/lit/ - Literature

>show me evidence for your claim

>Old Nobodaddy up aloft farted & belchd & coughd
>And said I love hanging & drawing & quartering
>Every bit as well as war & slaughtering.

>>21678049
>I said prove you have a personality
you tip your fedora

>Qua

>>21453927
>reject modernity…return to tradition

>reject modernity…embrace tradition

>The masses are incapable of creativity.

>>20159278
>I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well the judicious world is resolved to list me in that number. I conceive therefore, as to the business of being profound, that it is with writers as with wells; a person with good eyes may see to the bottom of the deepest, provided any water be there; and often, when there is nothing in the world at the bottom, besides dryness and dirt, though it be but a yard and half under ground, it shall pass however for wondrous deep, upon no wiser a reason than because it is wondrous dark.

>20149842
I swear...here's your (you)

>God it set them yappin on the slope like dogs and he turns to us, the judge, with that smile of his, and he says: Gentlemen. That was all he said. He had the pistols stuck in his belt at the back and he drew them one in each hand and he is as either-handed as a spider, he can write with both hands at a time and I've seen him do it; and he commenced to kill Indians.

>>19892444
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>>19776471
Because I want to read other peoples take on our progression from complete autism to chilling out (I will also take people satirizing the manners of their day).
>>19776374
>Reddit is that way you fucking retard. Eloquence and social ritual =/ autism
Pretty sure most redditors wish they lived in the autistic times (picrel).
>>19776405
Really? I was never interested in that meme book but I might actually give it a try now. Could you elaborate on how exactly it relates to what I'm talking about without spoiling the important stuff?
>19776367
No

>Whatever exists without my knowledge, exists without my consent.

>>19323047

>People are so hollow inside that even if someone wrote the ultimate masterpiece they'd treat it like yet another entertainment snack. They're the proverbial swine who trample the pearls you'd throw at them.

>>18767431
Would you say you have become... enlightened?

>>18742471
>Nice try though

>>18573155
>I'm an enlightened ubermensch of higher status and culture - heh, you lowly creature, you can not simply imagine by greatness...
>CIA
Go back to twitter, you retarded tankie

>>18566614
>t.

>>18473353
>I only read university textbooks in maths and physics, not for university but because nothings else interests me and I also hate popsci

>>17617153
I prefer Rithmomachia. It's what they play in Thomas More's Utopia for recreation.

>>17523587
>reading makes me smarter

>besides, the only answer is accelerationism. we are already too deep in the hole, let's dig to the center and find what hellbeasts shall be revealed.

What’s the best short story you’ve ever read? Why do you think it’s the best? I need something quick and easy to read.