/lit/ - Literature

>After many years in which the world has afforded me many experiences, what I know most surely in the long run about morality and obligations, I owe to football
Here's based Camus on football. It all comes down to physiognomy. Borges was a blind old man with a weak and flabby body so he was physically unable or unwilling to perceive the beauty of sport. Camus on the other hand was fit and healthy and so he learned a great deal from his time as a goal keeper.

>>20781050
>you have to assume Prometheus was into that kinky vore shit

>>19962301
I do. Very well.

>>19075842
Again, just because modern governments took it literally is irrelevant to authorial intent.
Don’t you think it highly coincidental that Machiavelli praised republics in his writing before and after writing the Prince?
He wrote the latter under imprisonment and torture by the Borgias.
I’ve actually read the book, there’s a chapter where he discourages hiring mercenaries because they would not be loyal to the kingdom. This chapter is obviously criticizing the Borgias for hiring Swiss Guards (they were at their height of prominence and effectiveness between the 1490s-1510s, smack dab during the reign of the Borgias).
Machiavelli is obviously satirizing them and their regime, writing the book as an instruction manual for state-making is obviously a way to obfuscate intent.
Don’t tell me you also think Swift’s A Modest Proposal is 100% sincere?

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>>13927674
this is lit country. dubs are with the absurd

>>13873483
>instead

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>>13163666
>A single sentence will suffice for modern man. He fornicated and read the papers. After that vigorous definition, the subject will be, if I may say so, exhausted.

>>12936250

Is it worth pursuing French academically for the sake of accessing French literature in the original language?

Western Canadian here, never studied French past middle school, don't have many opportunities to use it in daily life. Unlike with most other language courses, my planned university offers a French minor heavy into literary studies, both modern metropolitan works and past colonial/French Canadian works. I'd probably plan on reading pic related, Sorel, some postmodernist works, and other works as seen fit. I'm not familiar with how many concepts can't be articulated through translation, as with German.

Architecture,Literature, Philosophy, Writing, perhaps Civil Engineering, where do I steer my ship lads