/lit/ - Literature

Just bought Hegel's Phenenomenology of Spirit. No, I've never read a book before. Yes, this is my first interaction with Philosophy ever.

I write exclusively in vim

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/celebritynews/11694297/William-Shakespeares-jokes-are-just-not-funny-Sir-Richard-Eyre-admits.html

tl;dr: A patrician guy says that Shakespeare isn't funny.

PRETENTIOUS TRYHARDS BTFO

>I've read your file
>graduated high school at 11, top in your class at Harvard, holds doctorates or honorary doctorates from every ivy league university, semester abroad at Cambridge, head of your class at the Sonic Fighting Academy, nine tours of duty in Vietnam, six in Iraq, deployed in Nicaragua, Green Beret, Marine, Navy SEAL, stormed the beach at Normandy, practically invented counter-terrorism ops, Silver Star, Purple Heart, Congressional Medal of Freedom, winner of three AVN awards, Olympic alternate in archery, water polo, Badminton, BMX and Freestyle skiing, TIME man of the year in 1982, 1990 and 2002, finalist on Iron Chef season 3.
>So tell me, how did you end up in a shit hole like this...?

>all these entry readers not reading outside the west

>>6514410
>>6514414

>implying Europe is the hub of knowledge

>>6498939

>T-THE EGYPTIANS WEREN'T BLACK I SWEAR THEY WERE WHITE!

Even if that's true, you condemn the people you're projecting on them anyways.

>>6489030
>/sci/

>tfw you're a socialist darwinist so you're fine with whoever wins this ideological struggle and just enjoy the show

>>5888479
>implying I don't read for escapism
>implying the fact that life is out there isn't the reason I stay inside with my memetrees