/lit/ - Literature

>I shitpost therefore I contribute

>>19044659

>OP drowning in his own conceit

>>18992640
>pretending to summarize all of history in 500 pages

joke thread

>>18875815
>only reading one part of a trilogy

>>18782483
Fucking hell

>>18641691
>I post on a literature board despite being too dumb to use a dictionary

>>18530681
Jesus Christ man, pull yourself together

>>18504417
Why do incels always have to call out other people's libido, and out themselves as impotent masturbation addicts?

>>18484822
>The Iliad

>>18261606
I think that is a decently good veiw of the phenomenon
>>18261580
going off of this. To me, as a general thing, men tends to have a broader, but less intense sense of empathy.
a lot if times going
>yah, i kinda get that different view, or that scenario, but i still am going to do x anyways.
while women tend to have a more narrow, but more intimate focus, going either
>god, I totally ubderstand that and jive so muchwith it
or
>I dont get that at all, makes no sense to me.

Like my adult sister is really into animals, and hates when they are hurt, but the moment she sees a spider or a rat, she yells for me to kill it without a second thought. While im more mellow on both ends, like i will kill a rabbit if its eating my shit, kinda sad that it died, but i care about my shit more, and ill kill the spider, but I will also feel a little sad about it. not enough to not do it, but enough hesitation for the idea of killing itself that its distinctly different to my sisters immediate negative nonempathetic reaction.

>>17762708
>effeminate boy face and not-tapering shoulders

>>17685710
i do sympathize conceptually with these people though. you do need some people who are completely against the state for a spirit of the benifit of the doubt.

its like when everyone felt oh so smart calling out flat earthers even though its not exactly a genius take to think the world is round, and completely missing the core logical conceit. the earth may be flat, but then again, the world outside your immediate perception might not be real either. being more logical the statement should be “i think its most likely the world is round”, but due to the nature of language and communication we tend to say something is when the likelyhood is in a high enough percentile.

but people tend not to think like this in terms of probability, and simply go to yes/no, true/absurd, right/wrong, rather than extremely likely and extremely unlikely.

which is not appealing to logic, but denomination and abstract categorization and working back from an accepted predetermined thesis (even if it is the most likely one, like 99.9999999%)

>met a very lit guy at uni
>says he's into Pynchon, DFW, and has a deep library with the greeks
>I ask to see his shelf
>"I don't have a shelf I usually just listen to audiobooks while I'm working, I think the last time I read something was Atlas Shrugged in high school"

There really is no hope

>>17223658
>I'm going to start with the Greeks
>by reading a book that was written by an American in the 1900s

>>16558413
>As a new writer, I'm planning a fantasy story
NGMI

>>15647207
>people who were in the 5th grade in 2010 post here
wtf

>>15568470
Stop posting this in every thread.

>waiting for Megan Boyle to update liveblog 2020

>>12664604
>probably fucked women too
>probably

>being this much of a pleb

>>11045909
Rousseau is the worst out of the three