/lit/ - Literature

>>14773244
...what?

>>14516381
Best book to learn more about the Gnostics?

>>13843860
bugmen work for someone else, they don't create something new

>>13798510
It's only 26% of us? I had no idea it was that low, and before last year, I thought everybody had inner speech.

>>12628590
>brb learning Ancient Greek, Latin, German, Spanish, Italian, French, etc to the point of not only fluency, but to cultural fluency as well so I can understand all the tiny references and turns of phrases.

But I know you only speak one language anyway, and are just trying to troll

>>12615350
>Yes Virginia, Andorids DO dream of Finnegans' Wake: Book 2, the Pitcher in the Rye

>>12340670
>Thinking Rome ever existed

imagine being this delusional

>>12146799
Book stan is probably the gayest thing I've seen typed out in awhile

White pipo shouldn't be using hip hop lingo, it comes off as forced and uncomfortable, like all those videos of boomers attempting to not throw their hips doing fortnite dances

I prefer the way hardcover books without a jacket, but the jacket helps protect the hardcover book... what do?

>>11710754
>I managed to illicit a
>Response

>The OBJECT of any work of
>ART

>MY POEMS ARE LITERALLY CRAFTED WITH THE FOCUS OF A MAN BEHIND THE CURTAIN ON THE ROAD OF LIFE FLUTTERING DOWN THE HIGHWAY OF PAIN
>You wouldn't understand

>But you think you do
>sad!

Is this possible? Seems like a good way to meet other people who like to pretend they are intelligent. But I don't know the site very well

>>11602474
>I like Ulysses a lot
>Oh, you like the Greeks, huh? I love the books that Socrates wrote, I had to read them in a class in college
>No, Ulysses was written by James Joyce
>Who is that?
>Just an author. What are you reading?
>I'm reading Harry Potter again! Have you read it? It's really deep
>No I haven't read it
>Really?! Oh my God, you have to read it, it's sooo good!

These are my usual conversations on first dates

What should I get? I want to listen to classic work in the Western Canon

>>11542060
Sure, my book is about a scientifficaly created sentient owl, searching for the last clue to a buried treasure in a poem. It's a very kafka-esque exploration of the existential rejection our modern society heaps on the kubrikian story telling format. It's all very pretentious

>>9357024
What information is this chart trying to convey

>>7877912

I'm guessing English isn't your primary language?

>>6850973
>I like videogames.

>>5221728
>sing along
>with Joanna Newsom

A yellow eyed girl fell from the sky.

It's really that fucking easy. You can describe the weather after this sentence if you want, but that's the best way you're going to phrase this sentence. Do any of you amateurs even read?