/lit/ - Literature

I don't see a difference between destiny and free will

>>12927922
yeah because a chaos god ruined it lol

>>12824849
>He is pretty well known in meme-philosophy circles on twitter and a few other places.

>>11843442

>>11750460
>White Noise
I had to put this down after the protagonist described his son as a school shooter. Some of the worst most plain reading I've ever done

What is "truth"?

I'm sad frens

>>11630243
porn isn't sex tho

>>11312472
im nom pepe im apu

What does lit think about incels.

>>11061058
wat den

>>10065803
by writing seminars and essays for dumb uni roasties

Hey, /lit/. I'm learning English at the moment. Yesterday, the teacher gave us the task of summarizing a short story which he had given to us priorly. We are to pay special attention to the main character of the story, called M., and his experiences with the English language. The following is my introductory sentence to the summary. I'm not sure if I should use the present perfect or the simple past.

M.'s first contact with the English language has been reluctant
M.'s first contact with the English language was reluctant.

I'm inclined to use the present perfect, because the matter of the issue is important for the summary, not the time frame in which it happened, yet somehow it seems wrong to me. I can't use simple present because M. had multiple contacts with the English language other than this first one. One top of that, the first contact happened before the beginning of the short story.

P.S.: Thinking about it some more, both options seem incorrect in their own right.

>>9511030
This is me, to be for real. I don't really understand Pynchon on anything deeper than the surface level. I like him because the stuff that happens in his books are wacky and crazy, and on a page-to-page basis what he's writing is just entertaining to me. Plus, his writing is really really good, some passages just sound really cool when you read them out loud. I don't really know anything about the 'themes'. If you asked me what Gravity's Rainbow was really about I'd say it was a criticism of the evolution of war post WW2 and a commentary on the environment of the cold war.

I've still read a lot of his books, though, and he's one of my favorite writers.

>tfw read sparknotes and realize that you misunderstood the books themes even thoguh your interpretation sounded pretty cool in your head

>>9320710
>tfw I learned what the idiom 'know shit from shinola' meant because I read Gravity's Rainbow
>tfw I learned about Kekule's Ouroboros dream and how he used it to come up with the benzene ring
reading this book sure makes you learn a lot!

>>9310248
You're only saying that because suffering exists, though. Isn't this just a shitty excuse to rationalize your suffering? You're only able to say this because a life with suffering is the only life you know.

>>9215187

>cant tell if trolling or retarded

are there any books with really hype fights or action scenes? you know, like, books that really get your blood pumping? what are some books that really get you hyped?

What's it called when you're a tolerant social democrat but you want to genocide all Muslims?

>>8557565
I half expected that

>translator gives his opinion all the time and never explains it