/lit/ - Literature

>be me
>have a very weird style of writing emails where it's overly formal but emotional, argumentative but also apologetic; where I deliberate and justify the things I'm saying, sometimes mentioning how what I'm saying is shameful but then claiming it's justified. I usually apologize at the end of the email as well and do things like "do not assume" and "perhaps this might seem"—the whole email comes off as extremely manic
>email professor about something
>in their response they link the Uni's mental health support page and make an aside to seek support if I need it
>email another professor during the weekend
>"I am exceptionally responding to you out of hours and on the weekend, as you are evidently concerned and upset. [...]"
Do I just emit mental illness?

>>15932361
No I'm not. Your attempting at upsetting me are futile. I am stow ic

>have no idea how to write dialogue because i’m an autistic shut in who never talks to people

>that's right, yet another man

>>14759076
>https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/sartre/comment/celine.htm
holy fucking kek

>>14710583
Holy shit, Richard Spencer posts on /lit/

>>14710670
>which is when I show them the quote where Margaret Atwood says it was inspired by the Iranian Revolution (I keep it ready on my phone)

holy shit. which bootleg publisher is this lmao

>>13856701
>he deletes his account

>This thread
Can't y'all niggas just have sex lmao

>>11846607
lmfao, u are in some serious denial
https://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Republic/Book_V
>Had we not better appoint certain festivals at which we will bring together the brides and bridegrooms, and sacrifices will be offered and suitable hymeneal songs composed by our poets: the number of weddings is a matter which must be left to the discretion of the rulers, whose aim will be to preserve the average of population? There are many other things which they will have to consider, such as the effects of wars and diseases and any similar agencies, in order as far as this is possible to prevent the State from becoming either too large or too small.
>We shall have to invent some ingenious kind of lots which the less worthy may draw on each occasion of our bringing them together, and then they will accuse their own ill-luck and not the rulers.
>And I think that our braver and better youth, besides their other honours and rewards, might have greater facilities of intercourse with women given them; their bravery will be a reason, and such fathers ought to have as many sons as possible.

>>11842012
>Tendies of death?

>>11780741
ah, the pedos are coming out of the woodwork already i see

>>11768963
>the shepherd mystics

>>11757839
>Welcome to Tiny Train World, Winston

>when crito basically calls socrates a giant manbaby for taking philosophy seriously as an adult

>>11236164
>>11238634
gets me everytime

>>9543360

>>18747
>Metal is listened to by intelligent people. There are studies

>janitor deleting perfectly good posts

>>7904676
>>7904656
You should look up Homer on Wikipedia and learn more about how the poems were composed, and more importantly why and for which audiences they were composed. That will help you a lot. Also look up the Greek Dark Age so you can understand the audience and its priorities more.

Achilles was trapped by fate and necessity between two equally shit choices (another thing the Greeks loved). But again, if you look at the composition of the poem, you can ask questions about why that particular anecdote was included - we can't even say for sure whether it was a common or popular telling of Achilles' fate. Maybe the people who finally wrote down the poems picked that version of the anecdote for a reason lost to us.