/lit/ - Literature

>>2493287

>Holly was a bitch.

Exactly.

>>2031192

You're right, novellas are better.

>>2031196

the film started out promising but then it descended into shittyness and completely abandoned anything intellectually substancial about 20mins after that horrifically unfunny racist scene.

Read In Cold Blood, then. Or other voices, other rooms like fauve said.

Just don't forget to remind everybody who REALLY wrote mockingbird.

I'm the waifu /lit/ deserves

>>1778989

no

>>1771754
>>1771754

>>1760228

There is this thing called empathy.

I've found most people to possess it, and as long as they do we don't need religion.

Not that I rely on irration evolutionary impulses to maintain the order of society, rather I raise the importance of people up on their ability to create meaning of themselves.

Each individual is constantly constructing a universe for themselves which they themselves give meaning and value.

And that's the best we get if we are to preserve our intellectual integrity, and it's enough for me, sir.

>>1752615

The difference is that you either insult people or state your superiority over them invariably without any helpful deconstruction or meaningful evidence.

>>1752613

I'm many things, anon, but i'm not a troll.

d&e's name just reflects his postmodern dogmatism.

>>1741744

Accepting that the world is objectively meaningless means accepting that the world is fundamentally void of absolutes and thus we are free.

This allows you to invent a purpose to create happiness in your life while simultaneously acknowledging the objective absurdity of our existence.

This is how the individual typifies a universe which can be regarded as extremely valuable, not to society as you demand but to the individual himself.

>>1735990

Capote was many things to many people.