/lit/ - Literature

My university's English Department is having a general meeting, and I've purchased a sheet ice cream cake for it. Hooray!

I've been trying to think of a literary pun that's better than "Tart of Darkness". That doesn't even belong on an ice cream cake. Any suggestions?

>>5449830
I suppose my primary reason for reading them is to enjoy myself - but often what I enjoy is trying to understand a novel on a deep level. Trying to figure out what inspirations it had, trying to find comparisons to the real world, if the author was trying to get some message across or not. Sometimes novels pose cool philosophical questions and explore them - Scalzi's Redshirts did that for me. Imagine the existentialist headache that might be caused by a fictional character discovering his own nature as such?

Another example of the latter category is The Picture of Dorian Grey - if you could remove the physical negatives of vices (drug addiction, disease, stuff like that), is there any reason not to be a hedonist? Does it affect you, or your soul, in a fundamental way?

So the answer to your question is yes, but it's more than just 'durhur, funny humor/cool action'.