/lit/ - Literature

>>10302322

>people who try to prove the Merchant Of Venice wasn't anti-semitic
when will this meme die?

>be me
>read DFW's "Infinite Jest" to my gf
>she doesn't understand it
>says it's only a 7/10

>"Do whatever makes you feel good. You decide whatever this means to you."

>frog posters

>TL:DR

>>9789863
>inundating /lit/ with rule-abiding but inane, worthless threads.

no change from the usual, then?

>>9770659
>no one knows what the fuck god meant and according to nietzsche he's dead anyways

>>9699820
>>9699803
>living in a city
is there more anti-intellectual thing to do?

>>9670634

>>9571181
>Liberty University

>>9532520

My entire family hates books and reading. I'll give a rundown

>Mother just don't read. Calls reading a waste of time. Has not read a book since school. Proudly campaigned to have the local library shut down and carried a banner outside for 2 days that said 'no books, no words, we want our town free of the burden of word-dem'
>Brother hates books. Sometimes burns mine for 'fun'
>Dad has read 2 books in 26 years - one was a Wheres Waldo and one was a bedtime story he read to me and my brother, before falling asleep halfway through. Considers nutrition labels books (and is fat)
>grandparents taught them all this. Grandfather on dads side used to read books on the toilet, then got bowel cancer and blamed the books for making him sit on the toilet too long - family still refues to let me read when I have a shit because of it

retards

do you really think that western civilization started hundreds of years after the bible was written

>>9425316
>is about anticipating the effects of a socioeconomic policy on a sample town over the span of several decades.
sounds nice
>interactive fiction
oh

>>9403213
Anne Frank

Name three books

>>9319001
Nobody buys ironic nigger posting

>>9303279
Those fucking jump cuts.

>write everyday
But WHAT should i write? Should i constantly create new characters and stories. Last days i write mostly porn and video games analysis, is this also passable, or is it "low-effort garbage"?

>>8990554
>I paid more attention to books by people of color and trans
>Diverse books
>Books with people with disabilities(even though quite a majority of authors have a mental one)
>Not a fan of books with trans characters written by cis
>Harry Potter Alliance Friends
I can't finish this shit

How am I supposed to take the literary community seriously when there was so much "death of the republic!!!" over emotional bullshittery in the media, with every journalist, novelist, film maker, psychologist, economist, and assorted social scientists literally lining up to write overblown shit about events in 2016? According to many people on lit I should continue to buy their stuff and give them my money and attention and take their opinions more seriously than my own.

I'm serious. There was always some Princeton Professor of Public Discourse or Amherst Lecturer in Philology read to wade in with appeals to analogy, strawmen, false narratives, trivial concepts and frameworks, false dichotomies, and so on. Of course that's what they do for a living anyway but when they speak without their trivial jargon not even the biggest pseudo intellectual can deny it.

Maybe literature is just entertainment like that KitKat I had a few minutes ago... no, that can't be it... how could all the theorising be justified if that was the case...

>mfw I look like Kafka

>>8940854
>redpill
>leftist
>cuckery
>muh feels
>nihilism
>commie
>opressed
>feminists
>cultural marxists