/lit/ - Literature

>>20703583
20 pages in ancient greek

>>20030955
>Posting basedjaks will not make the Bible less shitty.

>>18223637
If I am an figment of your imagination, you are a sick fuck.

>>17483517
And the mines are still closed, lmao

>Edmond Kirsch, a billionaire philanthropist, computer scientist and futurist, as well as a strident atheist, attends a meeting in Catalonia with Roman Catholic Bishop Antonio Valdespino, Jewish Rabbi Yehuda Köves, and Muslim Imam Syed al-Fadl, three members of the Parliament of the World's Religions. He informs them that he has made a revolutionary discovery that he plans to release to the public in a month. He has chosen to inform them before the masses out of supposed respect, despite his well-known hatred of organized religion which he blames for his mother's death. Horrified, the three learn that he is presenting it in three days' time, prompting Valdespino to send him a voicemail demanding that he stop or risk being discredited.

>Nonetheless, Kirsch goes along with his plan, hosting the exclusive event at the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao. Among those in attendance are Kirsch's former teacher, Robert Langdon, and the Guggenheim's curator Ambra Vidal, who helped organize the event, and is the fiancée of the future King of Spain, Prince Julián. Before the event, the guests receive a headset through which they communicate with a voice named Winston, which reveals to Langdon that it is actually an artificial intelligence invented by Kirsch. Winston leads Langdon to a private meeting with Kirsch, who reveals that his presentation will provide the answers to two of life's most important questions: "Where did we come from?" and "Where are we going?"

>During the presentation, which is being held in a special dome made to look like an open-air meadow and broadcast worldwide, Kirsch, after a prologue featuring a recording of a lecture by Langdon, reveals that his intention is to end the age of religion and usher in an age of science. Before the revelation, Kirsch is shot and killed by Luis Ávila, a former naval admiral who lost his faith following the deaths of his family in a bombing, only to be introduced to and join the controversial Palmarian Catholic Church. Ávila was commissioned by someone named the Regent, claiming to be with the church, who told Ávila that the bomber was a follower of Kirsch. Ávila is later revealed to having already killed al-Fadl and Köves respectively.

DESU sounds kino.

>>16952357
yeah yeah anon
Still probably best to just start by reading the book and posting about it on 4chan,

Schedule can develop organically over time?

>>16645346
>he's not an analytic historicist and just asserts historicisms and starts revolutions without bothering to check their validity

>>16612872

>>16576366
>waist

>>16572320
Actually, the very notion of 'occupation' is an inherently yt and thus inherently racist concept. Checkmate settler

>>16556898
>God once said let there be light

All you have to do to be known in today's literary scene is to write a doorstep postmodern/maximalist/hysterical realist novel with a faux-deep unrelated title that lends to interpretation, as well as a few (2-3) shorter works (could be all novellas). It helps if you're foreign or quirky. I just gave you the recipe to entering the big boy conversation. It's up to you to make it happen.

>mfw always push patrician /lit/ on customers at the bookstore at which I work, and make everything sound more exciting and pleb-friendly than it really is

Only got one complaint (it was for recommending Austerlitz to a "history nerd" who thought it was boring and sucked)

Everything is material.
Everything can be explained scientifically.
God is a stupid fairytale for babies.
Deal with it, philosofags.

>>15362659
>Colledge
I think the system would be a scam for you, at least

>Implying reality is possible without God

George or T. S.?
Modernism or post-?
Jane Austen or Charlotte Brontë?
Camus or Sartre?
Proust or Joyce?
Knausgaard or Ferrante?
Jacques Derrida or Judith Butler?
Hamlet or A Midsummer Night’s Dream?
Bram Stoker or Mary Shelley?
Tracey Emin or Jeff Koons?
Toni Morrison or Philip Roth?
Ursula K. Le Guin or Philip K. Dick?
King LearorThe Tempest?
Jack Kerouac or James Baldwin?
Virginia Woolf or Emily Dickinson?
Lord of the RingsorGame of Thrones?
Gabriel García Márquez or Angela Carter?
Agatha Christie or Arthur Conan Doyle?
Beyoncé or Bob Dylan?

>>14985378
If pain's not bad, why not hit yourself in the dick with a hammer?

All books are a waste of time. You are wasting your life away by reading instead of engaging in meaningful social activities.

>tfw I've never read any Buddhist or Hindu texts but still achieved meditative Euphoria on my fourth try while just laying down and focusing beyond myself
Why yes, I am the Buddha.

>>14554985
I think you mean bawdy.

>>14554870
*dualistic

>>14554936
Shut the fuck up faggot, I've never once been successfully bullied simply because of my naturally extroverted charisma, height and good looks- though that has made many jealous.

>be me
>read the entirety of the Greeks, skim the Romans, the essentials of the middle ages, learnt German, read Schopenhauer, all of the pre-Kant reading(including Descartes) and Kant all before I was 18
>fiction too
>currently 22 and learning Latin
Yeah I know, I'm a genius, but that's just us Entps. Oh and did I mention I have a bustling social life with ravishing good looks and a height of 6 ft 2?

>art being for the context of the political