/lit/ - Literature

>>10766399

>>10629954
Have you even read my post?

>>10197018
A possible relation of some people in a small part of China, a north province that has often been home to nomadic peoples at times, to people who were widespread in the steppe does not mean anything.

>>10175906
>reading comprehension being this bad

>>10129669
It's almost like I never said they were. It's also almost you didn't address anything I did say.

>>9896712

>>9884023

>>9850852
>The best way to learn is to read books in the language.
>responding to someone saying you should read books in the language
>calling them retarded

>>9661852
>Wrong. God may be ineffable, but his creation is a part of the perceivable world, and therefore knowable through sensation and a priori reason.
So if Moby Dick is knowable why doesn't anyone ever, you know, know anything about it? Even the name Moby Dick was chosen because it is a meaningless attribution that doesn't tell you anything about it. Why do you think that the cetology chapter contains glaring scientific untruths that were obvious to Melville? Maybe it's because he thought that science wasn't actually able to get to grips with reality... almost like another novel I can think of.

>Also wrong. Neither the whale nor the planet are unknowable.
This is bait right? Did you even read Solaris? At what point is it ever suggested in the novel that we can comprehend Solaris. Every single attempt they ever make to understand it fails. That is literally the point of the book.

>Lem works on a substantial theme that Melville could never have known since he was a man of a prior century
And that substantial theme is what exactly? Science is unable to comprehend reality? Philosophy is inadequate to understand reality? That humanity pales in the shadow of the powers of the universe? Because both novels share the exact same thoughts.

> You're making loose associations between two works that merely happen to be conceptual fiction.
Yes two works that merely happen to be share the same theme, and an analogous setting, and a similar object that is the inquiry of the characters. Who could possible think of any similarities.

>You might as well make a comparison between just about any two other works of fiction.
Do you really believe you can compare Don Quixote and the Iliad, or Paradise lost and The Catcher in the Rye in the same way? Go ahread, tell me about how Satan is a lot like Phoebe, except you can't because those are two novels that actually have nothing in common unlike these two.
It's not like Lem is on record as saying that the space station the book takes place on is shaped life a whale in reference to Moby Dick. That couldn't mean anything at all.

>>9610035

>>9370038