/lit/ - Literature

Post ITT the times a book made you laugh

> Some one took him into a magnificent house and warned him not to expectorate, whereupon having cleared his throat he discharged the phlegm into the man's face, being unable, he said, to find a meaner receptacle.
(about diogenes of sinope)

title: Diogenes and Alexander
Artist: Giovanni Battista Langetti in 1650

This painting depicts the scene when the famous philosopher Diogenes is basically sunbathing, ALexander the Great rides up as he just conquered Athens, Alexander is standing over Diogenes, and Diogenes proceeds to tell the ALexander to move since he is blocking the sun. Basically a homeless philosopher who sleeps in a tub with dogs told the most powerful man in the known world to go fuck himself, and Alexander simply let him be and left. Philosopher's used to be total badasses. I like this painting bcause it depicts that scene and Diogenes, with his body language seems to be saying "awwwwww shudup will ya"