/lit/ - Literature

>>16752279
>I feel you need to be married to truly flourish though.
W-why?

>>16127440
>minor in philosophy
>surprised anyone recognizes the french existentialists
>Camus is literally baby’s first

>>16097032
>at most 75 in number
>buying books at full price, not used

>>14656357
>guenonfag the wikipedia theosophist doesn't know anything about india

No.. No, how can this be! I can't believe it!

>>12449357

Can someone please explain to me the trend of adults reading YA? I can understand it if you're an editor or reviewer, but if you're going to read shitty books, why not read shitty books written for adults instead?

Asking because I recently had a grown-ass man(mid-thirties) talk to me about how much he loves the Percy Jackson books.

>>10178081
he's often considered proto-nietzschian

>>10178185
>Marx obviously

>>10133257
suicide is a sin

>>9920286
It's called 'white supremacy.'

>>9685615
What about the reincarnation? He namedrops the Kali Yuga. There's an explicit ontology at work here that seems to go over your head because you're a faggot.

I'm watching The Life Aquatic right now and it's mostly water.

>>9641067
>Also I just solved 5 captchas I hate this thing
Same
>Select All Pictures Of Vehicles
>It's a cut-up picture of a stop sign with no vehicles in it
>mfw I'm just trying to talk shit about DFW

>>9631736
>Thinking that doing things that you aren't materially or intellectually prepared to do makes you an idiot
>Conservative talk radio
I mean, maybe that's the sort of sentiment that a CTR hose might express, but it's also the sort of sentiment that most people who have spent five minutes in the woods would express.

>>9606935
Whites have produced the most unequal society of all time: modern Western society. Jews are white.

>>9383585
Why is my country like this?

>be in university
>enjoy /lit/ discussion
>come to /lit/ every day
>get to grad school
>finally start to reach levels of real expertise and higher understanding in the humanities
>knowledge of literature, philosophy, and history finally starts to get reasonably comprehensive
>suddenly realize all the conversation on this board is uniformly plebeian third year undergrad tier
>suddenly realize not a single thread's level of discourse ever rises above "vaguely familiar with the topic at hand"
>suddenly realize this entire board is just catharsis for undergraduates who can't be too pretentious at university because they'll get slapped down by more knowledgeable people so they have to do it here
>suddenly realize this is an entire board filled with dabblers who are sorta earnestly interested in talking about stuff like literary postmodernism, but too lazy to put the time in and actually go read about it

>>8722684

No one in this thread is even discussing anything, even less you, which the only thing you've contributed so far is mere insults. You you claim to have respect for intellectual discourse? Please.


You're being ridiculous.

>>8715971

So what's next? We kill genetically superior people too? You can't have equality of outcome if people are inherently different by nature.

>>7408357

>be in university
>enjoy /lit/ discussion
>come to /lit/ every day
>get to grad school
>finally start to reach levels of real expertise and higher understanding in the humanities
>knowledge of literature, philosophy, and history finally starts to get reasonably comprehensive
>suddenly realize all the conversation on this board is uniformly plebeian third year undergrad tier
>suddenly realize not a single thread's level of discourse ever rises above "vaguely familiar with the topic at hand"
>suddenly realize this entire board is just catharsis for undergraduates who can't be too pretentious at university because they'll get slapped down by more knowledgeable people so they have to do it here
>suddenly realize this is an entire board filled with dabblers who are sorta earnestly interested in talking about stuff like literary postmodernism, but too lazy to put the time in and actually go read about it