/lit/ - Literature

>he doesn't eat Pringles while reading Gene Wolfe

what are they anagrams of

zimzum by gordon lish. all the sentences are perfect and it flows perfectly. its the most profoundly stupid thing ive read and every paragrapgh makes me go pic related. and no i wont stop shilling it untill someone reads it!

Im knee deep in hermetic texts and i have no idea what the difference between the soul and the spirit is

I attended a 2 year college program for a trade ticket. It cost me $15,000 and I landed a job making 95k out of school.

And I still feel like I got ripped off. I don't know how some of you 150k+ indebted fuckers who got degrees in useless shit can wake up in the mornings

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>Also plenty of straight men fuck men

Go back to /fit/

>When the history of Philosophy gets to Aquinas, Augustine and co.
Who gives a fuck about those Church leader faggots. Straight from Hellenistic philosophy to Decartes for me!

>uses words of Latin etymology when there are Saxon alternatives

>>16331931
How can you say that it isn’t the best sci-fi book of all time if you haven’t even read it? What would you chose?

>want to read author
>see a compilation of his work on sale
>find out he was a literal faggot
should I spend money on faggot authors?

What's up with the anime spam? they are so autistic about their board rules yet they spam every other board.

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>things start to get interesting
>novel changes P.O.Vs

>The Bible
>King James Version

>>16189920
>how is a rock not the perfect form of a tree

this board hasn't changed. I'll check back again in another few years

>For all intensive purposes

>>16149829
This is /lit/. People read here. That shit you posted can pass unchallenged easily on /pol/... but not here. Maybe go back there or try reading sometime before posting on this board.

>>15997219
>hivemind

>author was a leftist

>there is no word in French for "death", they use "mort" which also means "dead"
>there is no word in French for "nobody", they use "personne" which also means "person"
>there is no word in French for "ninety", they use "quatre-vingt-dix" which means "four [times] twenty [plus] ten"
>they add "pas" to every negative sentence for whatever reason, it's like a nervous tic that got out of hand

>best stories

Books on living with idiots?

>>15736719
>Jesus didn't establish the CC
Matthew 16:18
>And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.
John 21:16-17
>16 He said to him a second time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” He said to him, “Yes, Lord; you know that I love you.” He said to him, “Tend my sheep.” 17 He said to him the third time, “Simon, son of John, do you love me?” Peter was grieved because he said to him the third time, “Do you love me?” and he said to him, “Lord, you know everything; you know that I love you.” Jesus said to him, “Feed my sheep.

Vicar of Christ also doesn't mean God on Earth. It means earthly representative of Christ.

>there is no word in French for "death", they use "mort" which also means "dead"
>there is no word in French for "nobody", they use "personne" which also means "person"
>there is no word in French for "eighty", they use "quatre-vingt-dix" which means "four [times] twenty [plus] ten"
>they add "pas" to every negative sentence for whatever reason, it's like a nervous tic that got out of hand

>novel has le quirky post-modern drawings
Why do hacks do this? Looking at faggots like Vonnegut and Bolaño