/lit/ - Literature

>>11467921
It's just true. On the artistic scale, Americans have created little of value. The highest peaks of American literature might lie in the works of Melville, but that's one of the few writers to have made something interesting from the US. It's pitiful. Americans can't write. It almost always ends up being some silly moralizing about blacks (see the required reading of any American high school). The African also ruined American English. The American spirit can more appropriately be called the African spirit and this is reflected in the American dialect and literature.

>>11460799
Get this thot off of /lit/!!!!

>>11461189
Sorry, I hate /pol/ and cannot properly be grouped in with them.

>>11461192
Even if what you said were true (which I don't think it is), why should music's goal be to replicate the intonation of speech? That's a silly and lowly goal. One may as well listen to actual speech. Music has a higher function and is beautiful precisely because of its non-human element and because it elevates the spirit of a man (when done right) to greater regions. If jazz imitates the intonation of human speech, then classical music imitates the intonation of the soul; thereby, elevating mankind above the merely human and allowing him to walk with the gods. Case in point: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja4ELOmNpOo&frags=pl%2Cwn

That said, I listen mostly to old folk songs from old, dying cultures and marching songs. Sometimes some hymns as well. It depends on how I feel.

>>11458004
Good points. I suppose that even if what was said in the book about Pythagoras and the feminine element of his cult were true, I shouldn't hold that against his actual metaphysical view, which would have nothing to do with the way his cult was ran. That said, where could one even read about his views? I know Aristotle summed some of his stuff up, but what's the go-to text for Pythagoras?