/lit/ - Literature

>>21586710
it’s over for you

>spend 15 minutes crafting a thought answer to a socio-philosophical problem, weighing options and consequences of each action while still acknowledging the beliefs of my interlocutor
>only response is an epic amphibian meme
I want my (You)s, godammit

Dumb frogposters

>>12122649
I gotta say, the end makes up for the way the second half drags on. Go back and read the Intro after finishing the last page. But don't look at the intro again until then.

>"Read Finnegans Wake, it's the greatest novel ever written in the English language!"
>Three pages in and I'm convinced I'm having a stroke
>Call ambulance but when I get to the hospital they can't find anything wrong with me
>$5,000 medical bill all because Joyce thought it would be funny to troll people with 850 pages of literal gibberish

>Death of the Author

>using "one another" and "each other" interchangeably

>>6746270
>lol
Do I look like I'm fucking around here?

>>6688951
I don't get it at all...

>tfw the book you were reading was good but the ending was sub-par

>tfw never been starving or in poverty
>tfw never experienced the horrors of war
>tfw no crippling ailments

How am I supposed to become a great writer when the only suffering I've endured is some standard middle class ennui/isolation?

idk but its time to finally share these rare pepes with the world

>>6242707
>a copies
have no idea

>>6242361
No your are not dump
structuralism = few bright ideas and too much nonsense ^^

mfw i wrote the best essay on foucault but got a bad grade because le teacher does not understand structuralism properly

>footnotes are in the back of the book rather than on the bottom of the page

>>6043133

>>5563006
I read Christopher Hitchens and was deeply disappointed he did not show up.

I award you 0 points, OP.

I fucking hate you, /lit/, you're all bunch of elitist fucks

I didn't come here to be called an idiot, I only wanted an insight on how other people perceive philosophical texts


Fuck you guys, seriously. Fuck. You.

>second year of English degree approaching
>first year was shit, academically and socially
>gonna spend my free time networking / looking for internships / getting a job to save up to pay my student debt
>tfw gonna fuck academia right in it's shitty face