/lit/ - Literature

>>14138079
why would gods be subordinate to a linguistic category? why would the proposition that a god cant be restricted in its choices by a higher law debunk atheism anyway? why would the idea that god is fully transcendant and monotheistic mean that you should believe that he then had a son called Christ?? you seriously need to reconsider your whole belief system because it is clearly absolutely incoherent.

>>13848150
>It's impossible to get better at something by practicing it. We all know Einstein was born with his innate mastery or the violen and knowledge of general relativity and he did not have to practice or study at all. This is why I stay inside my mom's basement all day and never try at all.

>>13372145
>You idiot, where the country is gray it's because they have no data on it.
t. person who lives in one of the red countries

>>13280238
>it would be immoral not to oppose the literal source of objective morality

I haven read a book since the fourth Harry Potter book came out

>>13114003
>time

>>12966378
>Then, as leftists
You're a Leftist now, thought you're just some faggot on a forum

>>12897412
t. tankie brainlet

>>12310856
Am I a brainlet for not being able to understand Parmenides

Hi guys, I am a dumb fuck and I want to get smart like you.

>what should I read?
>what should I avoid reading?
>how much and how often should I read?

help me ascend to patrician tier level /lit/ only you can help me.

>>12289753
Judges worth by IQ.

>>12174662
>Being astonished is not an explanation. How the fuck did people write the Iliad by being sincere? Were they sitting there, fighting with the gods? How are historical novels ever written? Do people travel in time? I'm not one of your mongoloid artsy one-night stands (male or female): use an argument, not rhetoric.
HOLY SHIT

Why doesn't God just destroy the devil?

I just cannot figure out this whole metre thing.

What's an iamb? What's a trochee? I mean I know the literal dictionary definitions, but WHAT are they? Can you have iambic quadametre? Sexametre? I have great difficulty in identifying stressed and unstressed syllables.
HEEEELP ARGHUGH
Perhaps I'll just stick with Doctor Seuss rhyme.

>Albert Camus
>Al-bert Cay-muhs

>I like Nietzsche

>>11839342
>I’m terrified of reading on a board dedicated to literature
>I think basic observations are “memes” because the internet dictates how I think

>>11817740
t. figured it all out

>At least I'm not an NPC

Single best book on the rules and fundamentals of the English language? Something that covers everything in detail, from the most basic grammar to the subtle art of rhetoric and is also maybe a style guide.

Yeah I'm a retard but my education was colossally shite.
I honestly can't tell you what a noun is, or the difference between a verb and an adverb, and nor can I name a single rhetorical device.

"English please."

What's the absolute stupidest advice on writing you've read or heard?

Mine was from someone well read, capable of appreciating Shakespeare and Milton, but not capable of appreciating Orwell. I asked her for writing advice before and she gave me a bunch of gobbledygook about how if I got the impulse to write, don't hesitate, just seize it, even if a voice inside says you shouldn't, and write as hard as I can over and over until I'm satisfied and it's all on paper. I said how do you know that would be good? She said, Well why don't you find out? This was seriously disappointing to me because she studies this a lot, but tgat sounded like bs out of a self help book.

>>11639624
>my argument for catholics not liking sex is another catholic having sex

Sorry bro if you need smart drugs to keep it up...