/lit/ - Literature

>>11787042
If you make something ubiquitous you destroy its meaning to the individual. Food was once sacred, you didn't have a lot of it, the family meal was an important facet of human bonding. Now we eat hamburgers while one our way to work and rarely sit down at the dinner table together. Education was once taken quite seriously by children, it was an honor and not something everyone got to have, and so parents and children tried to make the most of their education. Now people spend tens of thousands of dollars to zone out during lectures and scroll through Facebook.

You think fucking like rabbits will do anything positive for the world? Sex will become sexless. Sex will become a handshake. It already has. So many people fuck nonstop, yet are filled with ennui and self-loathing. There is no connection made, there is no exploration of self for most of these people. A world of ubiquitous sex is a world where sex has become lost.

The Far and Near by Thomas Wolfe. I googled "short story about a train conductor" and it was the first result.

Sounds interesting. I may read it. Happy choo-chooing anon.

>>6303773

>DFW when engineering student

So if stirner is so erudite and what have you, do you even need to read beyond the intro? It seems that the point is made in the first 2 pages.

>>6222397
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>>6188342

If you're just going to explain away any shitty inconsistency with "it's part of the story" I'm not even going to bother.

Sucks.

Can't believe people read this in serialized form over years. I guess it's like the 18th century equivalent of Dr. Who

Books you read in high school. Let's see how /lit/ your curriculum was.

>9th grade
The odyssey, Romeo and Juliet, Enders game, night, The Pearl
>10th grade
To kill a mockingbird, and then there were none, Frankenstein, Something Wicked, Lord of the Flies
>11th grade
The great Gatsby, Things they Carried, Scarlet Letter, The crucible, Of mice and Men
>12th grade
Hamlet, Canterbury tales, Heart of Darkness, The time Machine, 1984, Beowulf,
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