/lit/ - Literature

>>20336017
well i went out, did more walking than ive done in ages, ended up only picking up one book, a nice copy of a tale of two cities, though there was a few others i might regret not getting. i stopped in the old bar i used to go to all the time with my friends and there was a band of youngsters playing a show, they actually played a few songs that I quite enjoyed, though the quality of their sound mixing and such was abhorrent lol. all in all though it was a rousing experience and I hope it will be enough to push me to go out and spend time with my friends more after so much isolation. I think ill see if my bro is down to have some drinks next weekend, im sure he will be delighted to finally see me out and about again. fuck though i miss the old bus routes lmao , what a fucking pain in the ass

>>17426830
>unverifiable truth claims?
The Buddha basically gives a Pascal's Wager type argument towards the Buddhist life, addressing the possible existence of gods, rebirth and nirvana. I don't remember in which sutta though because I read it in a compilation. TLDR; even if everything is bullshit at least you'll live life to it's fullest.

>>17204163

>“Like Italian cooking very much—especially spaghetti with meat-and-tomato sauce, utterly engulfed in a snowbank of grated Parmesan cheese.”

>“How can anybody dislike cheese? And yet Little Belknap hates it as badly as you do! I don’t suppose you would like spaghetti if you don’t like cheese, for the two rather go together.” (to J. Vernon Shea, 30 October 1931)

How can I know that spirituality isn't just a coping mechanism for realizing the inevitability of your nonexistence?
How can I know that materialism isn't just a coping mechanism for realizing that you will never understand your existence?

Why does its front cover look like a bad rendition of this meme?

"impossible for any one man to maintain a siege for a year with his army idle."

I need to write again

How do I describe a male as handsome, strong and well built without making it gay?

>>10346190
one hundred years of solitude

>>10346205
vineland

Japanese-English English-Japanese Dictionary - Seigo Nakao
The End of Tsarist Russia - Dominic Lieven
Beowulf - Heaney Bilingual Edition

>>10152969

The Old Man and the Sea