/lit/ - Literature

>>18745182
>you know how the old story goes
missed a good nick land joke here

>The year is 2069. Earth is captured by a cetacean singularity as American Renaissance rationalitization and oceanic navigation lock into Pequod expedition take-off.
>...
>As markets learn to manufacture Whale Oil, politics modernizes, interpellates Ishmael, and tries to get a grip.

idk if this is the right board but you guys are said to be pretty smart by the other boards so ill run my idea by you to hopefully get some input

regarding the position of 4chan in pop culture

i think that while 4chan has its own unique content (think suprdo sparde) one of the most unique properties of the community on the website is its ability to provide commentary on topics in a light that isn't mentioned in mainstream media.

a good example of this is the perspective that biz has on working and the philosophy that drives their pursuit of money

they don't want Ferraris or Rolex's(they joe about it but it isn't a real belief), they want freedom. this narrative is rarely mentioned in modern culutre. the idea that ones ultimate goal in life is to achieve enlightenment through the freedom granted by financial liberation is quite forward thinking when compared to the current status quo of "working 80 hrs for dat grind"

i honestly believe that some of the core values on boards such as biz and even r9k are what make 4chan valuable. this websites ability to discuss ideas without social restriction enables a level of enlightenment that is barley found outside in the normie world

what do you guys think? forgive my shit grammar

dont be afraid to tell me your thoughts if they are different, your abiltiy to do so is the best part of this site

I'd like to become well read so I can shitpost proficiently on /lit/. Found this Guardian article on how to do it. What do you think of Robert McCrum's standard of being well read? Is there anyone he's left out or included that he shouldn't have, and should I just read everything all those people ever wrote?

"I’d suggest that three kinds of reading define the well-read mind. First, I’d want to include the immortals from the classics of Greece and Rome: Homer, Plato, Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, Virgil, Plutarch, Ovid, Juvenal and Sappho…

Next, from the Anglo-American literary tradition, we can’t forget Shakespeare, Milton, Donne, Byron, Austen, Keats, Dickens, Twain, Thoreau, Dickinson, Hawthorne, Melville, Whitman, Eliot, Pound, Auden, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Spark, Beckett, Woolf… and certainly another score of contemporary greats, including Baldwin, Pinter, Morrison, Miller, Bellow and Naipaul.

Finally, and this is where it gets contentious, there’s great writing in translation, from Proust, Freud, Fanon and Bulgakov to Grass, Márquez, Kundera and Levi.

I’ve only scratched the surface, but these would be indispensable to my definition of well read."

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/12/book-clinic-what-constitutes-well-read

>>11113085
Thanks everyone for the recommendations and also for the the post trying to cheer me up

I am sad because my mom literally betrayed and lied to me and I won't be able to pay for the medicines I need in order to get the consults necessary with the proper doctors to get those medicines free
My life is not bad, is just that my family sucks really bad and I don't want to deal with my sickness and addictions anymore.

Cozy

>>6233503
Morality is defined by the individual. Your opinion of something is all that matters (for you).

Autumn is coming lads, and I'd like some autumn reading. I feel in the mood for Victorian Britain stuff with that pic related atmosphere.

Sherlock Holmes stuff is an obvious one, and so is Dickens. But I've never read Dickens. Where should I start with him and what else should I read for that kind of vibe?

Non-British stuff is also welcome of course as long as it has that type of atmosphere.

>>5253057
Moron

>>5253062
This might actually be a valid point. But the same argument could be used to justify murdering anyone. That said, the chances are overwhelmingly likely that the animal products you consume are produced with unimaginable horror. Watch videos about factory farming. The suffering is nightmarish.