/lit/ - Literature

>>22815546
>and was FLOORED when he had to represent how characters feel by MAGICAL EMOTION FAIRIES

>korean culture
>korean philosophy
>korean art

>>19080773
>Tucker thinks Chan is his actual surname

>>18423342
absolutely excellent post

congrats /sffg/

>>18101159

>>17868445
>Tank Division
at least they have a sense of humor

>>17834775
That Descartes founded analytic geometry and thereby revolutionized mathematics through marrying geometry and algebra, which would become the foundation of much future mathematics and science. I mean, does he not know why it's called a "Cartesian plane?" That doesn't constitute "relevance for all time?" He should heed Plato's own words:
>Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here

>>17698548
Neither will Auntie Ted

>The sails were rent, the masts were smashed, the ship broke up. Work as they might, no one could make himself understood, and there was no one in charge. The Anabaptist was helping out with the rigging down on the decks. Furious, a sailor came up, gave him a good clout, and laid him flat on the boards. But the force of the blow jerked him so violently that he himself fell headfirst overboard and ended up suspended in mid-air, hanging from apiece of broken mast. Kind Jacques ran to his rescue, helped him back on board, and in the process was precipitated into the sea in full view of the sailor –– who left him to perish without so much as a backward glance. Along came Candide, saw his benefactor momentarily reappear on the surface and then sink without trace, and wanted to jump in after him. Pangloss the philosopher prevented him, arguing that Lisbon harbour had been created expressly so that the Anabaptist would be drowned in it. While he was proving this apriori, the ship foundered and everyone perished, except for Pangloss, Candide, and the brute of a sailor who had drowned the virtuous Anabaptist.
>...
>The sailor forthwith dashed into the midst of the rubble, braving death in search of money; he duly found some, grabbed it, got drunk and, having slept it off, bought the favours of the first willing girl he met among the remains of the ruined houses, among the dying and he dead. Pangloss, however, took him aside: ‘My friend,’ he said, ‘this is not right. You are in breach of universal reason, and this is hardly the moment.

>>17647366

>>17634612
>counter-currents.com

>>17471078

That coma was good for him

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWXxlYzBCno

>>12883442
"""""traditional"""""

>American
>Literature