/lit/ - Literature

>>23100573
>he thinks you're subhuman
Do you realise how little this means coming from someone who's probably not white?

>>22945756
Seven posts until some /pol/tard escaped his containment board and started screeching about DA JOOOOOOOS. Not even double digits. You used to be able to discuss literature here.

>>22851127
>calls them films instead of movies

>>22830495
>And specifically, I liked Dostoevsky the most.
you don't. you don't get into dostoevsky. an obsession with dostoevsky is the mark of an essentially adolescent mind. he's earth shattering between the ages of 13 and 19, and then he ought to be laid aside

>>22792521
jesus fucking christ, few things exemplify "/lit/ doesn't read" than a thread talking about contemporary poetry. all of you assholes are pontificating and proclaiming and bemoaning and wailing and you can't even name five contemporary poets. you can't even name three magazines that only publish poetry. none of you know what you're fucking talking about. all you do is bitch about le heckin' form and whine about le based rhyme because the last poem you read was in high school. you'll accept experimentation in prose, sure -- you'll swallow a plotless novel, or a story written from five different points of view, a play that jumps around in time, an essay that intermixes photography with prose with art, but the second a poem doesn't rhyme, the very fucking second a poem isn't a tidy little sonnet or ghazal or villanelle, it's the end of the fucking world and poetry's fallen so far and it's all shit and how could the tradition end like this. jesus christ none of you know what the fuck you're talking about. nobody in this thread knows what they're talking about, except for >>22797339 . when it comes to poetry /lit/ is beyond retarded. irredeemably moronic. I just don't get it. I don't understand why everyone worships novels that break from the realist tradition but shit themselves when a poem does it. you are all fucking idiots. except for that one guy. go to poetryfoundation.org and don't come back until you've read five hundred poems

>>22717296
>which, by the way, most would hardly say qualifies as "love" at all, only in the tortured way Spinoza chooses to redefine it
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>REEEEE SPINOZA'S SLOPPY CAUSE SAYS LOVE TWICE IN DIFFERENT WAYS
no, he's separating two related yet distinct ideas (with his characteristic rigor, subtlety, and clarity) and stressing that the ideas he's talking about aren't the same as we normally use them
>REEEEE THAT'S JUST HIM TORTUOUSLY REDEFINING HIS TERMS
make up your mind, anon. is it that spinoza is a sloppy thinker who can't be fucked to define his terms, or is it that spinoza defines his terms too much? can't have it both ways

>>22585707
>maybe the world is not made of popsicle sticks
>oh yeah? assemble the popsicle sticks into a new shape then

>>22566774
>18 years old
>claims favorite book is the phenomenology of spirit
eventually you'll grow out of pretending to understand things to look smart