/lit/ - Literature

why read if you forget whatever profound thing you read anyway?

>>21878257
Apparently they are crustaceans. Do you think they taste like shrimp?

>>21051368
>men who identify themselves as women ARE women, chud
>politicians who identify themselves as leftists aren’t leftists though unless they conform to the specific definition of leftism my favorite podcast has

Why do so many translator re-translate works that already have fine translations?
Is it some sort of perfectionism that makes them unable to accept the old? Pride and the belief they could do better? Cowardice and fear of tackling something new? Some other option I haven’t considered? Financial reasons?
There are plenty of books not translated into English, yet instead of tackling them, translators just release new versions of the Bible, Homer, and Dante every few years. The Bible especially, regardless of your religious beliefs, we have a glut of modern English translations and no reason for any new ones at this point.

>Eeldrop and Appleplex rented two small rooms in a disreputable part of town. Here they sometimes came at nightfall, here they sometimes slept, and after they had slept, they cooked oatmeal and departed in the morning for destinations unknown to each other. They sometimes slept, more often they talked, or looked out of the window.
>They had chosen the rooms and the neighborhood with great care. There are evil neighborhoods of noise and evil neighborhoods of silence, and Eeldrop and Appleplex preferred the latter, as being the more evil.
Okay, what the hell was their problem?

>read modern theologians
>they’re all saying to believe Catholic teaching
“You can’t trust them, they’re all biased! Go back to the source!”
>read medieval Christians
>they’re all telling me to believe Catholic teaching
“You can’t trust them, they’re all biased! Go back to the source!”
>read the church fathers
>they’re all saying to believe Catholic teaching
“You can’t trust them, they’re all biased! Go back to the source!”
>read the New Testament
>it’s saying to believe Catholic teaching

>stop going on /lit/ for a few years
>come back in the past week or so
>it’s exponentially worse than it’s ever been
What the hell happened? Was I the one keeping this board stable the whole time?

>Christianity is actually just paganism
>Secularism is actually just Christianity
I’ve seen people unironically argue both these things. Like, the same people will argue these same things, sometimes in the same sentence. Why? What’s the point? It seems like just a way to appear smart by rearranging the meanings of terms