/lit/ - Literature

>>14945270
>Chaucer

>alas they will call me a monster but that is Mein Kampf
seriously?

>>14815876
>Fukuyama

>that that

>>14673182
guess you were just born in le wrong generation lmao

What are the best books of 21th century psychoanalysis, everytime I look up for some psychoanalisis I get fucking Freud

>>14623601
>except for the otherwise central zone

Jesus Christ.

>Author uses "her" and "she" when talking about a hypothetical person for an analogy

>>14591500
>Finnegan's Wake

>>14505795
>Let us then examine this point ,and say, "God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here.There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager? According to reason, you can do neither the one thing nor the other; according to reason, you can defend neither of the propositions. Do not, then, reprove for error those who have made a choice; for you know nothing about it. "No, but I blame them for having made, not this choice, but a choice; for again both he who chooses heads and he who chooses tails are equally at fault, they are both in the wrong. The true course is not to wager at all. Yes; but you must wager. It is not optional

fuck you pascal you already gave me the correct option you cant tel me not to chose it

Why is /sci/ so full of pseuds? At least I have you guys.

>>14207074
>stop spouting that awful meme
hits close to home don't it
I bet you do very little aside from COOMing all day

Holy fucking cringe this board is filled with pretentious hipster fucking losers. You live your entire lives on the internet and think that’s how everything is lmaoooo

>>14076500
>my dude
>Y'all

>>14013525
>The Guardian

>I‘m going to try and read the entire western canon in 5 years
No. You won’t be able to.

>>13889871
It baffles my mind how imbeciles always expect there to be a study for everything and fail to realize that conducting such a study let alone publishing is near impossible and it's not a hornet's nest any one wants to kick regardless. Nothing makes people foam at the mouth more than saying sexual activity in any form may have physiological repercussions.

>mom writes "truly a tour de fource through the cultural landscape of modern america" as a review in the last page

>And Milo began to toss the chocolate covered cotton into Yossarian‘s cupped hands. He had estimated with the help of a Maltese farmer who had a similar bodily composition to Yossarian that exactly twenty pieces would fit into Yossarian‘s mitts before the twenty-first would cause them all to bounce out.

>”But I can‘t catch 21!“ Said Yossarian.
>“You can catch 20, why not 21?“
>“I can’t catch 20, there‘s not enough room.“
>”could you stack 21 up?”
>”Milo, I can’t stack anything or I’ll move my hand and then they’ll all fall out!”
>”Try stacking 21 Yossarian, do it for the war effort!”
>”I can catch 20 just fine, but I can’t stack 21!”
>”I think the next improvement is for you to catch 21, and then try to stack them.”
>“If I can’t stack 21, then how can I catch 21?”
>“I think i’ve just diagnosed you Yossarian, I can help you unlike Doc Daneeka. You see, your issue is that you can’t commit emotionally to anything, not even a million dollar business idea! How about a little shock therapy, or at least some therapy that will shock you. Let’s go at a faster pace, here’s two at a time, Yossarian! Here it comes! Catch 22!”

>So in the end I guess there really is something that lurks inside us all... some sort of... Inherent Vice.
Bravo, Pynchon, bravo.

>>13723119
>He didn't cry when Alcibiades, son of Theophonius, who owned a hundred acres of land on the ragged shores of Ithaca, fell lifeless to the ground as shadows filled his eyes.

>>13598461
>The Board of Deputies of British Jews was last night reconsidering its decision to sell one of the most notorious anti-semitic documents in English literature after the manuscript failed to reach its reserve price of £150,000 at auction.

>It had been feared that the document - partly in the handwriting of its author, the Victorian adventurer Sir Richard Burton - might be bought by far right extremists to exploit the explorer's wildly virulent attack on Jews and his acceptance of the so-called blood libel whereby Christians were supposedly sacrificed so that their blood could be used in Passover festivities.

>The board bought the manuscript and associated documents 90 years ago to prevent publication. Previously, the board had allowed the manuscript to be seen only by a few scholars.

Lmao the fucking kikes literally fucking bought it and tried to prevent the thing from being published for a century

>"I have seen the manuscript and I think it should be made available only to bona fide scholars. I was shocked that a man of Burton's intelligence should believe the blood libel, but I think his allegations still have resonance for far right groups today." He added that the auction had been advertised on US Nazi websites.

Oy vey, only let people guaranteed to agree with me read it!

>The manuscript was bought by David Lindo Alexander, president of the Board of Deputies of British Jews, which has possessed it since 1911. A spokesman for the board said: " We do need the money."

>A spokesman for the board said: " We do need the money."

hOW CAN THEY BE SUCH CONSISTENTLY HORRIBLE FUCKING PEOPLE?

>>13574168
>greatest written novel
>unironically opens with a tittle drop

>scantily clad