/lit/ - Literature

If you were huge like a real man you wouldn't have a problem with this.

I've got an illuminated bible I keep in my pocket for light reading.

GET IT

LIGHT

IT'S ILLUMINATED

THAT'S GIANT HUMOR FOR YOU, MANLET

FUCK OFF

Prove minimization of suffering as a moral imperative.

The problem with books like Conspiracy Against the Human Race is they describe an amoral universe and then tell me I have a moral obligation.

Why does hypothetical future suffering obligate me not to have children when my children have as much capacity to minimize their own suffering as I do?

What if having a kid minimizes my suffering?

t. der eindzigde

>And when I looked at that map of the railway network, all I could think of was The Octopus.

Frank Norris you piece of -- wait

fug

>>9061066

>tfw republicans and democrats both talk shit about the other to me
>tfw they think i'm on their side
>tfw i'm a fascist

I only listen to the good philosophers. Names likes Sargon, Molyneux, and Yiannopolous.

>>8044017
Shit, what did I actually read in English? I just graduated, though I was in tech writing rather than frou-frou English.

If I list only fiction...

Much Ado About Nothing
Macbeth
The Taming of the Shrew
The Tempest
There had to be another Shakespeare or two but I can't remember them.

Norris - The Octopus
Wharton - House of Mirth
Wright - Native Son
Cahan - The Rise of David Levinsky (here's one no non-English major will have even heard of, 500 pages of oy vey)
Cather - The Professor's House
Banks - Continental Drift

Beowulf
Gawain and the Green Knight
More - Utopia
Marlowe's Faustus
Behn - Oroonoko (didn't actually read it, >pic related)
Chaucer - Canterbury Tales
Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby
Huckleberry Finn
Pudd'nhead Wilson
Celebrated Jumping Frog
Another story that was basically Celebrated Jumping Frog but in a different place, don't remember what it was called.

A giant mess of excerpts and bits and pieces of British and American books, poetry, short stories, etc. I couldn't possibly name all of it.

Ones that stick out to me are Melville's Benito Cereno, Legend of Sleepy Hollow and that story where the guy gets drunk with dwarves or something. Charles Dickens.

Weirder shit:

Bits of the Communist Manifesto. Unabomber manifesto (only the parts that jive with marxism, none of his stuff about the left, mfw pic related). Caucasia by some black lady.

Edible Woman, pic related

A couple highly fictional accounts of Moorish Spain, though I don't think the authors considered them fictional. The poetry was good though.

>>8043156
Derrida
Lacan
Neil DeGrasse Tyson