/lit/ - Literature

>>17357239
>Butterfly has nothing of interest to add to the conversation.
Typical. Not him. Don't know.
He was a pacifist, catholic priest, and classical liberal, make of that what you will.

>Read Gore Vidal
>There's no gore

>read theory
theory of what?

Theory of what?

>>15690374
What is the value of labour? Marx's argument in Wage Labour and Capital is the value of labour is the labour required to maintain and re-create labour which doesn't strike me as a satisfying answer. In one sense he's saying that the value of labour is labour which is just an infinite regress. In another he's saying that the value of labour is its demand for goods which would mean he's agreeing with the guy he's arguing against.

How is the value of labour transformed into price? There's a lot to go into with this question and unlike the average Marxist discussion it's actually interesting.

>>15588907
This guy blocked me on twitter but I've never interacted with him in my life and barely even use twitter.

Why should I even care about racism?

>Ending of the book is spoiled on page 1

>Book doesn't have characters

>400-page-long book takes days to finish
>2-hour-long movie takes 2 hours
Why even read?

>book has 0 pages

Is christianity the right religion? I feel like Judaism is more correct than it even though I was born into a family that was not that very religious.

Why do people books?

>>11068383

>historical fiction
Why?

what should i read

Are there any arguments for nihilism that don't appeal to value judgments or normative claims?

>love reading about politics
>hate reading about economics
Any book recommendations?

I don't visit /lit/ often. I only know one of your meme terms and that's pseud. I don't know any meme authors besides Pynchon. Something I have observed both on and off 4chan is the eternal psued's proclivity for reading Lovecraft. What is it with psueds and Lovecraft?

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/magazine/the-strange-case-of-anna-stubblefield.html

>ethics

>in underground train station
>staircase is split in to two paths, one for people going down, another for people going up
>had just got off a train and saw the up staircase was crowded and slow and the down half had no one on it
>go up the down staircase
>think to myself if what I'm doing is immoral: "What about Kant's categorical imperative? If everyone chose to go up this staircase like me then nobody could get down."
>realise that if everybody used the underground like me then it would be too crowded to use
>realise that if I take two steps forward and then always took two steps forward I'd walk in to a wall
>if I take two steps forward now and everyone take two steps forward right now then people may fall off cliffs or walk in to others
>if I take two steps forward at my exact age and everyone else does it then they may walk in to stuff or be inconvenienced
>if everyone had coffee like Kant we'd have to use all the farmland to grow coffee and then we'd all starve

And that's how I BTFO respected philosophy after ten seconds of thought.

Why is transcendenal idealism so fucking gay

Hello /lit/
Can you help me?
I am trying to find the books that I read when I was a boy to read them again.
My memory somehow works in a retarded way as I remember whole scenes from many books but forget which ones come from which.

So here is #1 that comes into mind
>man receives some letter(envelope) that contained 3 lemon seeds if I recall correctly
>it meant something among the lines of the KKK or some other dangerous group wanting to inquire about your health...
>man goes crazy on paranoia, stays days locked inside his room
>goes sometimes into town and comes home incredibly drunk
>he seems to be going insane
>nephew or son seems to be worried about him
>he is finally found dead face down in a puddle
>whether he was killed by someone is left to the reader's imaginations

>to intelligent for pseud trash
>to dumb for the real shit
What do I read? Fiction or some other waste of time?