/lit/ - Literature

>>19394743
>>19394678

Marianne answers the door when Connell rings the bell. She's still wearing her school uniform, but she's taken off the sweater, so it's just the blouse and skirt, and she has no shoes on, only tights.
Oh, hey, he says.
Come on in.
She turns and walks down the hall. He follows her, closing the door behind him. Down a few steps in the kitchen, his mother Lorraine is peeling off a pair of rubber gloves. Marianne hops onto the countertop and picks up an open jar of chocolate spread, in which she has left a teaspoon.
Marianne was telling me you got your mock results today, Lorraine says.
We got English back, he says. They come back separately. Do you want to head on?
Lorraine folds the rubber gloves up neatly and replaces them below the sink. Then she starts unclipping her hair. To Connell this seems like something she could accomplish in the car.
And I hear you did very well, she says.
He was top of the class, says Marianne.
Right, Connell says. Marianne did pretty good too. Can we go?
Lorraine pauses in the untying of her apron.
I didn't realize we were in a rush, she says.
He puts his hands in his pockets and suppresses an irritable sigh, but suppresses it with an audible intake of breath, so that it still sounds like a sigh.

Why do textbooks always refer to a nongendered subject as “she?” If its about muh gender equality, why not “they?”

>>19231355
>his is coming from someone who overall agrees with Russel's ideas. I'm a great admirer of him.
Ask your bull for permission to read Russel. If he gives you the okay then go for it.

>>18575829
that guys voice sounds like a faggy rapist. I turned it off two seconds after he started speaking. redpillers should just hire female voice actors with cute voices to narrate their videos.

>>17850685
i listen the whole thing

>>17492221
>>17492281
We're all gonna make it, frens. Despite the occasional retardation, this board is the closest community to my being than any other.
>>17492658
You have missed Heidegger. Maybe read some solid secondary literature on the history of philosophy to figure out any other philosopher you missed but should certainly enjoy. I for one, discovered Abelard, Holderlin and Blaga.
As for the top100, the top 20 should certainky suffice (Homer, Dante, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Bulgakov, J.Williams, Virgil). Of course they are not equal in their grandiosity, but you can figure it out yourself anon. Maybe try some Japanese writers like Dazai or Mishima, or maybe you should inquire into the epics such as Nibelungenlied, Kaledava, Miorita or Beowulf.

A Persian Zoroastrian professor was teaching a class on classical history

”Before the class begins, you must get on your knees and worship Xerxes and accept that the Persian satrapy system was the greatest form of government in the ancient world, even greater than Athenian Democracy!”

At this moment, a brave, patriotic, hoplite from Athens who had fought in phalanx hundreds of times and understood the necessity of a powerful Athenian navy and fully supported all military decision made by the Strategoi stood up.

”Who's the greatest ruler in history, helot?”

The arrogant professor smirked quite Iranianly and smugly replied “Xerxes, you stupid Greek”

”Wrong. It’s Themistocles. If it was Xerxes as you say… then wouldn't he have won at Salamis?”

The professor was visibly shaken, and dropped his chalk and copy of Shahnameh. He stormed out of the room crying those persian crocodile tears. The same tears persians cried when Athens supported their Greek brothers of the eastern Aegean in their revolt against the “king of kings” when they justly sought to overthrow their Persian oppressors. There is no doubt that at this point our professor wished he had pulled himself up by his bootstraps and become more than a Persiaboo hack.

The students applauded and became hoplite citizen-soldiers sworn to defend the Polis that day and accepted Pericles as their strategos and savior. An owl named “Athenian Democracy” flew into the room and perched atop the Greek Flag and shed a tear on the chalk. The Odyssey was read several times, and Athena herself showed up and implemented direct democracy for all adult male citizens.

The professor lost his tenure and was fired the next day. He tried to flee back east to his shit "empire" but Poseidon sent him to the bottom.

>conservatism in 1790
>writing Reflections on the Revolution in France
>conservatism in 2020
>defending Drumpf's intelligence

>μεν δέ