/lit/ - Literature

The Greeks were the sea peoples of the bronze age collapse and the Iliad is an account of their sacking the Hittites. Helen of Troy is simply symbolic for climate change

>>19923774
I know that the prerequisite to this prerequisite is this prerequisite itself.

>>19447576

bro it's just a great book/series "new hope tier adventure" lol

>thither

>quotable quote

>>17666196

>>16869157
5 is the philosopher's brain. We do not see silly shapes and images, but rather we experience a feeling of knowing the Form of the apple. Aphantasia is the enlightened state where all forms of materiality is rejected.

What meaning would suicide have anyways

Philosophy is its own time apprehended in thought

Going on vacation in a few days and the time it will take to get there will be around 16 hours + same home again but also I'd probably end up reading some by the pool and before bed.

What are some of the "must-read" books that one ought to have read? Foundational writings. If I wanted to come back with more knowledge than when I left as opposed to with just skin cancer. Thinking mainly philosophy but also history and politics. Not too big brained stuff though, it is a vacation after all so lets leave The Phenomenology of Spirit at home.

>>14569001
I just learned through intuition.
It helps I went to college though.

I would never trust writing advice sold to me.

My MAN!

>>13414269
>>13414274
I don't want to read what your peabrain thought was the most important parts of works you'll never in your lifetimes come close to matching in caliber.

Luckily for me, I've a filter for nonsense so that I don't even notice the annotations are there whilst engaged in reading.

>>13203507
>tfw i actually read in high school

>hitherto

Trying to out-pseud the people you're calling pseuds -- I remember that temptation. I think the sentence about "showing off" betrays what's really going on. To be honest, the issue of caring about being seen as highbrow would be much more glaring if you guys listed stuff like Parallel Lives. If there is only room for two plays by Shakespeare, I don't see why older works tangentially related to his less popular plays would make the cut.

>good cases could be made for hundreds or even thousands of omitted titles.
Yes, meaning that this cunt should be well aware that similar complaints could be made no matter which 100 were chosen.

>I don't read books in English

>>11284208
For fiction this is all you need and most other fiction is irrelevant:
>Dubliners by James Joyce
>Swann's Way by Marcel Proust
>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
>Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust
>Ulysses by James Joyce, accompanied page-by-page by The New Bloomsday guidebook.
>The Guermantes Way by Marcel Proust
>Moby Dick Herman Melville
>Madame Bovary by Flaubert
>The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
>Ficciones by Borges

>>11227622
>Supplementary Readings in Japanese Buddhism
ah yes, how quaint

>>11227481
ah yes, how quaint

>finally digested the oeuvre of Hegel thanks to a 5 minute video

>Despite the anonymous posting of messages, other posters easily identify particular individuals based on his or her idiosyncrasies. One such poster is the 'London Pepe poster' who often retells his daily outgoings and in particular his misanthropy. The identification of the author of a post is more prevalent than it first appears to be, for example when I tried to start a positive discussion I was instantly targeted. In particular the comments quickly came to the idea that I was a 'newfag', the critical term used to ostracise the newer posters. The posts contain many other homophobic slurs but in particular the word 'fag' is used, and often appended to other words to mark a specific user, such as 'aussiefag' to label an Australian.

>A person's post will get deleted if it goes without a response, or 'bump' as only a limited number of posts are allowed. Therefore the environment of discussion in general is one of toxicity, as to ensure his or her threads survival, he or she needs to create a provocative post. These posts spark disagreement between the anonymous users such that the thread or topic of discussion remains at the top of the board. Additionally the author of the more controversial posts will be given '(you)s' which is a form of currency or token of respect. Therefore posts may be insincere or particularly sexist, homophobic or racist to agitate or 'bait' a response from others. Of course the other posters are also aware of this social dynamic and as such may respond to other posts as being bait posts and come to disregard them. Therefore there is a particular skill in creating a thread that receives many replies and thus come to inflate the ego of the anonymous poster.

>This breeds a social dynamic of the veteran poster compared with the aforementioned 'newfag'. Bear in mind not everything can be posted, in particular pornographic content and offtopic discussion will be deleted by the forum moderators or 'janitors' as they are called. These janitors are also called 'jannies' which is a reference to the transphobic slur 'trannie'. Not all posters exhibit signs of transphobia as some express their love of 'traps', a slang term for a transsexual. /lit/ in particular may receive many posts about liking these 'traps' and finding books to help identify their feeling. As posters may often use the phrase 'any books for this feel', using /lit/ as a form of therapy and their hateful comments as a form of catharsis. /lit/ is not representative of the entire website, as pornographic content is allowed on other boards such as the more prevalent /r9k/. To conclude, the board holds a space for those social pariahs who like to discuss well known literature and within it are hidden rules that one can not decipher on first glance.

>Despite the anonymous posting of messages, other posters easily identify particular individuals based on his or her idiosyncrasies. One such poster is the 'London Pepe poster' who often retells his daily outgoings and in particular his misanthropy. The identification of the author of a post is more prevalent than it first appears to be, for example when I tried to start a positive discussion I was instantly targeted. In particular the comments quickly came to the idea that I was a 'newfag', the critical term used to ostracise the newer posters. The posts contain many other homophobic slurs but in particular the word 'fag' is used, and often appended to other words to mark a specific user, such as 'aussiefag' to label an Australian.

>A person's post will get deleted if it goes without a response, or 'bump' as only a limited number of posts are allowed. Therefore the environment of discussion in general is one of toxicity, as to ensure his or her threads survival, he or she needs to create a provocative post. These posts spark disagreement between the anonymous users such that the thread or topic of discussion remains at the top of the board. Additionally the author of the more controversial posts will be given '(you)s' which is a form of currency or token of respect. Therefore posts may be insincere or particularly sexist, homophobic or racist to agitate or 'bait' a response from others. Of course the other posters are also aware of this social dynamic and as such may respond to other posts as being bait posts and come to disregard them. Therefore there is a particular skill in creating a thread that receives many replies and thus come to inflate the ego of the anonymous poster.

>This breeds a social dynamic of the veteran poster compared with the aforementioned 'newfag'. Bear in mind not everything can be posted, in particular pornographic content and offtopic discussion will be deleted by the forum moderators or 'janitors' as they are called. These janitors are also called 'jannies' which is a reference to the transphobic slur 'trannie'. Not all posters exhibit signs of transphobia as some express their love of 'traps', a slang term for a transsexual. /lit/ in particular may receive many posts about liking these 'traps' and finding books to help identify their feeling. As posters may often use the phrase 'any books for this feel', using /lit/ as a form of therapy and their hateful comments as a form of catharsis. /lit/ is not representative of the entire website, as pornographic content is allowed on other boards such as the more prevalent /r9k/. To conclude, the board holds a space for those social pariahs who like to discuss well known literature and within it are hidden rules that one can not decipher on first glance.

>tfw capitalism does it again