/lit/ - Literature

>>13629798
because you live in society, retard.
if someone go in town and comit crime we stop them because they disrupt the society, if someone hurt themself they couldnt be funtional members so is totally normal reject sluts

>>12751674

WOULD YOU GUYS DRINK THAT COFFEE?
BE HONEST

Ishmael is the inheritor of Abraham's will. Exiled though he was, he was not apart from God; he was blessed by Him to inherit a kingdom and sire many sons as in his prophetic naming by God. Grown by himself in the wild as a young man, he becomes an archer and a wanderer before settling his kingdom and fathering his sons. In which ways does this relate to the Ishmael of Moby Dick, and in a way Herman Melville himself?
Melville's father died when he was a teenager, though he wasn't forced to leave home. If he were exiled, it was much in the same manner as his Ishmael - self imposed exile as a sailor following academic disappointments. Thereafter he and Ishmael certainly wandered, and whaling is analogous to archery. Ishmael's life following the sinking of the Pequod is not entirely clear, though he miraculously survives and is apparently successful in some way afterwards. Maybe this is a sign of God's blessing of Ishmael, that he is destined his kingdom after facing the wild, and not to face death before achieving it.
Melville's own life after his sailing days was clearly very painful for him in its mundanity, he must have thought himself cheated of his destiny in a way. He had always been proud of his rhetorical and linguistic ability, but he never achieved his destiny of "kingdom", literary primacy of his domain, until much after his death.

>>12691168
>>12691180
>fat
>weabo
>incel (needs a vibrator)
>plants inside the house
>blant decoration
yikes

Where does consciousness even come from? What is your philosophical stance on it?