/lit/ - Literature

>>2036384

hey fabbo i just noticed your trip as Ayn in it

i'll add that to my list of reasons for why i hate you

Reading a country's mythology is often a great way for understanding their modern cultural ideologies.

>>1805802

it's not creepy if it's true.

>>1779603

Misogynist.

Don't listen to any of this quasi-mystical bullshit, OP.

Read some Camus.

>>1752544

many people like d&e and to be fair his obsession and skill at deconstructing invariably becomes more constructive than most anons and tripfriends alike.

His arrogance is justified somewhat imo, and relative to freaks like onionring you can appreciate how far from being corrosively arrogant he really is.

i like d&e

>>1741439

I'm not a pacifist.

Sometimes killing is necessary to prevent further suffering. I think NATO should assassinate Gaddafi, for example, because then the war in Libya would come to a much swifter end and many lives would be saved.

The killing of Bin Laden will have no such effect, was not carried out in the way of something sombre and inevitable but as a glorious sacrifice on the alter of America's obsession with itself.

In fact, far from making things worse, by killing him they have made him a martyr and even the CIA admits this will only exacerbate terrorists more.

How old are we talking, here?

One tripfriend on this board is confirmed for having autism, OP, however she is universally seen as the least favourite of all the tripfriends on /lit/.

Make of that what you will.

>>1687173

Some people see it as existentialist, others see it as a more political anti-totalitarian book.

>>1687186

Probably The Metamorphosis, I like Breakfast at Tiffany's too.

Agree with him or not, Freud revolutionised psychiatry, psychoanalytics and neurology forever..

Percy Blythe Shelley wrote an excellent essay discussing the importance of poetry and literature for the progression of civilisation:
http://www.bartleby.com/27/23.html

>>1673750
>>1673751

Being forced to retreat into the world of intellectual creativity may make your feelings of superiority amongst materialistic younger american girls legitimate, but here it's just a complex.

>>1663075

>No criticism of any of the other authors mentioned being called such

Because what really matters is that this thread was flawed and confusing from it's premise. It's inevitable people would recommend non-existentialist literature, I don't even need to say it.

/soc/ seems to have implemented a way to remove tripcodes from posts, effectively forcing anon since anyone can pretend to be you.

Personally I think there are only a few trips who are really detrimental to this board, and they don't post frequently enough to be regarded as a significant issue.

>>1646203

You are trying to impress the girl you are fucking with your clever tattoos which are supposed to be indicative of your clever personality.

>>1646207

You know what made it fall out of popularity?

Sophistocation and culture.

I hope you're not seriously advocating a return to the tribalistic and primitive tattooing as a fundamental aspect of 'human nature', because it's not.

It's and obsolete social construct, revived through pop culture and the hedonistic lust for attention and identity in a 21st century minds devoid of any real cultural or historic substance.

>>1637013

Rand's philosophy is too concerned with individual freedom for intel/lit/uals to HATE it, however its absurd popularity and politicisation amongst brain dead republicans.

Also, Rand is generally disregarded by serious intellectuals because of her the gross simplifications and generalisations she makes in the construction of her theories.

>>1622070

hakas have you been the one posting emotes and lolo all this time?

>>1617323

If you weren't saying that /lit/ was generally smug and I shouldn't care because of that then that is fatalistic.

If you were generalising the opinions of /lit/ on Tolkien (that the majority of /lit/ dislikes him), and you specifically used the word /lit/ to distance yourself from said opinions, then you're wrong AND you're smug.

However your strained use of that specific Oscar Wilde picture implies you were bored by the mention of Tolkien.

Where is Notch?

is this the part where we fuck?