/lit/ - Literature

Hobbes believed that all people should bow before the monarch and serve him as a part of his body. The central metaphor of "Leviathan" was the idea that the King should not even have to use his arms and legs. When he wants to reach out and grab something, e.g. a sword or a staff, the people should amass around the sword and hold it on his behalf, out of love for him. This gives the people purpose, without which they would cease to function as a body and descend into anarchy.

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>mfw "thomas pynchon" is just the pen name used by the collective author that is /lit/ and its predecessors