/lit/ - Literature

What is /lit/'s sense of humor?
Is there such thing as good comedy, anyways?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex9Jj7DuTas

Hey guys
I didn't know if I should ask you or /tv/ about this but you're clearly the superior kind. Anyway it's about a short screenplay I'm writing :
So I'd like to adapt to a real world situation whatever we called internet humor, observing the discrepancy between the two worlds.
Should I go with heavy references, maybe meta, or something totally absurd ?

>>2984377
I seriously hope this post to be a joke.

>>2984422
And this is how history is actually written.

>>2984460
Classic.

Do you involve yourself in academia because you feel your opinions are worthy of anyone's time or because you dislike physical labour?

>>2903873
What is wrong with Palahniuk and Orwell?

Because it's popular and mainstream. And fantasy. How horrifying can it get?

I like physical books because I have an obsession for them bordering on fetishistic. Not afraid to admit that.

How come most of English/Liberal arts majors fail at math?

I for one know many people who chose to do more science/math but were very interested in philosophy and literature too and used to excel at these courses, but as far as I know most people who majored in liberal arts failed at math in high school and now have a bad image of science. Whenever basic math is involved in a conversation one of them will typically say "ewww this is why I'm not a math major" or shit like that.

Furthermore, I've noticed that people who are good at math have many stereotypes attached to them: they're seen as autists, complete nerds, anti-social fucks, etc. And that's not true. I've worked with teachers and met many students in schools and universities and I swear I couldn't tell who was studying/teaching what based solely on how "nerdy" they looked. Yes, there are autistic nerds. However, I've met over a hundred "science majors" (or equivalents in my country) and only three were kinda weird - and not even autistic. Liberal arts don't have these stereotypes.

TL;DR: Science/math majors are interested in philosophy, Liberal art majors suck at math or hate it, discuss.

>>2316380
Nah, man. English major all the way

The Adventures of Huck Finn Mark Twain
No Country For Old Men Cormac McCarthy
The Road Cormac Mcarthy
The Turn of The Screw – Henry James
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym – Edgar Allen Poe
Wiseblood – Flannery O’Connor
The Violent Bear It Away – Flannery O’Connor
The Heart of Darkness – Joesph Conrad
Beowulf - ?
Utopia – Sir Thomas More
The Portrait of Lady – Henry James
O Pioneers! – Willa Cather
Black Boy – Richard Wright
Blood Meridian – Cormac Mfer McCarthy
The Marrow of Tradition – Charles Chesnutt
Sir Gawain and The Green Night - ?
The House of Mirth – Edith Wharton
Maggie: Girl of the Streets – Stephen Crane
King Lear - Shakespeare
Hamlet - Shakespeare
Comedy of The Errors- Shakespeare
Richard The III- Shakespeare
Much Ado About Nothing- Shakespeare
The Castle of Otranto- Horace Walpole
Titus Andronicus- Shakespeare
Othello- Shakespeare- Shakespeare
Measure for Measure- Shakespeare
The Winter’s Tale- Shakespeare
The Tempest- Shakespeare
Sister Carrie – Theodore Dreiser
Willa Cather - My Antonia

currently reading:
Frank Norris - McTeague
Homer - Iliad (Lattimore translation)

obligatory

/lit/ isn't archived anymore.
/lit/ is the only board that isn't being currently archived, with the exception of /b/.

1. Literature
2. Music
3. Mathematics
4. Physics
5. Other sciences
6. Art
7. business
8. film
9. Athletics (da fuck?)
10. Philosophy (Lower if possible)

>"[My agent] said 'You have a murder mystery up there, you have a horror book up there, you have all kinds of genres on the bestseller shelf, why not Terry Pratchett's book?' And the response was 'We don't let them out of the science fiction section'"
— Terry Pratchett, interview with Mark Lawson.

>"If poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world, science-fiction writers are its court jesters. We are Wise Fools who can leap, caper, utter prophecies, and scratch ourselves in public. We can play with big ideas because the garish motley of our pulp origins makes us seem harmless. Very few feel obliged to take us seriously, yet our ideas permeate the culture, bubbling along invisibly, like background radiation."
— Bruce Sterling, in the introduction to William Gibson's Burning Chrome

So, what's with sci-fi and fantasy being dismissed instantly by critics and academics? Of course there's a lot of garbage in both genres, but we can say the same about pretty everything. Why do people think fantasy is elves&dragons for escapist manchildren and sci-fi is aliens and spaceships for autistic nerds?

Please don't post stereotypes, we all know ranting anonymously about people in the internet feels cool but I want constructive criticism.

have you ever fucked a student?

I got caught masturbating at school once. I was 15 I think. I was whacking it to the girl in front. She was wearing really tight leggings, and had a nice big pump ass that was poking over the edge of the seat and I could see it at the back of the chair and it made me hard as hell.
Professor called me up to the front of the class to solve a bunch of equations right when I was about to bust. I told him I couldn't, and he insisted. Point of no return.
Stood up awkwardly just as the globby jets of spunk started flying. Over my desk, all down the girl's back and hair and over the guy sitting next to me when he tried to push me away.
I tripped over my pants (which were round my feet by this point), and fell to the floor. My legs kind of kicked me in a circle and I knocked over chairs and desks and everybody was screaming and I was still cumming. A girl slipped over in a little glob of it and the people behind me were freaking out, throwing books and chairs at me.
The whole class just erupted, people started hitting each other, somebody tackled the teacher, a desk got thrown out the window.
The principal called the police and my parents got a hefty fine and I got community service.

Everyone in this thread is a fucking faggot for not getting what OP meant.

So you are rubbing your penis thinking of Ayn Rand when a djinn comes out of your balls. He says you have been blessed by the God of Literature and you may choose one of the following:

A. You may revive one writer/philosopher of your choice and chat with him or having write an extra book (if you revived a writer) before he dies for good.

B. Pick any language. You may now read anything in this language as if it were your mother tongue.

C. You now read 6 times as fast.

D. You have enough inspiration to write that ONE book you've always wanted to write. Your writing style is permanently improved too.

E. $5 000 000 in a special bank account, but you may only spend this in books/literature related items.

F. You may have sex with any book character of your choice.

However everything comes with a price, and the djinn tells you that you must sacrifice a /lit/ tripfag's life if you want to be granted one of these wishes. You may decide how painful the tripfag's death is, however: the longer, the more painful.

So, what do you choose and what tripfag do you kill?

why would the president need a shakespeare analyst?

lol get real