/lit/ - Literature

>>18775450
what an absolute brainlet take. Le Carre didn't deal in absolutes, but went behind the curtain and showed the downright grey nature of the world (neoliberalism) and showed the follies of nationalism and "logical" thinking of bureaucracy. Just because he criticized Trump and Brexit as the charades they were doesn't mean he was a"libcuck"

>>11522474

>>11336725
I'm not surprised that this is the kind of thing that wets Grimes' Mason Dixon

>>10908064
>I'm only 19
>midst of an existential crisis for like 3 years and I see no end
>I'm a raging alcoholic

>>10877477
>We only exist to procreate.
Stopped reading right there

>>10801315
>it's a real war even if no one declares war
>hurr was a rul war cuz we wuz mujahideens n shieet

>>10665097
>He believes he has witnessed a natural event that violates the laws of nature.

>>10274129
>Yeah.

I'll let my detective friends know they've got a free patsy in you, then.

>>10208785
>Empathy is a fiction

t. materialist sociopath who couldn't appreciate a clean toilet

>>10110128
"That (Sartre is shit) is my point" and "Sartre had the integrity to reject it (the Nobel)" are both independent clauses, buttboy

>>10091160
The concept of "punishment" carries the implication of desert. If you treat someone as your opponent, in dealing with them you risk "harm." If you treat someone as your master, in dealing with them you risk "punishment." It is only "punishment" if you expect it as a response to some "wrong" you feel guilty about. This is why you are a slave.

>About 3 billion years later I was born. That's it. That's literally all there is to life.

Holy fuck, go back to r/rickandmory

>>9199501
>died without any recognition

As if you can take "recognition" with you into the nothingness of death

>>8605752

>>8554666
>Sound is more than superficial frequencies.

>>6962148
>thinking Kafka on the Shore was written by Kafka

>>6644784
And you think Rand is better than those

>>6443482
>She is probably more creative than you (even if her works are not top level), and when she reads a book it is almost safe to assume that she perceives more things and that her brain makes more associations and creative connotations than your brain. So let’s imagine that both you and her would read the same books over the course of one year and in the end would write about what you have read: she would probably show more sensibility and reading comprehension than you.

>>6432814
>Yudkowsky, an autodidact who never went past the eighth grade, is the author of a thousand-page online “fanfic” text called “Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality,” which recasts the original story in an attempt to explain Harry’s wizardry through the scientific method.
>“Polyamory/competitive govt parallel: more choice/competition yields more challenge, change, growth. Whatever lasts is tougher.”
>The two subjects of conversation were the superiority of entrepreneurship and the worthlessness of higher education
> numbed by the establishment.
>Yudkowsky reported that he was having a “visceral reaction” to what I’d said about great books. Nosek was visibly upset: in high school, in Illinois, he had failed an English class because the teacher had said that he couldn’t write.

>>6349594
>Kant
>Right about morality

>>5970393
>thinks mathematics is tautological

>>5946028
OH SHIT THERE IT IS