/lit/ - Literature

>>20792404
I've literally never met a self-proclaimed communist who's read even 5% of Das Kapital.
It's either some very short second-hand analysis of the work, or just the commie manifesto

>At the age of 31, Melville was already half-done with the writing of Moby Dick

>>19957627
Every option that is't Add Book, Convert Book and Read Book is a waste of my fucking time.
Also the UI sucks, but that's for 99% of software nowadays, since it's all developed by trannies and other mental patients.

>>19390941
Replacing the default gender from male, as in the following sentence
> “The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of his world of ordered beauty." — Bertrand Russell
To female, as revised here
> “The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of [her] world of ordered beauty." — Bertrand Russell
Was something that started to get popular during the '90s from what I remember.
The basic idea behind it was that, assuming the male gender bolsters preconceived notions of what gender does this or that, it raises men to the status of "default", and it is patriarchal language (all progressive no-nos obviously); but if we assume the default gender is female, we are "radically" challenging the pre-concieved notions of our patriarchal society and encouraging woman to became, say, mathematicians, by removing the social barriers that says "this isn't what women do"; furthermore, there is no possible way you could hurt the male sex doing this because they have all the power.
Alternatively, some less radical progressive writers—who also cared about gender equility—would take extra care to write sentences like this:
> “The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of [his or her] world of ordered beauty." — Bertrand Russell
and for a time that was the perfered and happy middle ground that progressive types would take.
However, now with all the new genders, something like "his or her" is completely unacceptable because it assumes a gender binary and even "her" is considered bad in this way.
Sentences can pretty much only be written in this way now:
> “The pure mathematician, like the musician, is a free creator of [their] world of ordered beauty." — Bertrand Russell
But to answer your question, the reason "They" and it's derivatives were generally avoided was because "they" connotes plurality, and this generally sounded odd to most English speakers of a couple years ago, but the current and—for the foreseeable future—coming generations don't seem to have a problem with it.
That's how I understand it anyway, but then again I'm not a linguist so take what I said with a grain of salt.

>>19376090
Name one novel, one novelette, one short-story, one sketch and a periodical.

>>19186714
There is not a single good picture of Donna Tartt to jerk off to

I wish I could just plug in headphones and learn everything.
Any books that handle this subject?

>>18455486
Where I'm from this is a question mark.

>see the name Ockham
>decide to make a retarded joke and say:
>"is this where 'Ockham's razor' got its name from?
>realize that indeed it is

>In the modern world, it is, quite literally and unironically, impossible to live by the teachings of Jesus in the New Testament without severely incapacitating my way of life and coming off as an aloof prude to everyone I interact with.
How do I reconcile with this fact?