/lit/ - Literature

>>22538813
>what did he mean by this

>>22474074
>this one bitch in the 19th century did some shit related to weaving
>computers wouldn’t have been invented without her

>>22473166
>inevitable liberalization
Complete ideological bullshit. This happened in a single instance in our current modern civilization which now intentionally pushes itself (and is resisted) all across the globe. There’s really no examples of the same thing occurring in any previous societies.

>>22456799
Is pic a joke? Moby Dick was specifically a sperm whale not a humpback. It’s not like that was some minor plot point either, there were literally multiple chapters about the difference between the two and the superiority of the sperm whale.

Is it true that crippling a character makes them 'less relatable?'

>>20028269

>Chapter doesn't have a cool cryptic little summary of the events to come, e.g. "CHAPTER XXIII: In which three Strangers Meet, and our Hero makes a startling Discovery."

>>19905425

— Jonathan Swift
— Didn't nest in the roof, eat insects or fly south for the winter.

— Bram Stoker
— Never worked on a steam train

— Alexander Pope
— Wasn't even a Catholic

— Jack London
— Lived in America

— Laurence Sterne
— Was quite easy-going

— Oscar Wilde
— Was, if anything, effete.

— Laura Ingalls Wilder
— Was a girl.

>heh [non-materialist thing] is just something the capitalists use to distract you!
>goes back to watching tv/posting on social media

>>19509775
>he reads the introduction carefully, so as to appreciate the work better

>abloobloo i cant read long bcuz me nogger starts hurty
Just fucking do it you little shit, your brain isn't a muscle, the worst that can happen is you falling asleep

>>19091770
Wait what do you think the pagans worship when they bow before their figures, the gods represented by them or the actual stone figures?

>it's the academic consensus