/lit/ - Literature

>>2406286
That's not remotely close to any one of their arguments.

>>2406287
I would be glad to know what your objections to their arguments are.

>>1986849
>>1986841
So I herd you leik facialabuse.com. But seriously though, this is a gentleman's board, and I put the site in spoilers for a reason. You have been warned.

>>1943673
You noticed it too, huh? It must be because it's summertime. When everyone is in school, nobody wants to think about lit. When school is out, lit is on everyone's mind. Weird.

>>1916597
Yes, that's why Hitchens doesn't even bother to make a closing statement, right? He was so far ahead that he didn't need to do jack shit to win, right? And I'm sure the bottle of vodka he slunk off to after the debate ended was in celebration of his glorious victory, kinda like when basketball players open bottles of champagne when they win the championship, right? Right?

>mfw he just let's the two men kill him at the quarry

>>1084615

>John had been a straight-A student until he enrolled in English writing. The assignment was an “opinion” piece and the required theme was “traditional marriage”. John is a Southern Baptist and he felt it was his duty to give his honest opinion and explain how it was grounded in his faith. The professor was annoyed that John claimed the support of the Bible for his views, scribbling in the margin, “Which Bible would that be?” On the very same page, John’s phrase, “Christians who read the Bible,” provoked the same retort, “Would that be the Aramaic Bible, the Greek Bible, or the Hebrew Bible?” (What could the point of this be? Did the professor want John to imagine that while the Greek text might support his view of traditional marriage, the Aramaic version did not?) The paper was rejected as a “sermon” and given an F, with the words “I reject your dogmatism” written at the bottom by way of explanation.

>Thereafter, John could never get better than a C for papers without any marked errors or corrections. When he asked for a reason why yet another grade was so poor, he was told that it was inappropriate to quote C.S. Lewis in work for an English class because he was “a pastor”. (Lewis, of course, was actually an English professor at the University of Cambridge. Perhaps it was wrong to quote Lewis simply because he had said something recognisably Christian). Eventually, John complained to the department chair, who said curtly that he could do nothing until the course was over. John took this to mean that the chair would do nothing and just accepted the bad grade.

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=412807&c=1

>>1035632

>You have to go back to Aquinas to find the last great statements on behalf of Christianity.
Have you gone mad?

>>1030711
>that picture

>>1003188

>dices

>"He even speeded up more. When he got to the bank, he come in chomping."

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/24469816/detail.html

>Larsson's real breakthrough is a veritable Final Solution for abused women: Bad men cannot be tamed, controlled, negotiated with or reasoned with -- they simply must be tortured or killed. That this message has been delivered by a man (a dead one, no less) may even be the key to its success; one wonders if the books would have sold as well in America had a woman written them. No doubt a female author imagining such cunning retribution would have gotten commercially cock-blocked by the theatrical, often illogical wrath of our current Executive VPs of Broadcast Misogyny, Limbaugh and O'Reilly.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/billy-frolick/lisbeth-salander-in-2012_b_665431.html?ir=Books

>he was so profligate and dissipated that he actually carried about with him money to procure the immediate gratification of his desires

>page after page of ruined Tolkien

>Celebrity Latin tattoos may be fuelling a revival of the ancient language in schools, it emerged today.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1296340/The-celebrity-tattoos-sparked-Latin-craze-schoolchil
dren.html

>developed by Keith Boadwee, Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts, and visiting faculty member at the San Francisco Art Institute.

>Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts, and visiting faculty member at the San Francisco Art Institute.

>Adjunct Professor of Fine Arts at the California College of the Arts

>Professor of Fine Arts

We live in dark times.

>The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense. Its enormous influence has not improved American students' grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it.

http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/25497

>>909734

>>898204

>Otakon

>>855917

>“In theory, we now have equal rights,” sighed one senior female executive at a French multinational. “In practice, we still have babies.”

>In the Western world, motherhood remains the barrier to gender equality.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/23/world/europe/23iht-letter.html?pagewanted=all

Motherhood must be abolished?

>20 million word poem is memorized by young man overnight.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-lundberg/divinely-inspired-young-t_b_617611.html

At 100 words per minute, that's over 3000 hours of poetry.
My mind has just been blown.

>Literature is not a good source of knowledge about the world.

http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2010/06/truth-from-fiction-truth-or-fiction.html

In Jaipur, capital of the desert state of Rajasthan, I spent time with Mohan Bhopa, a local goatherd and bard, who keeps alive a four-thousand-line sacred epic that he, now virtually alone, still knows by heart. Though completely illiterate, Mohan is one of the last hereditary singers of a great Rajasthani medieval poem, the "Epic of Pabuji." This six-hundred-year-old text is a fabulous tale of heroism and honor, struggle and loss, and, finally, martyrdom and vengeance. Over time, it seems to have grown from a local saga about the heroic doings of a raiding chieftain protecting his cattle to the legendary story of a semidivine warrior and incarnate god. When these four thousand courtly lines are recited from beginning to end--which rarely happens these days--it takes no less than five nights of eight-hour, dusk-till-dawn performances to unfold. Mohan's caste of wandering bhopas (shamans and bards) travels from village to village, staging performances.