/lit/ - Literature

>>23103643
>you made no mention of only voting once.
Come on.

>>23041978
>The last popular literary novel in my mind is probably Blood Meridian.

>>22975090
Vollman's favorite book is Tale of Genji
Some nigger above learned Japanese
But somehow I'm the "weeb"

>>22848983

>>22844789
>The Second Apocalypse

There isn't a single epic moment in The Iliad.

>introduction by Neil Gayman
>introduction by Michael Chabon
>introduction by Jonathan Lethem
when will these kitschy merchants stop ruining my books with their inane, mindless introductions?

>engaging
>entertaining
>boring
>relatable

>includes a single map at the beginning of the book
>marketed as "illustrated edition"

>introduction by Neil Gayman
>introduction by Michael Chabon
>introduction by Jonathan Lethem
when will these kitschy merchants stop ruining my books with their inane, mindless introductions?

>introduction by Neil Gayman
>introduction by Michael Chabon
>introduction by Jonathan Lethem
when will these merchants stop ruining my books with their inane, mindless introductions?

Every philosophical claim falls into 1 of 5 categories:

1. Pointless language games
>Look at my made up mathy-larpy definition of knowledge/morality/existence or whatever ambiguous natural language term. Oh no, it doesn't work because of trivial counterexample. Repeat ad nauseam.

2. Making up unfalsifiable nonsense without real world applications
>Platonic realm of ideas, noumena, thing-in-itself etc

3. Dogmatism
>You morally OUGHT to behave like this ... because you just have to, okay?

4. Outright anti-intellectualism and blatant falsehoods
>Science is le wrong, logic is le wrong, there is no truth, there are infinitely many genders etc

5. Trivialities hiding behind unnecessarily verbose language
>Everything is happening in a social, economic and cultural context? Wow, that's so deep, we need to write 1000 pages about it.