/lit/ - Literature

>>4773213
are you okay friend

>>4684033
>Meditations

>>4254106
>the level of a mind that thinks we should stop fighting over "isms"
yeah fuck big pharma and fuck the people ('sheeple') who play their games

>>4247821
>still clearly in the material conditions of the postmodern era
>postmodern literature is over
>totally superficial analysis of an obviously postmodern style

>he doesn't believe in historical materialism

>>4067903
>the only reason shit like this exists is because our quality of life allows for frivolous pursuits because we're not worried about food or barbarians at our gates
ancient Greeks fagged it up all the time and they never stopped worrying about being eradicated
we could talk about how heterosexism is largely a result of Christian sexual ethics that have very little to do with survival but it's cool if you want to shitpost instead

Call me a pleb or whatever but I just can't fathom why anyone would willingly want to read philosophy books. They had us reading Socrates and Kant and Marx and Nietzsche and Descartes and whatever the fuck else all through highschool and it was so goddamn excruciating having to read these cunts' rhetorical manifestos as if some hypothetical diatribe about shadows on a wall is supposed to provoke some kind of life-changing response.

>>2423025
Why do people read reviews before making expensive purchases?

>>2406870
>universally accessible
that just means stupid people like it

>reading the exscuisite novelisation of superman 4 special edition where its crossed with the halo book
>get to the part superchief uses his warthog to chase elite luthor
>realise that grease from my ass has caused the mints i keep between my buttocks to become soiled
>cute girl sits next to me
>Wow, I've never seen a superman crossed with halo so elegantly
>erm.....why the fuck are you reading my fucking book?
>Oh....well I didn't mean to...
>I'm sorry I shouldn't have snapped like that. Would you like a mint?
>anal grease drips of the tube of mints in my grasp
>oops, wait I think I have some other refreshments...
>girl is weeping in the corner
>bus driver turns around "YOU AGAIN!?!?!? I SWEAR IF YOU GOT ANY MORE ASS GREASE ON MY SEATS I'LL KILL YOU FUCKER
>my mini scooter unfolds itself
>"get on michael, I think you've angered the bus driver."
>Me and Kit turbo Boost out the sunroof

>Be Athiest
>Haven't read the bible since catholic school
>Decide to read it for fun
>God creates man and vegetation
>Finishes up passage. Then God creates man and vegetation again.
>The bible has contradicted itself and I'm not even past page one
>Chuck it back on my bookshelf, fuck this shit
>mfw

Even Bernard Marx could get laid. And his surrogate had alchohol in it.

What's your excuse?

>want to buy newest eragon

>College Lit course
>studying poetry starting with Sapphos
> Professor reads aloud "He’s equal with the Gods, that man"
>http://www.poetryintranslation.com/PITBR/Greek/Sappho.htm#_Toc76357049
>She asks the class to tell her what the poem was about
>First girl called on says it's about a girl dying
>Second girl elaborates that the "he" in the poem is a doctor watching over her as she's dying.
>The professor's faces and mine when this is happening.

This and people bitching over assigned books is why I hated community college.

>>1460160
>half of the girls I've been with cry regularly after sex

>>1343412
>>1343350

>Pynchon

>buy ebooks

>>1103495

>Television Pilot
>Publishing it

>>Misappropriating Eastern cultures as a replacement for desperately needed serious psychiatric treatment.

Hindufag here.

>>922400

>>865896
>He wouldn't have destroyed whole cultures.
Well, except for those Jews...
and the Gypsies, but nobody really talks about them.

>>857030
>McCarthy is probably the greatest currently living American author.

>>830577

>Ocarina of Time is just as much a masterpiece as Finnegan's Wake