/lit/ - Literature

>>20795781
>"Shankara has never been refuted"

>>18886609
I write at my job stealing company time.

>Why, yes, his best play was The Merchant of Venice, how did you know?

>Why, yes, I listen to the ocean crashing upon a shore while reciting the Iliás (Ἰλιάς) from memory. How did you know?

Gigachad

>Why, yes, the part when Homer describes a soldier being impaled in the head by a flying javelin, which caused his eyes to pop out and drop into the hot sand, causing them to sizzle, is my favorite. How did you know?

>Why, yes, I speak in Latin with a German accent. How could you tell?

>>14894824
>You thought this thread would be funny in your head, but I’m here to inform you it wasn’t. You’re not funny. Now go back to shit posting on some other board

>My soul is aristocratic. Plebeians remaining plebeians is fine with me.

>Of course, after each rep, I write down an aphorism in my notebook of wisdom.

>Why, yes, melancholia is the most aesthetic way of living.

>>14871963
>Why, yes, I do read them in translation

>>14839715
Of course I've had sex. That's the reason I can emphasize so easily with the sexual undertones of the novel and how sexual guilt is interlaced throughout all of human history and creation. I'm not surprised you would make the connection though, you being a virgin and all hahahahahahahaha!

Greetings brother.

I read so that I can communicate with the brightest minds in human history without any barriers to penetrate. Reading for me is like a flower being pollinated like a bee: together we produce a field of blue flowers.

>>14749321
very based...

>>14734653
You forgot your capital letter and full stop.

“Life, he himself once said.. is a wake, livit or krikit, and on the bunk of our bread-winning lies the cropse of our seedfather, a phrase which the establisher of the world by law might pretinately write across the chestfront of all manorwombanborn.”

This is the greatest piece of prose in english history welcoming any other opinions.

Finnegans Wake is Based

>>14621729
>>14621754
Based.

>>14614740
>to become demonically possessed
>compulsive adventures with ideas
All I shall say is "pseud. cringe.".

>>14609975
>>14609981

OP here. The last sentence is ' Finn, again! Take. Bussoftlhee, mememormee! Till thous-endsthee. Lps. The keys to. Given! A way a lone a last a loved a long the ' and the first sentence is 'riverrun, past Eve and Adam's, from swerve of shore to bend of bay, brings us by a commodious vicus of recirculation back to Howth Castle and Environs.'

That should clear things up for you. I highly recommend not picking up the paperback and reading the entire book on genius annotations to get additional context.

>>14390396
Slutshaming is literally human nature. We’ve been conditioned to it through millions of years of evolution, and the reason for it is simple: it’s to be sure that the offsprings you will put resources into are truly years. If infidelity was rampant, you wouldn’t be sure anymore. Being disgusted of whorish behaviour is an instinctive reflex.

>>14213385
Thanks for the dopamine hit, bro.