/lit/ - Literature

>>12820999
>woman "author"

>>12815035
>stephen king
>camus

>girl comes up to me in bookstore
>asks if I've read book I'm holding before
>no
>says she just got it and asks if she could read with me
what the fuck even is that do people really do that shit? just sit and read together?
>say sure whatever, kind of suspicious
>comes over today
>she forgets the book

>500+ page book has no chapters or breaks in the text to give you a good place to stop
Why do they do this?

>a modern Shakespearian tragedy

>>12693917
>Do the Sam Hyde thing

>first day of philosophy class
>“You all know the saying ‘you are entitled to your own opinion’?”
>“Well I’m here to tell you’re NOT!”
>“You’re only entitled to your own opinion if you can philosophically justify it. That’s what this class is going to be about.”
Wow, so I have to philosophically justify my subjective opinion that chocolate tastes good? Damn no wonder philosophy is a joke.

>turn the other cheek
Why do people always 'forget' to mention that this had a completely different meaning in antiquity?

>At the time of Jesus, says Wink, striking backhand a person deemed to be of lower socioeconomic class was a means of asserting authority and dominance. If the persecuted person "turned the other cheek," the discipliner was faced with a dilemma: The left hand was used for unclean purposes, so a back-hand strike on the opposite cheek would not be performed. An alternative would be a slap with the open hand as a challenge or to punch the person, but this was seen as a statement of equality. Thus, by turning the other cheek, the persecuted was demanding equality.

>>12623581
holy fuck what are these fucking words everything has an ism after it

>character has faith

>>12598510
>Oh my god. You have no idea who I am.

>>12586791
>jarvis cocker
>lennon/mccartney
>nick cave
fucking brainlet

i'm not a marxist, a christian or a feminist anymore
but i'm not a capitalist either
>mfw

>Please use at least 6 sources well cited in your essay

>>12414223
>>12414266
>>12414303
>REEEE I DON'T LIEK THIS
>why?
>REEEEEEEE IT DOESN'T MAKE SENSE REEEEEE
>what are you trying to say though anon? what is your critique
>REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE THE ABSOLUTE STATE OF REEEEEEEE

>/tv/ is talking about books again

>Omg I love to read too, here let me recommend you some shitty ass book like the Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck or The Secret
I hate unsolicited recommendations from normies

>>12275065
>ideological level MUST be transcended
>Jewess

>>12255106
whatever. have it your way...

>author writes an exceedingly long introduction on how they decided to write the book
Why do they do this? Why not Keep it to one page?

>>12193577
>there are as many sexes as there are assemblages

>someone offers the protagonist a book
>"Sorry, I don't read." said protagonist

I was a senior in HS.

>Now the rest of the acts of _____, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?