/lit/ - Literature

>>13430056
>Virginia woolf
>philosopher/inventor

>>13424079
AHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAAHAHA

>>13174991
>I'm a writer

>>12762938
You guys are getting really creative with these Wittgenstein anecdotes by these random people.

>>11308761
>fuck poetry
>I want anime version Illiad[sic] and Oddysey[sic]

>>11291270
>he didn't start with the Greeks
>he never knew about the most noble Form, that which we want for itself alone
>he doesn't know how it makes eudaimonia
>he dismisses historical evidence entirely, then calls *me* unserious
Read Plato, then Plotinus, then Aquinas. You're welcome.

>Flying Spaghetti Monster
how much grace has the FSM brought into the world? and if you're merely plugging in the name Flying Spaghetti Monster into God's position on the mercy seat, you realize you have changed nothing at all and are yourself a theist?

>>11049479
>the substance of the matter
I started by criticizing Searle's bad analogy of the chinese room. It's useful for saying what machine intelligence ISN'T, but it has obviously led kissless handholdless nerds down the wrong paths.

>us grown ups
>us grown ups
>us grown ups

>>10916091
>he presented the one thing that would tip the battle in his favor
>tip

this is fucking awful

>the translation is actually worse
>it even has less content than earlier translations

>>10851788

>>7981583
>pure black and white justice in LOTR
>cliched fantasy elements when it invented them
Wait. Are you judging your childhood love of the book by your adult experience with the movie? Because they're two different things. But a fantasy quest where the party splits and tries to kill each other, and the Chosen One gets right up to the credits screen and fails, that's not cliche.

I bet you don't even read Kalevala in Finnish, loser.