/lit/ - Literature

>>17044629
Is there any proof that masturbation helps with writing? Like, how much evidence is there, anecdotal or otherwise?

I'm writing a sci-fi story where country borders and empires have shifted heavily on the Earth over the passage of many centuries. Countries have come and gone, empires have risen and fallen, and history has marched on. However, there are still people of different races/ethnicities.

So the thing I've used to denote this is that I describe peoples' skin color. Instead of calling someone "African" I say they have "dark skin." There's also "brown skin," "pale skin," "sallow skin," "ruddy skin," and so on.

I'm not going to cause a shitstorm doing this, am I? I've heard that there's some controversy about calling East Asians "sallow-skinned" because it's vaguely related to the old "Yellow" slur. But I want to find a decent way to differentiate my characters of East Asian descent to my characters whose roots are elsewhere, from centuries ago. In particular, I have a hapa character who I make sure to describe as sallow-skinned, to distinguish her from her friend, who is of Northern European descent and whom I describe as pale-skinned.

Basically, I'm not gonna cause a shitstorm doing this, am I?

I have an undergrad degree in Great Texts of the Western Tradition. Does that count?

Is there really anything wrong with dating any woman who's over your country's age of consent?

Everybody under the sun knows that we start finding people attractive when they're teenagers. This isn't pedo shit, this is the fact that, particularly for women, all their secondary sex characteristics kick in between 12 and 15, and only get accentuated more, usually, later into their teens. Is there really anything wrong with finding teenagers sexually attractive?

And, for that matter, as long as you're obeying the law, and it's a consensual relationship, why can't you date someone younger than you? Even substantially younger? Even marrying one of them. As long as it's a sincere, honest relationship, and you have no intention of hurting anyone, is there really a problem with it?

I don't consider myself to be very smart, or at least I consider myself to be kind of an autist who doesn't appreciate nuance. But even to me, it's clear as day what threads actually are /lit/ related and what threads are off-topic bait meant to shitpost and drag down the board's quality. Even some more political threads can feel very /lit/-related, because they are interested in ideas and the books that elucidate those ideas. They seem very different from the low-effort shitposting that goes on a lot on this board. And if I, an autist, can see this, why can't the mods?

Can somebody please explain to me why anyone would ever bother watching a "BookTuber"? Why on earth would you ever waste your precious time watching a video about a book, when you could just be reading the book, instead?

I mean, unless you're just a dumb coomer and the attractive girls who make these videos are your fap material. But isn't that kind of pathetic, too? There's actual erotica out there, you know. And most of these girls are actually pretty underwhelming.

We had a thread like this literally hours ago. How come I was the only one in both threads to mention epilepsy? Epilepsy is /lit/ as fuck, tons of famous people had it and it shows up in poems and novels and plays.

Actually now that I'm thinking about it, is there any book or epic poem or something like that that has anything like the absolutely batshit "everything comes together spectacularly and horribly" ending that End of Evangelion has?

I guess it doesn't have to be on some big universe-spanning metaphysical scale. Maybe it can be on a smaller scale, a scale of interpersonal and familial relationships. But does any great work of literature equal End of Evangelion's sense of "Everything comes together and the ending breaks your brain"?

What are you supposed to call tropes other than "tropes"? I realize that word has been ruined by the retards at TVTropes but there has to be a good word out there for ideas and concepts repeated in multiple works of art.

>>15233568
But useful in what way? What, exactly, are you looking for? A new literary movement? A movement in philosophy? In aesthetics? That would require actual artists and geniuses, and there's no greater guarantee you'll find them here on /lit/ than you would on Twitter. What, precisely, do you expect this "wave" to produce, and what does /lit/ have to do with it? Beyond simply discussing it, of course.

Is it even possible for a book or a short story to convey the "feeling" that slice-of-life anime does? That sense that you're kind of trapped in a moment in time, and small things matter a lot because there are no big things that really exist to give trouble?

What am I to make of the fact that I have frequently, repeatedly been mistaken for a woman online? As in, when I post on forums and message boards, including here on 4chan, over the years I have more than once been accused of being female. What does it mean to "post like a woman"? Especially because I definitely don't do the "Tee hee, I'm a girl online" thing, because I am actually not a girl at all.

>>14245273
But what on Earth can Nietzsche know about Jesus apart from what's in the Gospels and Paul's epistles? Nietzsche suffers from being caught up in the 19th Century's desire to hunt around for a "historical Jesus" apart from the Biblical account. But there really IS no other account. Josephus mentions Jesus but even he doesn't go into detail about him. You kind of have to base what we know about Jesus on the New Testament. You've got to take it or leave it.

Does the Bible ever explain why God exists? If not, why does He?

Why does God exist? Does He know why He exists?

>>14170702
>book

If I write a book with a longer protagonist, but make them a female character, will women believe that, or would they scoff at the notion that women could ever just live alone day in and day out only talking to like, mailmen who delivered her amazon packages.

Now I don't actually know anything about philosophy, but I remember my middle school English teacher telling us the Sartre quote "Hell is other people" and reading about that line's meaning, and the plot of No Exit, I feel there are many parallels to Evangelion, especially the spiel about the different versions of the self that exist and one of the main themes of the show being the hedgehog's dilemma. The fact that instrumentality is the breakdown of all people's AT fields, which just represent the barriers that people place around themselves, and everyone gets merged as one in a kind of paradise, free from the worldly "hell" of other people. Then Shinji is able to realize the value in relationships despite the pain that they inevitably bring, love himself, and is able to pull himself out of instrumentality. And we learn that anyone can exit instrumentality if they are able to picture themselves in their hearts. Just thoughts from a layperson, feel free to call me retarded. But these kinds of ideas are interesting to me, clearly there are works of literature that deal with these themes so I was just wondering what would be some good entry level reading to do.

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>>10117217
>greentexting present tense statements when they should be *like this*

>>8761842
I found the old language difficult to read. The catholic versions are pretty comfy.