/lit/ - Literature

>>18718829
True in reality, but not in literature: if a character's appearance is known from the descriptions of others, then her appearance has no other existence
A philosophical spirit may disdain the opinion of the crowd because 1) they know the multitude is stupid, which does not apply to books because their characters are crafted to evoke a certain emotional appeal or 2) they want to think for themselves, but this also fails since even a direct description of a woman's appearance is given by an external source, viz. the writer
The reason erotic descriptions of women don't work is simply that thorough descriptions of static objects - like bodies - do not belong in literature, but in painting

Google translated the Iliad from it's original as a modern Greek text, and it's absolutely heretical. Seriously, everyone should read this to the end, it is creeping me out.

Excerpt:
the most rewarding guest in the world: 130

the very poor of the God of the Lord

he stole the law, and he went away with persuasion.

You have come from that age, because

Are you the next, are they with me?

but I have a good old age of 135

the following shall be attained, as they are:

I will give you a gift and I will be empty

ἢ teνη ἢ Aian the son of old, ἢ Ὀυσῆῆ</s>

to all men: the void falls away from me.

but all these are translated and translated, 140

if we did not want to be worshiped,

in the second half of the second half of the year,

we are gathered, and these are the golden cedar

we blaspheme: and thou art the first angel,

The Aias I Idomenefs or Dios Odyssefs 145

ἠ ὺ </s> </s> </s> </s> </s> </s> </s> </s> </s> </s> </s>
link: https://translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sacred-texts.com%2Fcla%2Fhomer%2Fgreek%2Fili01.htm&edit-text=&act=url

I think a found a new work of literature!