/lit/ - Literature

>>17374376
>>17374474

As a person who recently started reading Copleston's History of Philosophy I am on a verge of brain aneurysm from reading this heap of nonsense. Please, get off the internet and stop making a fool of yourself, anon.

>>17298437

>>16929984
>arguably the most famed Russian artist Ilya Repin, paints your portrait
>it depicts you as a blurry NPC
I'm gonna assume he wasnt that great.

>>15773848
>implying that remotely justifies the experience a bunch of anons with nothing to lose put her through
>implying the absence of any causal relation between the two events

>>15703980

>>15458040
>>15458119
>I genuinely don't even care about race, but black people only seem to talk about racism and woe is me bullshit for the most part.
Literal retards. Black Americans post-emancipation and especially pre-civil rights movement had essentially no traditional culture, and were actively prevented from identifying with the cultures and artistic traditions of the whites living around them. Black artists could not make white art, and there was essentially nothing else for them to draw on besides the minuscule, stunted artistic tradition which existed under slavery (slave work songs are literally the only example of this I know of), and condition of their current existence, as defeated, without history, without culture, desperately impoverished, actively oppressed, etc. I don't know how black art, and black literature especially, could have come into existence without racism and black alienation being central, foundational themes. I think these themes are probably not as strictly necessary today, because anti-black racism is not nearly a pervasive or prone to be internalized as it was 100 years ago, but most classic black literature was written back when this was still the case. I literally cannot imagine having such a weak theory of mind or historical imagination that reading the works that helped to define a nascent ethnic and quasi-national identity would seem uninteresting.

>>15267341

>>15171618
disgusting

>Try to read any journals of philosophy in 50 years

>They are all on the subscription only sites that cost like 50 dollars to see it

>There are hundreds of philosophy journals meaning you have to give out thousands of dollars


Fuck this bullshit system.

>>15045976
>*bject Oriented Programming

>>14917338
Do you not?

>>14626032
>only gives the most superficial wikipedia article explanation of things
>sprinkles in random quotes from secondary sources
>fills video with film school production so you won't notice how little information you're getting

> new character enters the plot
> author goes into great detail describing his/her appearance, including height, eyes, hair, skin tone, body shape, and more, before going back to whats happening

is this the worst literary technique there is? it's always anglos who do it as well, and the information never turns out to be important. just let me get my own image of the character, and mention the details that are important to the plot.

>>14451719

>>14299816
>thinking file name stands for pic related

>read essay
>this is thoroughly linked with [concept] that [writer] coined in his [essay] and [concept] of [writer] in his marxist analysis of [book]
>no explanation of who these people are or what they think

>>13814593
>Muhammad performed no miracles
>but Jesus did because the church says so
>Jesus was foretold in vague prophecies that he only fulfils because much of his life is likely fictionalised and is therefore proven
>prophecies about Jesus’s lineage don’t make sense if immaculate conception is true

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