/lit/ - Literature

4 — Dostoevsky, I believe.
10 — Virginia Woolf. That group whose name I forget was famous for its pranks.
17 — Arthur Doyle? He was fooled by some photographs of fairies, which were simply cardboard cutouts. Didn't know about his interest in motoring.
19 — Petrarch.
23 — Cervantes served at Lepanto and was for seven years a slave to the Ottomans, so I presume it was him.
33 — The Waste Land is dedicated to il miglior fabbro, Ezra Pound, and I know that he cut so much of IV — Death by Water that Eliot asked whether it was necessary to keep even the short except that remains, to which he insisted that it was absolutely essential to the meaning of the poem.
46 — Alexander Pope.
76 — Yukio Mishima. This one's easy because this anecdote gets so memed around here.
I am ashamed that I don't know more of these.

>>18965698
>go to college to study linguistics

>>16294394
the joke is on you my friend for i was only pretending to be mentally retarded.

>>14104979
>can strech the box around and change where lines end.
Fucking hell. How did it take me years to find out you can do this. I tried stretching the actual box and not the text box. Failed. And assumed you just cant.

>>13548643
>Tfw I knew about 4chan since oldfag times but I didn't start visiting it till recently since my friends made me think its all just underaged hentai and nigger jokes. Had they told me its also full of antisemitism and people who pretend to read books I would have been all over it.

>>12005139

>>11563575

Is the idea that we can't know reality beyond what it is to us, that there is a "beyond us" which is unknowable, just generally accepted in philosophical literature? Can we have a metaphysics thread without getting merc'd by the jannie?

Why do I feel like my work compares to the best of the best while I'm writing it and yet, when I read my old work after some time away, I feel like it was written by a wannabe retard?

Am I...am I retarded?

nice meme

>>8127679

Have you ever had to read a book more than one time to understand it?

>>6188550
>cheapest coffee place ever

>>5713556
that hurts man

>mfw reading about research on aggression
>"Freud saw catharsis as a useful way to relieve pent up aggresion in - harmless and constructive - ways, or the aggressive energy would be dammed up, pressure would build, either explode in violent acts or manifest itself as symptoms of mental illness"
>Researchers measured aggression levels in high school football players (Patterson, 1974)
>implying harmless or constructive
>Nope, became more hostile
>So how about direct aggression? (Geen & Quanty, 1977)
>Nope
>...
>Conclusion, "the weight of the evidence does not support the catharsis hypothesis."
>mfw when I left engineering for this

Is this why Freud is no longer considered relevant?

How can I read/comprehend faster? I'm most of the time at /g/ (technology), and I've yet to find a way to read efficiently. There are books like CLRS (algorithm Bible), and as interesting as it is, it takes me a lot of time and sometimes I don't even remember what I read because my brain blanks out. Any recommendations?

>If this kind of posts are not allowed here I'll delete it right away.

How do I start reading the Quran c/lit/s? Is there something comparable to the Oxford Annotated?

>>4238560
>retread