/lit/ - Literature

>>16528826
What is your hope with all this? If it is power—power for power’s sake, or power to some other end?
Where do you see yourself by the end?

>>16506432
The Symposium
When it gets to Socrates rehearsing Diotima’s speech—that through love/Eros you might, just might catch a glimpse of something like “truth” or “beauty,” that through loving another you might find that one window into it all, the window that redeems everything, that mends a broken life, that justifies your existence as a stranger in need of care in this world—when i got to this part i could not help but break down and cry.
Certainly different people have different reactions to texts, and i do not pretend that there is any guarantee or anything you’ll love it. But i do hope you find in it all that i did; i hope you find outside it even more.

>>16491192
There’s also the impulse of the rich that you totally, totally ignore: the idea that i would own a library, a gym, a theater, even—all in my own house. Convenience? Sure.
But a lot of it is that we don’t have to run into filth like you. I could tell you: go to a library, educate yourself. What does that involve for you? Don’t know, don’t care. For me, i need to walk downstairs. Do you get the difference now?

Jesus, plebs are really gonna pleb.

>>16486455
Yes.
That is exactly what I have built/am building.

>>16481227
I put the “boss” in “bossuet,” bitch.