/lit/ - Literature

>>637474

> implying novels are just adult versions of Aesop's fables.

books that want to teach you a moral lesson are usually juvenile and moralistic pieces of trash.

fiction can explore questions and present new angles on problems, they don't necessarily care to teach you a lesson, OP's argument misses the point.

For example, look at Brothers Karamazov, they explore the implications of God's existence, if he doesn't exist everything is permitted. That is an interesting idea, but is it valid? It seems that it isn't. Look at extremists their will, apropos God's will, turns that idea on it's head. If God exists, then everything is permitted, all you have to do is submit that God's will = your will. Etc.

Good fiction doesn't just teach you a lesson or solve a problem, it explores how we frame questions, and how we approach problems, and tries to get us to ask the right questions, much like philosophy.

nice bewbs, have some more

in what sense is zizek a marxist? what's so great about marxism

> fuck modern books, I'm sticking to the classics

>>601980

I like the corniness. It's mythic.

Over? Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

17 cartons of books packed, 3 bookcases emptied. Probably another 15 to go (3 more bookcases).

This does not count the 3 cartons of books (never unpacked) in my girl's studio, 1 carton of dross & galleys in my studio and my computer manuals on the desk.

These motherfuckers are heavy.

I worked hard and I deserve a treat.