/lit/ - Literature

>>18190601
>They should make a movie or better yet a show
Very sofisticated bait.

>>16949739
yes we have the freedom to say it
but the question is, should we?
yes

>>16836106
what does this have to do with logic?
How can logic even be credited as an author?
Logic is a field of study.
who's that white kid on OPs pic?

>>16731183
No no no no, barber shops truly hold power in our society, Anon. Read on Deleuze and the flows that hair holds.

>>16586354
thanks anon

Uhum * ting ting ting ting *

are there any? i usually check the reviews when considering downloading a new book, but of course shit like goodreads is unrealiable. 4chims rec threads are great but i'd like more detail.
whats the best site with book reviews?

>>15373388
>>15380475
>>15384391
> all these deeply affected people
i dropped it 1/3 through because it was whiny and boringly obvious
what does that say about me

Title. Aphorisms and Wisdom Literature. Starting off with the Ancient Near East.

>Gilgamesh

> ‘Gilgamesh, where are you hurrying to? You will never find that life for which you are looking.When the gods created man they allotted to him death, but life they retained in their own keeping. As for you, Gilgamesh,
fill your belly with good things; day and night, night and day, dance and be merry, feast and rejoice. Let your clothes be fresh, bathe yourself in water, cherish the little child that holds your hand, and make your wife happy in your embrace; for this too is the lot of man.'

>These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members. Society is a joint stock company in which the members agree for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It [That is, conformity.] loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.

>Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist. He who would gather immortal palms must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness. Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of our own mind. Absolve you to yourself, and you shall have the suffrage of the world. I remember an answer which when quite young I was prompted to make to a valued adviser who was wont to importune me with the dear old doctrines of the church. On my saying, What have I to do with the sacredness of traditions, if I live wholly from within? my friend suggested--'But these impulses may be from below, not from above.' I replied, 'They do not seem to me to be such; but if I am the devil's child, I will live them from the devil.' No law can be sacred to me but that of my nature. Good and bad are but names very readily transferable to that or this; the only right is what is after my constitution, the only wrong what is against it. A man is to carry himself in the presence of all opposition as if everything were titular and ephemeral but he. I am ashamed to think how easily we capitulate to badges and names, to large societies and dead institutions. Every decent an well-spoken individual affects and sways me more than is right. I ought to go upright and vital, and speak the rude truth in all ways.

Damn, why didn't you guys tell me Transcendentalism was so based?

Any good books about trains?

>>14530921
*tink tink tink*

not OP but /lit/ is trying to maintain a standard. no low effort posts, please.

>had a dream last night in which I recalled the word inveterate

Thanks brain!

>>12427136
based

Is translated poetry even worth reading? Seems like it takes away 90% of the appeal.

>Im a thinker
>Im

What's the worst book you've ever read and what exactly did you not like about it?

>ITS ANOTHER CRAZED FEMINISTS FIGHT AGAINST THEIR VERY NATURE THREAD

YIKES
I THINK GOD MADE IT VERY CLEAR IN THE SCRIPTURES
STAY BREADPILLED BROTHERS AND SISTERS

>>11948093
shut the fuck up faggot