/lit/ - Literature

>>21419663
>/qa/ won

ITT: we post a poem and the next post has to post something better


Odi profanum vulgus et arceo.
Favete linguis: carmina non prius
audita Musarum sacerdos
virginibus puerisque canto.

Regum timendorum in proprios greges,
reges in ipsos imperium est Iovis,
clari Giganteo triumpho,
cuncta supercilio moventis.

Est ut viro vir latius ordinet
arbusta sulcis, hic generosior
descendat in campum petitor,
moribus hic meliorque fama
contendat, illi turba clientium
sit maior: aequa lege Necessitas
sortitur insignis et imos,
omne capax movet urna nomen.

Horace, Odes III

OP here. Triggered the classic 4channeler latinx autism with a basic nonstarter bait question again! feels great. you insecure hispanotards are too easy, which proves your language sucks literarily compared to say english or french, thanks for playing!

>>19262268
>He woke up

>Coming upon a schoolroom, [Alcibiades] asked for a book of the Iliad, and when the teacher said that he had nothing of Homer's, Alcibiades hit him a blow with his fist and passed on.

>>19100159
Yes, I do. There will never be the amount needed to make that 4.99999… into 5, but there will always be a minuscule amount that separates it from 5, even if they are so close that we can treat them the same in equations without any practical difference manifesting itself. If that minuscule amount was added to it then it would just be 5 and not 4.99999..

There is nothing wrong with being derivative. Ulysses is derivative. Gravity's rainbow is derivative. Blood meridian is derivative. Wurthering heights is derivative. Moby-dick is derivative. Don quixote is derivative. Goethe is derivative. Shakespeare is derivative. Chaucer is derivative. The bible is derivative. Homer is derivative. Everything originates from something. Everything draws influence from something. Originality doesn't and has never mattered. Originality is simply a cope for your inability to write well and think deeply.

There is nothing wrong with being derivative. Ulysses is derivative. Gravity's rainbow is derivative. Blood meridian is derivative. Wurthering heights is derivative. Moby-dick is derivative. Don quixote is derivative. Goethe is derivative. Shakespeare is derivative. Chaucer is derivative. The bible is derivative. Homer is derivative. Everything originates from something. Everything draws influence from something. Originality doesn't and has never mattered. Originality is simply a cope for your inability to write well and think deeply.

>MACBETH
>Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo: down!
>Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls. And thy hair,
>Thou other gold-bound brow, is like the first.
>A third is like the former. Filthy hags!
>Why do you show me this? A fourth! Start, eyes!
>What, will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?
>Another yet! A seventh! I'll see no more:
>And yet the eighth appears, who bears a glass
>Which shows me many more; and some I see
>That two-fold balls and treble scepters carry:
>Horrible sight! Now, I see, 'tis true;
>For the blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon me,
>And points at them for his.
Can any other english author match the sheer amount of envy, guilt, and anger expressed in this passage?

>No: just the face of a man who contrived somehow to swagger even on horse-- a man so far as anyone (including the father who was to give him a daughter in marriage) knew either had no past at all or did not dare reveal it-- a man who rode into town out of nowhere with a horse and two pistols and a herd of wild beasts that he had hunted down singlehanded because he was stronger in fear than even they were in whatever heathen place he had fled from, and that french architect who looked like he had been hunted down and caught in turn by the negros-- a man who fled here and hid, concealed himself behind respectability, behind that hundred miles of land which he took from a tribe of ignorant Indians, nobody knows how, and a house the size of a courthouse where he lived for three years without a window or door or bedstead in it and still called it Sutpen's Hundred as if it hand been a king's grant in unbroken perpeturity from his great grandfather-- a home, position: a wife and family which, being necessary to concealment, he accepted along with the rest of responsibility as he would have accepted the necessary discomfort and even pain of the briers and thorns in a thicket if the thicket could have given him the protection he sought.

>>19004900
>riffle
>ready's his arm

>>19009283
I see we are responding with pictures of ourselves now. Very well

>>18993398
>The topic is supposed to be Descartes, as advertised.

Colonialism based

>>18968189
came here to post this

>>18728317
you in a few days (picrel)

>The Illiad: Prose edition
>The Divine Comedy: Modern English Prose
>Paradise Lost: Prose edition

>theoryfag who willingly went 250,000 in debt to the federal government trying to explain Marxist theory to a group of people
>fastidiously contextualising all important ideas as well as to offer helpful insight on contributions from other Marxist thinkers since Engels and Marx; taking immense care to address and avoid reactionary pitfalls and criticisms
>causally dropping the names of members of the Frankfurt School and the Post-Structuralists with flawless pronunciation
>pic related barges into discussion, immediately disregards all of theoryfag’s obsessively sound arguments
>”YEAH COMMUNISM SOUNDS GOOD ON PAPER BUT IT COULD NEVER WORK BECAUSE OF HUMAN NATURE AND BECAUSE SOME ‘ANIMALS ARE MORE EQAUL THAN OTHERS’”
>refuses to elaborate
>leaves
>to theoryfag’s dismay he notices the women all nodding in quiet agreement with pic related’s “argument” despite theoryfag going to great lengths to repeatedly centre the important contributions to Marxist thought by feminist theorists

>>18554036
libgen