/lit/ - Literature

I hate forewords. I don't want some dickhead's chatgpt tier input. why do they exist, just to annoy me?

>Thoughsoever
>Thoughbeit

>Earth has been ravaged by global warming
>traditional guns still clearly superior but they use lasers because... they just do, ok??
>characters reference literature and history only up until 1950 even though it's 2772

>>22251776
>>22251779

>author doesn't use oxford comma
Dropped.

meanwhile plato:
>To know or tell the origin of the other divinities is beyond us, and we must accept the traditions of the men of old time who affirm themselves to be the offspring of the Gods. that is what they say, and they must surely have known their own ancestors. How can we doubt the word of the children of the Gods? Although they give no probable or certain proofs, still, as they declare that they are speaking of what took place in their own family, we must conform to custom and believe them.
so this is the power of philosophy huh?

>>19034586
>Without God everything is permissible
>Hehe it's ok to diddle kids if God says so

Do you guys really re-read all these books that often that you need to keep them on shelves? Or is it all just one big consoomer show?

>he doesnt read books from the past 20 years because none of them carry with them enough social credit yet
>he only reads "classics" out of some misguided attempt to seem smart
>he buys all his books and never uses a library because he thinks owning things will give him more of an identity
>he owns dozens of books that he has never read

>>18583610
>you’ll constantly feel threatened by her intelligence and well-roundedness.

>>18385216
>Kultur and Zivilisation
>glorified satyr groping whores and grasping for words in the wine-soaked parlor rooms of the polis
>Faustian scholar's quest for the spirit of Genius to redeem the empty husk of Knowledge for its Own Sake

>finally get around to reading the bible
>Genesis was actually pretty good
>can't wait to read Exodus since I'm sure it'll be even better

>read Exodus
>it fucking sucks
Hollywood lied to me.

>>17316745
> Thomas Midgley, Jr. (1889–1944) was an American engineer and chemist who contracted polio at age 51, leaving him severely disabled. He devised an elaborate system of ropes and pulleys to help others lift him from bed.
> He became accidentally entangled in the ropes and died of strangulation at the age of 55.