/lit/ - Literature

>dad walks into room
>randomly starts looking at the books on my bookshelf
>sees my copy of the Iliad, points to the name "Homer" and says "Look, the Simpsons."
>keeps looking
>How's that pronounced "René Gee-nun?"
>keeps looking
>"Okay I'm lost. Phenomenumenology? That word does nothing for me."
>"It's hard to explain, dad."
>"The word spirit makes it ominous,"
>keeps looking
>"All's quiet on the Western Front sucks"
>keeps looking
>Who's this Hermann Hesse guy and why do you have four of his books?
>keeps looking
>pulls out Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung et al
>filps through it looking for pictures
>there are very few
>noticed that he stopped and stared one of a naked fertility goddess for a bit
>"But why symbols? That has nothing to do with psychology."
>sits there and flips through the book for another 10 or so minutes before we leave