/lit/ - Literature

>>19055000
Checked. Trips confirm the message.

>>18665762
Hello Butters. I will bite through your bunions with bare teeth.

>>18648338
Seconding this. Age 18-21 I was some kind of overgrown 16 year old. Only after then did I actually feel like I was physically and mentally capable of engaging with women (fuck, even the general public) on equal footing

I am the center

Rubbing Emily Dickinson's feet.

Smelling between Emily Dickinson's toes.

Sucking the sweat out of Emily Dickinson's pantyhose.

Opening Emily Dickinson's anus with a speculum.

Watching Emily Dickinson's grey shit dribble onto the wool sheets.

Avoiding eye contact with Emily Dickinson while locating and removing her colon.

Liquifying Emily Dickinson's abdomen in a 100 litre drum of acid.

Goodbye, Emily Dickinson.

>>18526731
Any good NEET autodidact should be capable of mogging a mediocre PhD student

King. I kneel.

>>18383752
>books? No thanks, I absorb gnosis by sympathetically resonating with the souls of Hyperboreans.

>>18166095

>What did "healing" feminity create?

Men.

>>17971119
Here's why I personally favour reading ebooks:
>no book spine problems
>can take my library to the shop, bus stop, park, mall, etc
>easier navigation, again due to not having to hold the spine down and a digital table of contents allowing me to jump from any section in the book
>can take annotations and modify them however I want
>easier bookmarking
>ability to search for any word or phrase in the book, or even better, multiple books at one time
>ability to save all of my annotations, bookmarks, books, papers in the cloud or my PC by pressing a single button
>ability to change font color, size, and style (so if I wish, I could download an epub of Hume's Essays and read it in the original font, or I could get Goethe's Tasso and read it in Fraktur)
>can take screenshots of multiple pages and share them with my friends
>can instantly translate any foreign phrase into my language (no Latin or Greek though)
>have access to the entire OED and can look up even the most obscure words in an instant
>have access to other foreign dictionaries in French, German, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Polish, etc
>have the option to speed read certain books by pressing a button which will presents the entire text in a series of discrete words one at a time whose speed can be changed to whatever
>can request entire books to be read by state of the art Voice technology, again, in multiple languages (example:https://vocaroo.com/1nBi4Bz2x8sR))
>able to read books not only from the 19th century, but also medieval manuscripts and modern florilegia
>books are free

>>17966562
Nothing. Also, there is nothing wrong with reading Plato. Now, please leave the board.

>>17820813
Check out my dubs, Mr. Card.

>why yes, I only read epubs from libgen on a kindle and haven't bought a physical book in a decade

If people understood that they weren't free they would be inspired toward real action and proving their worth, which is counteractive to the global human-cattle production scheme.

But, since people already believe that they are free, they feel any act they do is justified by their "individuality", but in fact they only take themselves further and further away from reality and actualization. They only have the freedom to descend, not ascend.

>>17720693
>a cope
>a big cope
>copeville
>coping mechanism
>cope time
>cope lord
>cope and more cope
>cope LOL
>cope CRINGE
COPE.

>>17587127
>If you're learning math as a hobby you're deranged.
Yes.

>>17447321
Tend to your women, Akka.

I never read Stephen King in my life. All I know about him is the clown and that shitty flick (The Shining)

It's not about pain or pleasure, but about the will to live, the unquenchable force of the spirit.

>>16878453
>tfw reading the actor-cover NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE edition of a book on the bus
Who am I trying to impress?

>>16853747
οἴομαι γὰρ ἅπαντας τοὺς Ῥωμαίους εἶναι κιναίδους

>>16849920
Why, of course, I exclusively consult my copies of Novum Testamentum Græcum (Editio critica maior) for the NT, and the Academia Scientiarum Gottingensis edition of the Septuagint for the OT.

>>16832410
Nah, OT God is the infinite, amoral and almighty God of this world that levels cities to ash and raises nations to empires. NT "god" is just some Jewish huckster wandering around Palestine with his crew of hippies and kvetching at everyone he sees.

>>16825445
Cambridge History of Political Thought and the primary sources it cites for political theory.

The following for rhetoric:
• Walz's Rhetores Graeci
• Spengel's Rhetores Graeci
• Radermacher's Artium Scriptores
• Kassel's edition of Aristotle's "Rhetoric"
• Halm's Rhetores Latini Minores
• Ernesti's Lexicon Technologiæ Græcorum Rhetoricæ
• Ueding's Historisches Worterbuch der Rhetorik
• Volkmann's Die Rhetorik der Griechen und Römer

Then, read Martin L. West's edition of Homer's epics with Aristotle's Topics and Poetics and you'll be golden.