/lit/ - Literature

>>22434758
>And literature is the blood that kept the common man's faith in the British Empire.
????
You honestly think Victorian street uchins were taught Shakespeare and Milton? They were too busy chimney-sweeping and cleaning dung off the streets lol. The common man in the Empire didn't care about Julius Caesar's assassination or Satan's POV of Genesis. They read serialised soap operas that criticised wealthy industrialists, softcore pornography, sensational thrillers and detective stories. Classics have always been the domain of the wealthy upper class.

>>17837909
Paperbacks are for poors and boors.

Hardcover every time.

>>13930315
>having a job is considered a privilege
The absolute state of poorfags

>all those paperbacks with wear and tear

>>10351422
You shut your whore mouth

>>10181024
>this is your brain on state school

>>9989689
>>9989863
>Subscription to economist because my Yuropean immigrant father remembered how great it was in the 60s
>not great, but better than fucking Newsweek or w/e, read mostly for good "outside America" news
>gradual decline in quality over the ten years I am subscribed
>at least their shitty opinions are still presented alongside accurate and objective presentations of fact, mostly
>2015 suddenly quality nosedives, notice they are actively misrepresenting and fudging campaign coverage
>literally a step removed from CNN
>subscription runs out in February 2017, don't renew, why pay for shit opinions AND no more objective fact-based coverage?
>months pass, read a few online articles to see them shitting themselves over Trump
>suddenly discover that the Economist "attained" its first ever female editor in 2015

And that is what it took to destroy a publication that lasted for over a century and a half, that survived the potato famine, the Battle for Britain, decolonization, The Troubles, and the Cold War.

Womameme writers, not even once.

>>8891208
>didn't read as a kid

>>8193440
Legs are the only acceptable preference.

>>7546040
/int/. Also, lurk moar.

>>7535754
ew go away

>>7493313
here's a better one imo

>>7479188
>patrician
>too poor to buy books

I don't think so, son.

>>7448147
>obvious poorfag complaining about taxes
>mfw

>>7430966
>I am "accomplished". I make $12k a month
>mfw poor people brag about making 12k a month

>>7404884
>having to sell time for money
>not living off your sizeable estate

whats up with all the poor people on /lit/

>>6632873
>reading abridged plebeian shit

>>6545133
>sparknotes for Sound and Fury
TOP KEK PLEBEIAN

>UKIP voters on /lit/

>>5904196
Stop trying to speak for us, you modernist faggot.

>>5901966
yeah bacuse my bantz is totally in line with your amateur sociological observation about aesthetical choices of yuppies, like, totally