/lit/ - Literature

Should I visit the museum or the amusement park for my birthday?
On one hand, I have left childhood and should put away childish things. It's not like I wouldn't enjoy the museum- I love it.
On the other hand, C.S. Lewis once said that to rebuke things you enjoy as "childish" is in itself childish. I love the amusement park, too.
How do I solve this problem literally?

>>16881362
What's the difference between a cliche and an archetype?
I feel confident that there is a difference, but I don't know how to explain it.

>>14668134
Reread it until you learn english.

>>14668308
>It's a trivial truth that we've biologically evolved the capacity to live however we're living now, because otherwise we wouldn't be alive
Imagine being this much of a little reductionist bitch baby. Just because we're alive doesn't mean we're thriving. Just because we're capable of artificially surviving under modern conditions doesn't mean that our bodies are evolved to live this way, you astronomical fucking dipshit.

>But you don't have true humanity
Define "true humanity", you cryptomoralizing nigger.
>It's being attuned to your own alienation and to the inhumanity of the world you live in.
Just imagine being this much of a slave to marxist jargon. Being "attuned to your own alienation" means literally nothing more that you feel bad for some reason and subjectively interpret that reason to be muh capitalism, instead of the objective and demonstrable inconsistencies between the modern world and our biology.

>>11799271
>>11799248
ever wonder why Israel has a concrete border wall and the most powerful military in the region, but still Jews are the biggest proponents of communism and anarchism in Europe?

>tfw can't decide if thinks are too democratic or not enough

>gets the loeb editions to classical works
>doesn't actually bother learning ancient greek/latin

What books do I need to read in order to reach enlightenment?

>>9769114
>Geothe
>not pronounce jee-ohth

>>9701413
babby's introduction to books
or: man, i really need to ace this essay.

How did the Nazis manage to misread Nietzsche so badly? He's pretty much explicitly against everything they stood for.

>when someone posts a video with only a handful of views

>>9627450
rely meks u thunk ! ?

>>9605344
None of the above. I have yet to see definitive proof that the JQ is anything more than an anti-Semitic hunch.

Is historical fiction genre fiction? If so, is every novel that is set in the past historical fiction?

>you're walking along the muggy, hot St. Petersburg streets late at night when Sonia Semyonovna Marmeladova comes up to you and says she'll suck your dick for a ruble
Would you do it?

>>9569049
>Bloom went undercover to Reddit in a last ditch attempt to spread classic literature to genrefags

>>9565361
>when the shitpost meme satire is right
So this is the power of pol

What is the most /lit/ genre of fiction and why is it historical fiction?

Give me some good books to read over the summer.

>>9519494

i think i will try to tone down the future stuff next time. i reread todays story with your thoughts in mind and stuff like mentions of 'plassteel' and caffeine being banned i think are making it less authentic with very little benefits. so, ill cut back on that - thanks for the feedback.

i like the toxic air thing though, i think not being able to go outside makes it peversely comfy to be inside, if that makes sense. like when youre inside during a thunderstorm.