/lit/ - Literature

>What's the most profound sense of optimism you've encountered?
When I was in my late teens I lived with my whole family, my parents were still relatively healthy and active (in their 40s at the time), all my my siblings were getting older and we were all becoming very good friends and in general we all had great relationships with each other, I had a part time job (disposable income) and I was doing pretty good in school. I remember having this overwhelming feeling of contentedness with how my life was, but also feeling optimistic because I had my whole life ahead of me; but I also remember thinking that it was all going to end soon, too: my parents got older and more feeble, siblings got older and moved away and started their own lives, responsibilities began to pile up, etc etc. But thinking back through all the times I've ever felt optimistic, I would say that I only felt like that whenever it seemed like my general life situation, or something relating to my general life situation, was going to improve: whenever I felt like there were going to be big changes in my life for the better, I felt optimistic: I rarely felt specifically 'optimistic' about smaller things, probably because (for me at least) the word carries a lot more weight and significance and doesn't really apply to smaller things (I can feel 'excited' or 'anxious' about smaller things, but in order to feel 'optimistic' it has to be something much bigger, if that makes sense).

>>13515357
>This is one benefit of using an e-reader. Just highlight a word and you'll get the definition right away.

Didn't know that.
Guess it's time to buy an e-reader. It'll save so much time.
Thanks.

>>12690160
Pretty much this. This is why twitter is such trash. Pic Related is an excellent piece of art...and is non-political

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>I'm just going to keep posting until I get a recommendation /lit/

>>12158079
>Are you forreal?
Yes, I am "forreal" you cunt.
>Obviously you are bitter because of some experience
Just disappointed in what women of modernity have to offer men as partners or mothers.
>but you must know that
I know a couple of three things. For one, you're a worthless cunt. For two, that gash between your legs is a good predictor to your worth in this society. For three, someone should fuck start your head.

Is there a book or website where I can read great poets' essays and writings on poetry? Or books like Paul Fussell's Poetic Meter and Poetic Form, by which I mean to the point and not fluffed up (like A Poetry Handbook and Rhyme's Reason are).

>>11696657
No. Animals aren't sentient and God allows us to eat them. Abortion is killing a baby with a soul that will become sentient

>>11594635

Cry more faggot.
This is our territory now.
Either play along, or we'll rape all your holes
and cut your throat. Just to leave you in the gutter.

>>11554248

Not particularly.
Thanks for the (you) though.

>>11473160

I very much respect Peterson, but I can assure you that his meteoric rise was either catalyzed by a third party or sheer chance. Why? He has little to no grasp of how marketing and design drive consumer trends (Examples: his book design, his misunderstanding what drives YouTube viewership, his sub-par website design, his marginalized view of self-promotion). I believe in his message; but he's approaching it so inefficiently it makes me question his self-awareness.

t. branding and creative strategy innovation professional

My school made us read "Night" in 8th grade.
My English/Literature teacher (jewish middle aged woman) was so moved by the book that she would have students recite the chapters read on assignment the previous night.
My very good friend at the time was asked to read the part about the Nazis using babies as bayonet practice as well as thrown into the air for shooting practice. He was laughing so hard at that part that he literally couldn't finish the sentence after. I of course joined in the laughter, baffled by the sheer gall of the Jew, and his unabashed and shameless ability to distort the truth to literal comical levels. I mean; if you're going to lie, at least make it believable. He of course was sent to the principal, you could hear him laughing the entire way down the hall, and was reprimanded and suspended for hurting the Jewish feelings of our frumpy teacher.

I did however like the realism of the book's ending. Specifically the part at the end where after the Jews are liberated from the camps and they come back on trains and as soon as they get off the train a dozen or so Jews fight tooth and bloody nail for some loose change on the ground. Not THAT is believable. It would've been much more effective propaganda over the long term if the rest of the book was that grounded in reality to be honest.

Overall, I'll give it 3.5/5 Jewish Tricks.
Best I can do.