/lit/ - Literature

Why is it a good thing to live a "tough life"? Isn't it better to have a healthy upper-class upbringing where all your needs are met and you don't end up a cynical, fat degenerate? Weren't most of the greats born into royalty, while Bukowski is barely even a household name?

>in new testament christians keep harping on "soul"
>soul this and soul that the soul of man saving the soul etc
>have no idea what is even being signified
Is it the principle of life? Because that would be answered by Biology. Was this all just the cope of people who had yet to develop a coherent account of Biology?

wtf is a "soul"?

>you will never not feel like a larper when writing latin
I just want it to be a living language. All other languages suck compared to it. Why did it have to devolve into the romance languages?

After reading Postmodernist literature I can no longer take Marxism seriously. Frankly speaking, Grand Narratives are stupid.

Should I learn Italian or Spanish? Which has the greater literature in your opinion? I've studied Latin and French.

>>16489211
I don't watch videos

>>16476727
I'm slightly autistic.

>>15249358
Nothing excites me anymore, not women or sex. I am a callused shell of something that was once human. I'm longing to flirt with the temptress death. Something new and excited. Maybe my heart will flutter, I'll lose my breath and my stomach will turn like when I was first in love.

Turning 20 in two months and I haven't publish anything yet.

>>10965979
>Crime in Baltimore, generally concentrated in areas high in poverty, has been above the national average for many years. Overall reported crime has dropped by 60% from the mid 1990s to the mid 2010s, but homicide rates remain high and exceed the national average. The worst years for crime in Baltimore overall were from 1993–1996; 1995, with 96,243 crimes reported in 1995 (compare with 38,321 in 2014, albeit following a population decline of 100,000). Baltimore's 344 homicides in 2015 represented the highest homicide rate in the city's recorded history—52.5 per 100,000 people, surpassing the record set in 1993—and the second-highest for U.S. cities behind St. Louis and ahead of Detroit. To put that in perspective, New York City, a city with a 2015 population of 8,491,079 recorded a total of 339 homicides in 2015. Baltimore is a city with a 2015 population of 621,849; which means that in 2015 Baltimore had a homicide rate 14 times higher than New York City's. Of Baltimore's 344 homicides in 2015, 321 (93.3%) of the victims were African-American.[citation needed] Chicago, which saw 762 homicides in 2016 compared to Baltimore's 318, still had a homicide rate (27.2) that was half of Baltimore's because Chicago has a population 4 times greater than Baltimore's.[citation needed] Drug use and deaths by drug use (particularly drugs used intravenously, such as heroin) are a related problem which has crippled Baltimore for decades. Among cities greater than 400,000, Baltimore ranked 2nd in its opiate drug death rate in the United States behind Dayton, Ohio. The DEA reported that a staggering 10% of Baltimore's population- about 64,000 people- are addicted to heroin.

>Once a predominantly industrial town, with an economic base focused on steel processing, shipping, auto manufacturing (General Motors Baltimore Assembly), and transportation, the city experienced deindustrialization which cost residents tens of thousands of low-skill, high-wage jobs.[171] The city now relies on a low-wage service economy, which accounts for 31% of jobs in the city.[172][173] Around the turn of the century, Baltimore was the leading US manufacturer of rye whiskey and straw hats. It also led in refining of crude oil, brought to the city by pipeline from Pennsylvania.[174]

As of March 2015 the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates Baltimore's unemployment rate at 8.1%[175] while one quarter of Baltimore residents (and 37% of Baltimore children) live in poverty.

Doesn't sound promising anon.