the sea to the same extent, particularly the three continental extremities near the south pole, which will not have a crown and will always be shrouded in ice and fog. This however will not prevent areas close to that pole sharing in different ways in the crown’s influence, which among other benefits will change the taste of the sea and disperse or precipitate bituminous particles by spreading a boreal citric acid. In combination with salt, this liquid will give the sea a flavour of pink lemonade. It will thus be easy to remove the saline and citric particles from the water and render it drinkable, which will make it unnecessary for ships to be provisioned with barrels of water. This breaking down of sea water by the boreal liquid is a necessary preliminary to the development of new sea creatures, which will provide a host of amphibious servants to pull ships and help in fisheries, replacing the ghastly legions of sea-monsters which will be annihilated by the admixture of boreal fluid and the consequent changes in the the sea’s structure. The sudden death of all of them will rid the Ocean of these vile creatures, images of the intensity of our passions which are represented by the bloodthirsty battles of so many monsters. Death will strike them all at the same moment, just as we shall see the hateful customs of civilized man, barbarians and savages disappear in an instant, to give way to the virtues which will be honoured triumphantly in the combined order because they will become the way to wealth and pleasure.

>>14487791
>socrates was the original chantard
how many layers of irony are we on?

just about to start william godwin's 'enquiry concerning political justice'. based on what malthus said of it in his essay on the principle of population, it's going to be a blast.

>>11897051
Yeah, whatever you say virgin. I put him in the OP because he was a respectable man of character who was immensely popular with the public. Now piss off if you're not willing to stay on topic.