/lit/ - Literature

>>13661846
What was the moral of the story where Abraham tells Pharoah that his wife is his sister, Pharaoh wants to marry Abraham's wife, God giving Egypt plagues because of this, Pharoah finds out they're actually married, and then kicking them out of Egypt?

>>13574600

>>13574510
compelling point that I have not considered

Is there any reason for trans people to exist in SFF? If it's a fantasy story, you can cast a spell and boom, you're the cis gender of whatever you want to be with fully functioning genitals. If it's a science fiction story, why would society not have developed the technology to give trans women functioning vaginas/wombs/eggs and trans men functioning penises/sperm?

>>13371626
>study Dante
>"You see, it's imperative to understand the political situation of Italy at the time period"
>study Toni Morrison
>"WTF YOU SHOULDN'T TALK ABOUT POLITICS IN LITERATURE STOP VIRTUE SIGNALING REEEEEEEEE"

I just read the Tao Te Ching and I can't figure out how any of these threads connects in any way to Taoism and also the first google result when searching "space taoism" is a reddit thread.

>>12907490
>written traditions
white people
Arabs
Persians
Indians
Chinese
Japanese
>oral traditions
sub-saharan Africans
Native Americans
Polynesians/Oceanic people

How is worship of the written word equivalent to white supremacy?

>>12899106
>sixteen year old boys
Can one be arrested on the basis of 4chan posts? This is why I've never pretended to be a pedophile/racist on 4chan. Yes, only one of those is illegal, but still.

>>12688479
>forcibly kissed several women, never anything approaching rape
>has messed up approaches to relationships due to trauma of child molestation
>gets entire career destroyed
What did society mean by this?

Is love just selfishness? Do people feel love just because that person happens to fill a void in them? Do people even care about other people, or do they just care that other people care about them?

Why is someone saying
>I love you because you make me feel so good
a compliment? Isn't that pure selfishness? And does the same apply to friendship? True friendship is often achieved when the times are hard; for example in war. But wouldn't that just support the argument that people start feeling this way because the other person was useful to them, and feeling this way ensures that usefulness will stick around?

>>12603307
>>12603315
>I loved this guy's work, found out he was an abusive asshole, and disowned his entire body of work
>I refuse to acknowledge any of the reasons his works resonated with me in the first place
>the fact that this man's work captured my imagination despite being who he is doesn't make him a more complex person, and despite his own victims saying you should go ahead and read the books for their merits, I'm going to completely write off his whole work because he is irredeemably evil in my eyes

there are six books that i have started and am currently reading. does reading multiple books simultaneously hurt one's understanding of their content?

>"short story collection"
>all the stories involve the same characters and are arranged in chronological order

>>12480530

you mean to tell me that the celts weren't uncivilized savages that needed to be domesticated by the strong and disciplined romans?

>>12239337
Suppose I put an anime cover on my work of fiction to attract weeb readers. Would my prose actually have to change? Could I pass a perfectly Western novel with Western sensibilities as weeb material by just putting a weeb cover on it? What are the conventions of a weeb novel? Do I have to say every boy is feminine and cute?

What happen when book is read

Do you think man should overcome an obstacle in order to be respected by self and others? What defines a man?

>>11823362
what have your father done?

Who would you say led the most fulfilling life in history?

I'm not good enough to be a published writer so I gave up hope, but I want to reach out to people in some way. Would it be dishonest or pseud-like to popularize my poems through a Facebook page or an Instagram profile?

>>11228026
>Curse of knowledge
Shouldn't there be a little pulse of joy in knowing that there is someone who doesn't know as much as you? Wouldn't it also be helpful to the "noosphere" by at the very least pointing them in the right direction before ridiculing them, since you could bring another unique individual to the discussion?

Wait, isn't nationalism just a form of patriotism? What's wrong with taking pride in ones nation? I'm confused.
t. brainlet