/lit/ - Literature

>>23027545
>it was the best of times
>it was the worst of times

>>22136105
He doesn't have a canister of Zyklon B.
Why even bother waking up in the morning?

>It was the best of times, it was the worst of times

He was right about women
>"Is there any natural activity in which men are not better in all these respects than women? We need not waste time over weaving and various cooking operations, at which women are thought to be experts, and get badly laughed at if a man does them better.' 'It's quite true', he replied, 'that in general the one sex is much better at everything than the other. A good many women, it is true, are better than a good many men at a good many things. But the general rule is as you stated it."
—The Republic, Book V
>"Woman may be said to be an inferior man."

—Poetics, XV
>"Woman is a temple built upon a sewer."

—De cultu feminarum (The Ornaments of Women)

>>20823332
Were going to read the entire Wheel of Time and we need to be done by the end of the month. No excuses.

What is the difference between fatalism and determinism?

>read the introduction
>it spoils key parts of the book and doesn't provide any context that might actually be helpful before reading

Does anyone else skip the introduction every time?

>those kids in high school who were still struggling to read Goosebumps
I'm not gonna lie, I made fun of those kids.

>>19213433

>worldbuilding

>this thread again

>reading iliad
>mfw Hephaestus getting cucked by Ares and being laughed at by his family subplot
Wtf? Why did Homer insert his dirty fetish out of the blue?

>>17461294
>He doesn't know how to parse a 4 word post.

>>17399773
>One last thing: this people tell you that religion (not just christianity but islam too) is bad while they are, morally speaking, scums (see P*inker who went to the E*stein island) and they just want morality that comes from religion to be eradicated or because they want you to see people from middle east like terrorist so that they can help the big nosed tribe to conquer their land and power in the middle east.
I've heard more coherent arguments from the mentally retarded.

>>17396629
Just post it cmon

>>17347017
And Trump was a danger to them?

>>17325040
>I know bookish type people from the new England area who knew him and say that he read romance novels and never even read Blood Meridian

>>17303720
Wow, good one anon!

>You did the Crime, you get the Punishment
Really Dostoevsky? That's the best you could do?

>>16937651
Except I'm not, you boomer dunces, my fields of expertise are history and theology.

>>16941704
Fuck I forgot the pic

>author makes the egregious claim that women enjoy sex on a physical level

>'convivial'

>>14051459
>>14051468
Well, I've gotten some phone numbers. And was chasing pussy. But I blew it, sperged out and blocked the girls.
So here I am again.

At least I have books, right? RIGHT????