/lit/ - Literature

Bright and utopian.
Detractors will call me a delusional optimist, a fool that ignores all the trends but hear me out on this:
Every genius was dismissed because they were ahead of their time, they were not in synch with their zeitgeist.
We are due for a paradigm shift very soon, one that will change of people think of reality, but this shift in mindset will only become obvious to 99.99% of humanity in hindsight.

>language without tenses

>white man bad africa suck because white man

>>17358592
>Call me Ismael

>Pale Fire
>25

>Dieskau

Blind sexism and ad hominem aside, is there a well documented and concrete reason why female writers are so inferior to male writers?

>mods dont nuke, please

>this has got to count as some strange exercise in communal non linear storytelling

Why yes, John Green is my favorite philosopher. How could you tell?

>Why yes, I am a bugman, how could you tell?

>>15203087

>>15198837
>I mean that's the next step right
Next step into the abyss as a logical conclusion of your false position.

>>15175641
>If I am in error, if I am in sin, if I believe a lie, please brother, out of charity, and for the greater glory of God, please deliver me. Show me my error. Remove the scales from my eyes. What kind of kindness is it to gloat over my damnation? Christ prayed for his crucifiers as they killed him, pleading on account of their ignorance. If I am ignorant, please pray for me. If I am ignorant, please lift me up out of my misery. Please, I implore you, show me the same mercy God has shown me so that we may both be with him in heaven.

why yes, between us reading-roomèd elite fellows...i do in fact live alone in a single bedroom 500 square foot apartment...i suppose one could say the bedroom, living room, and bathroom are my personal reading paradises, heh!

>>15050409
Melville himself said that the book was explictly made as three in one: the accounts of the whale, the romance of the pequod, and the cetology sections. Each section is central to the book and it's message, to ignore this is to ignore the struggles and pains of the artist
>outdated
Melville is the first of the modernist tradition, he devouted every part of his being to his novel, he nearly died while writing it, every word he wrote has it's purpose. Please, inform yourself on the life of an artist before judging their works

There is an entry in Richard Burbage's diary concerning a particular incident in his life.

Richard Burbage was an Elizabethan Actor who is primarily famous for having been the lead actor in Shakespeare's Globe Theatre. Although actors were not considered part of high society in those days, they were still subject to the laws of mass hysteria, and therefore would commonly have a following of love-stricken groupies to attend to them.

Mr. Burbage had come into the company of the "Wife of a citizen," meaning someone of reasonably high social class. She had made arrangments with him to come to her house on a day that her husband was not to be home so that they might have an assignation. This woman was a bit on the romantic side, as followers of actors commonly are, and wished to devise a sort of code that would let her know when he had arrived. They agreed that, upon reaching her house, he would have the servants bring her the message "Richard III has arrived," because this event had occured at the time when "Richard III" was running at the Globe. Our friend Shakespeare overheard this conversation, primarily because the Globe served as living quarters for him most of the time, and decided that it would be fun to play a joke. Shakespeare arrived at the woman's house before Burbage and sent the message that "Richard III has arrived." Although we cannot make any inferences about the character of said woman, suffice it to say that she was equally impressed with Shakespeare as she had been with Burbage. When Burbage arrived Shakespeare was in the act with the woman; Burbage sent up the message "Richard III has arrived," and the servant brought it up. Supposedly this would have been a rather akward situation for the servant, who was ordered to return another message: "William the Conqueror came before Richard III"

This story is backed up by a few professors and seems to be true. After all, would you make up a story about how another man beat you to it?

>Unbeknownst

>Simonides, being asked on one occasion...whether it was better to be a man of genius or rich, replied "Rich, for men of genius are found at the court of the rich."

>>13666223
I'm a man, I want it all.