/lit/ - Literature

>One of the old philosophers, Lord Bacon tells us, used to say that life and death were just the same to him
>"Why then," said an objector, "do you not kill yourself."
>The philosopher answered, "Because it is just the same."

>>17044350
This soulless An*glo bugman with his Whig history.

>I have no knowledge of either Sanskrit or Arabic. But I have done what I could to form a correct estimate of their value. I have read translations of the most celebrated Arabic and Sanskrit works. I have conversed both here and at home with men distinguished by their proficiency in the Eastern tongues. I am quite ready to take the Oriental learning at the valuation of the Orientalists themselves. I have never found one among them who could deny that a single shelf of a good European library was worth the whole native literature of India and Arabia.[3]
Mfw Angloids have always been translation pseuds

>>7829825
Because /lit/ is comprised of undergrads who sincerely believe the meme trilogy and 1984 is the height of great literature.