/lit/ - Literature

>>12946836
>actually hadn't considered just checking it out though desu lol

>>12037454

>On April 30, 1921, in honor of the 600th anniversary of Dante's death, Pope Benedict XV promulgated an encyclical named In praeclara summorum, calling him one "of the many celebrated geniuses of whom the Catholic faith can boast" and the "pride and glory of humanity".

How can smelly old nerds in bedsheets even compete?

>>10886536
Definitely not.

>>10886621
No. But you should read him anyway.

left to read:
Idylls of the King
Troilus and Criseyde
the Tristan stories

really can't be arsed to give a shit about european romances and courtly love though. the idea of an undying love that motivates heroic deeds has been absolutely crushed out of me by living in the 21st century first world.

>>10221679
Name 1 narrative historian before Herodotus
>mfw you try to name hecataeus of miletus

Thanks for wishing me luck tho. Already got that high-pass, but it's always nice to be supported

>>10061331
>unironic /pol/ posters on /lit/
Fuck off to your safe space. Books are made to explore the human condition, not pander to your ideological resentments

Congratulations, you've read a few books, anon. You can finally articulate all those ideas that still aren't any good. But, they're almost good, right? If you just keep pushing past that little block that refuses to let any truth pour into the spoken/written word, then you will finally have a truly, original thought. Unfortunately, it seems that every time you finagle by that mischievous prick and start writing/speaking, you come back to what you have written, and it has lost the very thing you worked so hard to give it. All that is left of your precious enlightenment is a skeleton of clauses, of an unnatural pressure to have even the most petty of legacies. You could always write fortunes; people get excited about reading those. In fact, there is a person out there who has shown more enthusiasm about cracking open that twisted, Asian waver, than they ever have about anything you have ever said to them; and yes, it's probably one of those people with whom you were really drunk and honest; and yes, they remember, but they don't want that pressure to realize what you laid on their psyche that evening. I read a fortune the other day, anon. It read, "7 8 14 15 32 48." You want to know why? Because it was blank on the other side.

>>6526807
Because it's correct?

>>6515915
>original latin

>11 syllables per line
>33 syllables per tercet
>33 cantos per cantica canto 1 doesn't count as part of Inferno, it's an independent introduction
>14233 lines
>takes place in 1300
Was Dante the master of dubs?

>>6402423
Ich studiere Phillosophie, niemand braucht meine Matrikelnummer dringender als ich, glaub' mir.
Bei uns sitzen vielleicht dreißig Leute im Hörsaal, wenn überhaupt.

>mfw people actually read translations of it instead of just learning italian

Who would you want to guide you through hell?

>>5964994
Yup.

Had a friend mention "we should rebel", thought she was talking about wealth inequality and corporations and all that, but instead she was talking about feminism and racism.

>Be me
>Meet some 8/10 hipster qt at the library
>Talk about favourite books
>Go on a few dates
>Eventually bang
>In post coitus ecstasy we discuss the notion of divinity
>She's not a Neoplatonist
>She didn't start with greeks
>She doesn't even worship the forms
>mfw

>reading translated poetry

>>5909691
>she doesn't do that anymore
Doesn't really matter.
I wouldn't date a cannibal either, even if she promises me not to bite off my dick in my sleep 'cause she doesn't do that anymore.

>Caccianli i ciel per non esser men belli,
>né lo profondo inferno li riceve
srsly dante

>>5848562

>reading an autistic self-insert fanfic

http://youtu.be/l-XCEEM5SgM

>translation

Do you think another Great Awakening is in the making?

>>5201168

>The Bell Jar
>Amelie
>Lana Del Ray

u a grill?