/lit/ - Literature

>friend of mine holds the strange belief that everything that can be thought of has already been thought of.
>ask him about when this transition between discovery and non-disovery occurred
>he says somewhere around the 1900s
>ask him about the thinking up of the less refined versions of things, for example a "lesser TV" or a "more complicated refrigerator"
>says that the thinkers of these ideas just didn't act out and never invent these objects
>ask him about the negation of ideas, or ideas that simply can't be built upon by knowledge we currently have (ie. a hyperdrive because the scholarship just isn't there)
>says that these thinkers are just not in the position to enact their idea in the physical world.
>ask him that is an idea is unenactable, unrealizable, and ununable than how can you prove that it was ever thought of.
>says that there are 7 billion people in the world, someone probably already thought of this conversation.
>ask him that if all of this is true than the only thing that could prove his hypothesis is God
>says that God doesn't exist
>convince him that his idea can't be proved without God
>he is so stubborn in his beliefs that he will not let his conclusion be challenged
>tfw I convinced my friend to join the Hold Roman Catholic Church within a tea time.

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>>7911544
I read it as well, and only finished it so I could be assured of its utterly terrible quality. It is pure spectacle, all the while pulling off a clichéd rip off of jekyll and hyde's themes.

2/10
Barely worth reading ironically, and should only be read with the intention of understanding the state of modern American fiction.

>>7887467
>tfw dorian gray is literally a satire on the time period it was written.
>tfw all the 14 year old shit posters are having a circle jerk over how shitty books from the 19th century are, even though they haven't read even one of them.
>tfw lurkers are face-palming but still too lazy to point out how shitty this thread is and its discussion.