/lit/ - Literature

>>15499170
>Because God is a cowardly asshole. He fucked up in the Garden of Eden, and transmitted the blame of his fuckup onto innocent humans, like the asshole he is

>>15499215
>What are you talking about? It's perfectly normal to put your toddler children in a playpen and then deposit a bunch of poison fruit in the middle of it and then when one of your house servants tells them to eat it you condemn both your children to great torment and death. It's just basic parenting

>Read Freud and Jung idiot.

>>15460162
>Toni Morrison is at least on the level of those writers you mentioned - certainly Orwell, Huxley, and Fitzgerald. Bloom even includes her in his Western canon, and we all know *his* views on minority writers.
>So I'm not really sure, then, OP, what your complaint is. You took a class on Western Lit and you are reading a Western author. Her merit is acknowledged by even the most violent critics of minority activism within literature. The only possible explanation I can think of is that you don't want to read her because she's black and a woman, ironically participating in that racial and sexual discrimination you say she shouldn't talk about in her books.

>>15452600
>as a Frenchman

>Pistis Sophia
>Gospel of Judas
>Gospel of Thomas