/lit/ - Literature

>>2478833

Wow, I guess a pleb can't understand literature after all.

>>2430766
>>2430790

The part I like the most is how he references economic concepts, a discipline without objective laws, to get at the fundamental nature of things. He then equates those concepts to physical laws like gravity.

Plebs gonna pleb.

>>2358092
Oh God, I'm done.

>>2341282
>he thinks africa is backwards because of IQ

>>2334450
>philosophy
>so you know it's intelligent

take a semester of philosophy and see if you still feel that way

>>2305246
>none of those criticisms entered popular culture

>>2116613
>the nobel prize committee is now so liberal, you can't even get one unless your name is clearly not american

>>2065968
>>2065968

>>2044830

>>2036935

>2011
>Be 16
>People much older still measure maturity in years
>mfw

>>1960912

LOL. Consider my poem revised.

Nigger
>The word originated as a term used in a neutral context to refer to black people, as a variation of the Spanish/Portuguese noun negro, a descendant of the Latin adjective niger, meaning the color "black".
MFW niger actually means nigger
All that at cackling in world history.Thought it was only a coincidence.

>mfw /tv/ has better aSoFI threads than /lit/

>Go on Yahoo Answers.
>Books and Authors and Poetry sections
>mfw

I have not read one good piece of writing there, /lit/. It's all unbelievably bad. So, let's all go to Yahoo Answers and either post here the best and worst of what we find, or give the kids there some real help. One thing is for sure: they all need a good dose of critique.

>>1841850
>members of the working class don't have existential crises

>>1744624
Because we all know how much these factors played in the canonization of Michael Crichton and Robert Ludlum.

>implying I read more than half of the first book
>implying I even read much when I was a kid
>implying I don't read upwards of 4 novels a week now
>implying ANY of them suck.

>>1597535

>Each one of our lives are spinning out of the grasp of our control.>Each one of our lives are spinning out of the grasp of our control.>Each one of our lives are spinning out of the grasp of our control.>Each one of our lives are spinning out of the grasp of our control.>Each one of our lives are spinning out of the grasp of our control.>Each one of our lives are spinning out of the grasp of our control.

>>1538111
>>1538111
>Spiritualistic Philosophy
>implying that's a good thing
0/10
what a waste of oxygen

>>1468433
>if you go to grad school and become a college professor, that's where all the big bucks are.
>English professor
>big bucks
Good luck struggling, traveling, and kissing ass for the faintest glimpse of the will-o-the-wisp of academic tenure for 10-15 years, and that's assuming you can find the jobs in the first place. And THAT'S assuming you can make it through the rigmarole of grad school and achieving your doctorate.
OP, go this route if it's a passion you seriously think you can sustain through rigorous amounts of personal and intellectual challenges. Do not follow this advice with much expectation of monetary reward unless you are sure of your brilliance and/or you can get published.
I'm not meaning to discourage you, and I'm not yet one more engineerfag telling you "Herp derp it's stupid and you'll never make money! Go get a library card!" I'm just saying, check your motives when you say make plans like, "I'm going to devote the next 10-12, possibly more, years of my life to studying and developing literally thousands of opinions and concepts on one subject with numerous theories and applications."
I think science and humanities are interdependent. Just an opinion I pulled right out of my ass one day, but it's what I believe. But they take and offer two very different sets of values and rewards.

>>1419223
>Teachers
>free time.
That's a pretty stupid misconception there. I even remember telling somebody else at school, "Well if you don't like homework why the hell would you want to be a teacher?"

>>1399898
Did you just get back or something? You haven't seen the thread?
Danielle Steele? Really man?

>>1307942

>God tier anything
>Orson Scott Card

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