/lit/ - Literature

>>14236073
The internet.

>Enjoy House of Leaves
>Want to engage more overtly with the source material
>Begin to mark up the pages as if I'm going crazy while reading it
>Start hyping the book up to friends
>They express interest
>Begin marking up the pages with friend's reading in mind
>Goofy spooky bullshit such as "hello anon" on page 55
>Cross out each blank page with an increasing number of lines
>Mark the fuck out of the first 100 or so pages before growing weary of the project
>Finish book and abandon feeble attempt to make it more creepy
>Friends interest wanes
>My embarrassment over the personalized narrative overlay slumbers
>Friends interest peaks much later
>Loan it out without much thought
>Get a text later on
>"Do you mark your books up a lot?"
>Memory of edits comes rushing back
>Apologize profusely for offering such a half assedly modified copy
>They say there is no problem
>They finish the book and return it
>Too ashamed to broach the topic at the time
>Don't even know if they finished it

That was probably my most embarrassing one, though I guess a close second and third would be that the two times I tried to loan out my copy of Stoner it went unread because it was too sad for the people I loaned it to. What are your experiences loaning out books in the past /lit/?

>>14199764
Hellp yourself.

>>14163241
When Hitchens conferred the linguistic shackles of Memetics onto God he actually conferred divinity onto Memetics.

>>14160344
Admittedly I've only skimmed the article, but it's starting to look like French intellectuals specifically rejected the left due to the attempts to incorporate said intellectuals into the political parties more directly. I'm curious if this is an implicit statement as to the role of intellectual as lofty observers of the nation rather than practitioners of statecraft.

So much for Philosopher kings.

>>14150827
But aren't rigid spelling guidelines a relatively recent invention? In an age where communities are generating overnight and dissolving later in the day does it not make sense that the escalating generation of slang vocabulary necessitates the outsourcing of bending your text to the will of basic English without having to put in that effort?