/lit/ - Literature

Philosophy is gay give me some books on finance so i can become rich. Money is all that matters

>crime statististics made by cops who get caught lying on police reports are true no questions asked
>covid numbers, climate data, the election are all faked

why do you guys have superiority complexes over things that are purely subjective? most of your 'theories' are completely unfalsiable.

I always saw fan works in a different light. Rather than a fast food analogy, I see them more as a single person's impressions of a work rather than working within the mind of a different writer.
The biggest thing I notice is that a lot of times i feel like writers' contempt for the medium is misplaced. I personally believe that once someone puts there work in the public, they are no longer in control of how to shape the impression the work gives off.
Textbook example: Rowling.

OP, what do you think of fan work about classic literature. Because I can name quite a few fandoms based around classics.

Is it cringe and pretentious if I randomly put the Latin word "enim" in an essay or acceptable?

Can you publish (online service) a book that lists a politicians or celebrities or journalists name, address, family members, and say you will murder them, and encourage others to do so
BUT
preface the book by saying it's a work of fiction and all persons mentioned aren't meant to represent real people, living or dead?

How far would a preface let you go?

>"It was in this essay [Tradition and the Individual Talent] that Eliot...described the reciprocal relationship between the canonical and the new. The new defines itself in response to what is already established; at the same time, the established has to reconfigure itself in response to the new. Eliot's claim was that the exhaustion of the future does not even leave us with the past. Tradition counts for nothing when it is no longer contested and modified."
Can someone help a brainlet make sense of this. I think I understand the jist of it, but what does it mean when the past has to "reconfigure itself"? In what ways does the past "reconfigure itself" in response to the new?

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>It's my opinion so _I_ think it's true
I'm asking if this is true in the "world as is". You're right though, in your world, your statement is true.

>I haven't looked. Seems difficult to study.
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>People are born and they get taught values, both explicitly by their parents and implicitly by society. But these values aren't grounded in anything, they're basically just memes. It's not surprising that the realization that everything you've ever believed in is completely arbitrary would lead to depression.

So you're saying that the realization that the values that you have aren't grounded in anything leads to depression? Correct me if I'm wrong, I'm sincerely trying to understand you