/lit/ - Literature

>>2700348
hey bro.
the book is extremely weird, definitely not what i was expecting; shit's constantly oscillating from depressingly morbid to ludicrously hilarious.

i'd listen to some jefferson airplane or the doors, it takes place in roughly that time period anyway.

Why are there so few attractive looking authors, /lit/?

Being lonely moves people to writing?
Being socially isolated forces people to retreat into their creative minds?
Were all the attractive, strong authors too busy living life than observing?

>>2679640
nigga was pretty tasty.

>>2668225
ok, so repost your reddit rage comics, regurgitate your innocuous threads and scorn every expressive conflict.

at least you won't be in danger of being seen as a 'wannabe-intellectual'.

no, because i don't write for the physical experience of writing and aside from being pretentious; typewriters are expensive and functionally obsolete.

they're good if you like being a preening little cunt, though.

Let me tell something about SWAG.

"Convert to my new faith crowd
I offer you what no one has had before
I offer you inclemency and wine
The one who won't have bread will be fed by the light of my sun
People nothing is forbidden in my faith
There is loving and drinking
And looking at the Sun for as long as you want
And this godhead forbids you nothing"

I think it's extremely important we read his poetry.

Firstly, because it's a nice example of the old wisdom that 'behind every genocide there stands a poet'.

But it's a beautiful counter to the idiocy of the sociological lie that in todays western democratic societies there is too much freedom, people feel isolated and insecure, and they are forced to look for stability in firm traditional values.

>>2412477
>>2412478

I chose english because the most powerful nation on earth speaks english and because of the pervasiveness of the english language in other cultures (like new technologies, brand-names etc).

Also because of English's uniquely diverse origins and history, which lead it to have the largest vocabulary (i think somewhere over a million words now, according to Google).

If you can think of a better language I'm all ears. I just don't think artificial languages like Esperanto can work in this way.

You are all smalltime.

>William Butler Yeats
>Arthur Rimbaud
>Percy Shelley
>William Shakespeare
>Wystan Hugh Auden
>Ezra Pound
>Osip Mandelstam
>Jackie Chan
>Edward Estlin Cummings
>Pablo Neruda

too easy, OP.

>>2277670

I already said several posts ago I know what you're trying to do, but you still haven't managed to do it and you accuse ME of being dull?

Religion and science are based on fundamentally different belief systems, Religion on authority and science on empiricism and principle.

One of these leads to dictatorships, fanaticism and exploitation. The other one doesn't.

>>2220192

the idea is that prisoner would go unconscious while experiencing the pain, thus removing the emotional revulsion experienced by the administrators of the pill so that you can clearly see the higher morality of having the terrorist reveal the location of the bomb or whatever.

Because it was written by another author who never claimed ownership.

>>2182129
You are just iterating the same non-point. whether or not you consider something to be 'serious' does not affect its ability to reveal the ideology behind it.

need I remind of you what wittgenstein said? 'A serious and good philosophical work could be written consisting entirely of jokes.'

>>2182136

more resistance. I like to gauge how many posters on /lit/ subscribe to popular american culture.

>>2172232

this.

The question is not whether /lit/ wants TAR. The question is rather if TAR wants the reality of /lit/.

From my own experience, the 'community' here is too nebulous and chaotic to maintain a successful zine.

>>2060036

everyone is left leaning where my and ty live, and conservatives are treated with suspicion and passive-aggressive resentment.

Keynesian games work in scandinavian countries, where the people are parsimonious and few.

I'm not convinced they work in countries gripped by alcoholism and a genetically degenerate population.

also, literature

>>2037310

>my post before the explanation for posted, perfectly rational to assume the thread was 404'd by mods
>my point still stands
>other voices, other rooms was exceptional for a debut novel by a 22 year old author.

>>2031303

yep

There is no debate.

Can we have a thread about this guy?

I recently finished Other Voices, Other Rooms and I'm going to start The Grass Harp Soon. I don't usually like Southern lit, but Other Voices, Other Rooms was really good.

shit.