/lit/ - Literature

>Among Steiner's non-traditional views, in his autobiography titled Errata (1997), Steiner related his sympathetic stance towards the use of brothels since his college years at the University of Chicago. As Steiner stated, "My virginity offended Alfie (his college room-mate). He found it ostentatious and vaguely corrupt in a nineteen-year-old... He sniffed the fear in me with disdain. And marched me off to Cicero, Illinois, a town justly ill famed but, by virtue of its name, reassuring to me. There he organized, with casual authority, an initiation as thorough as it was gentle. It is this unlikely gentleness, the caring under circumstances so outwardly crass, that blesses me still."

Any journalists out there? How do you like your job? How does one begin work as a journalist?

Currently writing for my campus newspaper and really enjoy it.

Anyone here browse Cool Freak's Wikipedia Club? A lot of interesting things posted there and I think if more /lit/erati knew about it there would be even better contributions.

What does /lit/ think of prostitution?
The ethics, the experience, etc...

George Steiner describes his loss of virginity to a prostitute fondly. "My virginity offended Alfie (his college room-mate). He found it ostentatious and vaguely corrupt in a nineteen-year-old... He sniffed the fear in me with disdain. And marched me off to Cicero, Illinois, a town justly ill famed but, by virtue of its name, reassuring to me. There he organized, with casual authority, a initiation as thorough as it was gentle. It is this unlikely gentleness, the caring under circumstances so outwardly crass, that blesses me still."

The purpose of art, in my opinion, is to induce within the subject a certain experience of consciousness, whether it is an experience that the author has had already and wishes others to experience, or one that is entirely new. Why does that experience necessarily have to be beautiful? An "ugly" piece of art could inspire within the viewer a much more profound experience than a beautiful one.

Furthermore, how can there even be objectivity in art? How would you measure its value- complexity? I honestly don't know how anyone could perform an objective analysis of art.

To the stuckists and old people: Art develops. Get over it.