/lit/ - Literature

>>18236560
nice

current:
>les miserables
>the aeneid
>kokoro
>a rebours

nexttt
>the odyssey
>sun and steel

might have a crack at ulysses or some satre who knows

>>13198984
What the fuck, are we gonna be /pol/ now?

I mean she kinda has a point desu. It's kinda frustrating if you think about it. You might not like modern authors but there are still talented ones out there and some who could possibly further the genre however how are they going to if gatekeepers like you clutch on to this idea that only classics must be read. *Mind you the reason why you think this way is because the classics are reputable and therefore appear to make you smarter. You know you aren't going to get that clout by reading newer novels. You'd rather name drop Dostoevsky like he's some underground artist you found whilst he got namedropped in Justice fuckin League of all movies

>>12737681
>capitalism is working
M8 the US 14 trillion in debt, people are dropping dead across the globe because capitalism has let its mask slip over yonder, its only a matter of time until martial law is implemented and capital no longer needs to pretty itself up anywhere for anyone not a part of the elite
Hope the French rebels take power and threaten nuclear war only to drop it on themselves, only then will the message get across

>huge company doing great PR to capitalize for profits on millenials' retarded political opinions

Literally no reason to be mad at this

>>10424881
No problem, it is a rather informative text on nuclear strategy.

>>9363609

>implying academia was ever an option for me
>tfw combative and ornery personality

Anyone else feel these feels? I've got an immaculate resume and fire GRE scores but I'm too disagreeable and quite honestly ultra right-wing. The genesis of my disagreeableness seems to be my unwillingness to be complicit in left-wing orthodoxy no matter what. I guess this makes me stupid in a way. Also the average grad student/person pursuing academia is so sheltered and fuccboi-esque it bothers me; I just feel like I need to relentlessly bully them for being so weak.

I've seen people dragged through the mud at these universities for saying something totally innocuous relative to my beliefs, and I'm not afraid to say whatever the fuck I think. I don't care if a whiny college kid doesn't like what I have to say and I especially hate the idea of not being allowed to say something; I will rail against that shit immediately.

It feels so liberating to not let leftist hegemony control you in a way, even though my ass is probably bound to get kicked out for not hopping on the diversity fuck white people train.

Also my research would never be funded in a million years and I'd probably be laughed out of the hiring process. I could shut my mouth for a few years and "infiltrate" until tenure but that's just not who I am.

Who here /renegadescholar/ aka private practice aka homelessness

>>9357761
>a majority of the human race will be wiped out
I.e. Reduce our carbon footprint to almost zero and solve climate change? The choice is even more obvious.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eb2lMRgWDXU

tfw when I was a kid (8-14 y/o) the professors would read my creative papers aloud in front of the class but I have never been able to create anything worth afterwards outside of school

>>8812397
The Heart of the Matter is generally regarded as Greene's best novel.

Viper's Tangle is my favorite Mauriac novel. It's very good, very much a reflection of the tattered reality of Catholicism as lived in the field.

Read some of Flannery O'Connor's best stories,* and see if you can figure out how they reflect the sensibility of an orthodox Catholic rather than that of a cynical atheist, which the stories, on the surface, would seem to suggest.

*E.g.:
A Good Man Is Hard to Find
Good Country People
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The River
A Temple of the Holy Ghost
Everything that Rises Must Converge

As an aside: The Enduring Chill is about an aspiring writer. It's a notch below her best work, but should be required reading for all aspiring writers on /lit/.