/lit/ - Literature

>>16688005
>author uses whole phrases in Latin he has composed himself which are completely impenetrable to his reader unless they knows Latin

>>16641429
>using an ablative for direction towards

>>16610554
>Putting Nabokov on the same level as Plato and Einstein

>>16606900
>>16606923
>two IQ pseuds fighting over who has the highest 'intellect number'
Read Taleb

>>16529655
>He believes in a magic quantified 'intelligence' number

>>16374436
The founder of the forum for hyper rational atheists apparently also wrote this

>Listen to me very closely, you idiot. YOU DO NOT THINK IN SUFFICIENT DETAIL ABOUT SUPERINTELLIGENCES CONSIDERING WHETHER OR NOT TO BLACKMAIL YOU. THAT IS THE ONLY POSSIBLE THING WHICH GIVES THEM A MOTIVE TO FOLLOW THROUGH ON THE BLACKMAIL. You have to be really clever to come up with a genuinely dangerous thought. I am disheartened that people can be clever enough to do that and not clever enough to do the obvious thing and KEEP THEIR IDIOT MOUTHS SHUT about it, because it is much more important to sound intelligent when talking to your friends. This post was STUPID.

>>16246082
I actually can't believe I'm reading this kek
>Roman poetry was nothing like the way you think of poetry today... it was a mastery of language that we are still studying because we can't make sense of how the fuck it does what it does

>an anon asks if he can actually read it in the original form

>N-no... b-but being able to read latin would help me to understand that knowing latin won't help to understand the great works of latin (???), p-plus modern translators still aren't even all in agreement with the meaning and alliterations
infinite cope, literal retard
best way to spot a pseud is when you get a paragraph of bullshit and cope when they're asked a simple, direct question

>>16246082
I actually can't believe I'm reading this kek
>Roman poetry was nothing like the way you think of poetry today... it was a mastery of language that we are still studying because we can't make sense of how the fuck it does what it does
>an anon asks if he can actually read it in the original form
>N-no... b-but being able to read latin would help me to understand that knowing latin won't help to understand the great works of latin (???), p-plus modern translators still aren't even all in agreement with the meaning and alliterations
infinite cope, literal retard

>People actually measure their consciousness by a magic quantified intelligence number
>They feel personally challenged when a man who is commonly thought to be stupid gets given high smart number
Modernity truly is incredible

>>16189523
When it's not even 30 minutes into the first episode and they get to the 'In Jove's fair image' poem

>>14920408
>Well... there's no proof so to say for it but bruh, real life it's just commonly accepted bro, heh if you just talk to people (which I totally do and am not just a light-fearing troglodyte)

>>14774480
Well played anon, very [ ].

>plays

>>11189933

>hating the jhanas unironically