/lit/ - Literature

>>16907042
I can see the lady on the left's left nipple! Is this intentional?!

>>15130087
>Tfw you realize all Zionists are Jewish

>>14936443
holy fucking cringe
Is that what r/chapotraphouse told you people who hate on women are like?
for the love of god, please go back

>>14782487
I can't believe your that much of a retard. Look at the fucking example you posted in your image.

The verb "denied" IS IN THE PAST-TENSE IN BOTH EXAMPLES. Tense is not what makes something passive or active---in grammar, in "prose", in any sense.

i never had an interest in anything outside history and politics, this gradually translated into an interest in philosophy and I will probably choose it as a major next year because I'm really just not interested in anything else.

i am nothing impressive, but quite frankly none of my teachers or professors ever have been.

so i thougjt i can perhaps work on attaining a masters and maybe teach at a highschool private or public while working on something more.

dunno man, growing up is a shit.

>>14749091
>Is there a *physically* insane now?

Hello there, I couldn't help but overhearing. Perhaps I can be of some assistance. Our word insane comes both in form and sense from the latin 'insanus'---'in', a negating prefix, and 'sanus', meaning healthy. Juvenal famoulsy used the the phrase, "mens sana in corpore sano," using the term for both body and mind. Somewhere along the line, with the increasing division in the western thought between mind and body, this question came to vex early psychologists: could one have a sane body and an insane mind? Perhaps this question doesnt vex us, as most scientists point to the mind as an outcome of physiological processes not at all distinct from the body proper. For example, it's well noted that anxiety causes physiological affects which can lead to chronic conditions such as hypertension, or the emerging research into the connection between gut health and a sense of psychological well-being. And matters of psychological dependence whether on food or drugs are linked to a genetic disposition. Heck, even exercise addiction is considered a real problem in our body-obsessed culture, causing both physical and mental stress on its practitioners. So perhaps we've returned to something of a more holistic concept of mody-mind health similar to the Romans. Though, I wonder if there isn't something to be said for the potential mental wellbeing if not outright excellence in certain minds that dwell within bodies racked with trauma or illness---such as Stephen Hawking or those motivational speaker paralympians. And perhaps we've all met a meticulously well-cared for body managed by a sociopathic intelligence... huh, maybe it isn't so clear cut after all. Ah, but look at the time, I'm must be going... does anyone know which train takes me to midtown?

>>14739304
B-but he said he was just relating it to his current situation, you aren't telling me... this thread was made as some sort of code?
Do I need to abandon ship now before it's too late?

>>12791777

>>11222433

Bazinga.

>be frogposting on /lit/
>regular anon posts just like pynchon
>ask him "are you my favorite meme tommy pinecone?"
>he posts "yse" and gets quads with a pepe I've never seen before
>MFW

>>6152620
>translation
>2015
>espero que no lo hace

hey guys. /mu/ kid here. i've been lurking for a few weeks and seen a lot about infinite jest. so i read it. and i don't fucking get it. help? pls

>>5380021

>claim to be an empiricist
>make a priori claims

>>4994130
>>4994225

Let's say you are a writer looking for someone to critique your writing but no one you know irl reads much. What do you do?

A lady at work who writes "mystery stories, just like as a bit of a hobby" told me of some internet forum devoted to writers critiquing each others writing, but when I went to check it out it was all genre fiction or sappy memoir shit.

Is there somewhere a writer with literary pretensions could go to get an honest critique and maybe participate in critiquing others?

>>4205010
damn, there's another landwhale in that picture, >mfw

Bump for the purpose of justice.

Nigger.

I'm sitting an exam tomorrow and I could use some advice:

For this particular exam there's an essay section wherein they list a series of famous quotes with a similar theme, and then ask you to develop a piece of writing in response to one or more. The topic can be anything; love, politics, anything.
The response is then judged based on it's quality (organization, presentation, etc.) and relevance to the theme.

Now I'm pretty dense. I got through high-school parroting the observations and opinions of others, but here I'm familiar with neither the topics nor pertaining quotes.
Any advice on spontaneous essay writing?