/lit/ - Literature

>>18510615
Cause and effect is not a reward/punishment mechanism. Go back to church this was too subtle for you. NGMI

>/lit/ - Literature

the warning label on your favorite flavor of glue

>>16727143
>His works are required reading in English schools across the world
So that's why it seemed as if 1984 was being used as an instruction manual, it's because we raised kids with it...

t'was a good thread

The Republic is actually satirical. Plato addressed it to the Tyrant of Syracuse, but if he actually put his theory into practice the people would have risen up and killed him. It was payback for when Dionysius II forced Socrates to drink hemlock.

>>16261944
Will your artificial general intelligence give me a cute twink boyfriend? If not, I don't really care about its implications.

>>16243958
I hope I get a qt mommy

>>16170434
>Dionsyodorus: Tell me, have you got a dog?
>Ctesippus: Yes, and a brute of one too.
>Dionysodorus: And has he got puppies?
>Ctesippus: Yes indeed, and they are just like him.
>Dionysodorus: And so the dog is their father?
>Ctesippus: Yes, I saw him mounting the bitch myself.
>Dionysodorus: Well then: isn't the dog yours?
>Ctesippus: Certainly.
>Dionysodorus: Then since he is a father and he is yours, the dog turns out to be your father, and you are the brother of puppies, aren't you?
>Dionysodorus: Do you beat this dog of yours?
>Ctesippus: Heavens yes, since I can't beat you!
>Dionysodorus : Then do you beat your own father?
>Ctesippus : There would certainly be much more reason for me to beat yours, for taking it into his head to beget such clever sons. But I suppose, Euthydemus, that the father of you and the puppies has benefitted greatly from this wisdom of yours!

Congrats Ontologicool! I hope it wasn't to that jealous dweeb though.

Plato actually had two female students in his academy. One, called Axiothea of Phlius, dressed like a man to avoid scrutiny. I mention this because i think reverse-trap stuff is hot and i wish there was a story about an Athenian pederast courting on her thinking she was a boy, and her getting all flustered at experiencing true eros for the first time. Then there would be hi-jinks around attending the gymnasium together where Axiothea has to make up a bunch of excuses not to strip nude and slather each other in olive oil. And it all culminates in them drinking a bit too much wine at a banquet where they make out and the older man bends Axiothea over, prepared to pound some boy-butt only to find out she's a girl! haha, it would be such a fun story.

>>16131663
>they who killed themselves are now dead
>we who ordered pizza are now dying
>with a little patience.

>>16125811
Max Stirner

>be 20 years old
>the "young adult" section is still my favourite
>don't enjoy fine literature anywhere near as much as fantasy aimed at 14 year olds

am i autistic

Norwegian Wood.

We had this exact thread last week.