/lit/ - Literature

>>22864680
Do you think I, an anon who posts on /lit/, is likely to be the best anyone has ever had?

>>21890063
>Arendt, Nussbaum

>>21305337

>>21006438
You’re a complete parrot. You "hate" modern physics because you associate it with an obscene caricature which lives rent-free in your minuscule head. Try learning something on your own instead of reading Sabine PopSci books and repeating mindlessly. AdS/CFT shows that string theory and QFT are so connected to one another that they are basically the same thing, and even in experimental particle physics, there have been string techniques applied for making predictions (QGP and others). The fact is that if you are studying QCD or the standard model (real physics) it has been demonstrated that string theory has a real connection. Just because two theories are dual to one another does not mean the simpler one is real and the more complicated one is vetoed by Popper shit. Mathematically there are real connections and that opens a whole 'nother toolkit for making experimental predictions. Just because you and some internet bloggers don’t appreciate that this connection is there doesn’t mean all the top experts are wrong and the whole study of this new toolbox should stop. On the contrary, buttblasted bloggers like you should be a prime example of how self-identified “smart internet commentators” can be completely ignorant of obvious things that show how ST is definitely opening new doors even on “ordinary” physics

>>21003683
>Gravity's Rainbow
ISHYGDDT.
I will continue to request a Rabelais read-along (as we were about to do a read-along for Gargantua & Pantagruel after Ulysses), or The Death of Ivan Ilyich.
Fuck Pynchon.

>Men, forgive Him, for He knows not what He has done

>>18460095
Yes, so much has been written about the ancient Roman/Greek tradition of "buck breaking"

>>18412482
>Collective Nouns
>Obscure

>>18181523
>spinal catastrophism
>cover depicts cranial catastrophe

>>17952882
>>17952940
I would rather slam my fingers in a car door during a blizzard than read whatever gay shit is actually in this fag's retarded, half-assed attempt at a book.

>>17833882
>from the US to Alaska

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

>>17799328

>>17538372
I haven't heard or seen anything at all like that. Link either a source or the website then because that sounds kinda like bs to me. either that or you're a complete schitzo

>>17158068
>measuring length in pages

>shilling one of Plato's dialogues

Anyone who hasn't read all of them doesn't belong on this board

>>16746951
>Actually reading Bukowski

>intentionally counting how many books you've read
ISHYGDDT

>>16360181
>caring about how you look on an anonymous weeaboo forum

>in 6 days
Maybe he shouldn't have taken the day off

>>15630565
>cold industrial efficiency
Yeah, with wooden doors.

>he needs to take notes because his memory is dogshit

>>14052762
>that millennium long gap between antiquity and medieval writers
why do people say the dark ages weren't real again?

>>13913794
>None of the current Romance languages have a case system nor declension nor a neutral gender like Latin has.

>is it good?
>is one of the most important books ever written, and possibly the blueprint for planning future civilisations, good?
you tell me