/lit/ - Literature

>In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

The only 1- or 2-star reviews are pretty much "It was boring." or "Well written, but not to my liking".

Then we have this guy who gave it five stars.
Over 3k words with a recap of the whole book and several poems.He shelved it under "frogs".

>>2895724
>wept with the flood gates of a thousand rivers
>wept with the flood gates

But yeah, cheap books are nice.

Why are they still giving out PhD's in the liberal arts?

All important source material has already been discovered.

Anything worth reading has already been analyzed down to the letter by thousands of scholars.

Isn't the whole point of a PhD that you are breaking new academic ground?

It seems to me that the only reason they still do them is so people that are too dumb for Science can still find a way to feel elite.

>>2763999

Ever heard of the Suez channel?

>>2645076

Example?

>>2519847

>>2427490

>>2315491

>mfw Quentin actually does kind of look like Ozymandias

>>2311400

Wow, just wow.

>Hint: You /don't/ know what the word means.

got a kindle

how do i pirate

I would like to start reading H.P. Lovecraft's work.
Where is the best place to start?

People who didn't realize Ned was going to die in the book from the first seventy–five pages in…

…I don't even know. Like, can you guys really read or are you just pretending?

>>2050102

D&E, in his usual manner, decided to couch a simple fact in purposefully muddle undergrad prose: Philosophy may be about ultimate questions, but it is arrogant to think that any one individual is going to find them, or to think that the enterprise is a failure for not having found them already. If you can get over that, you can make progress in learning philosophy.

tl;dr: The modern scientific analogy for philosophy isn't basic chemistry, it's cosmology.

(I think part of the problem here is the arrogance of the modern Anglophone academy in throwing the title of "philosopher" on "any old PhD who teaches philosophy". There needs to be some distinction between scholars of philosophy and those recognized as having significant, original contributions.)

>>2050096

>mfw

>>1277791
But.. It's an entire board dedicated to literature