/lit/ - Literature

>every department home page has a mission statement on George Floyd
I just want to learn about topology and the history of 18th century Levant trade, please shut the fuck up

>>18082237
>he doesn't know what a hyperbole is.

>>18014358

>eceleb fanboy garbage on /lit/

>>17367304
>Amos Nathan Tversky was an Israeli cognitive and mathematical psychologist

>>17332320
>Jack Dorsey
>Bill Gates
>Sapiens kike

>>17267489
>"That's all I'd do all day. I'd just be the catcher in the rye and all."

>>17241553

>>17201047
>using translated russian as an example of prose

>>17114964
>race is a myth
so some people don't have black skin and other people don't have white skin, and some people aren't more genetically similar to certain people than they are to other people, and some people aren't from different places than other people?

>It's an Anna chapter
Why is she even in this book? Let alone the title character? She is by far the worst character in the book, a whinny impulsive whore (Karenin was a damn angel). This book would have the same substance if it was just about Levin, Kitty, Dolly, Stiva, and maybe a few others.

>>16926701
No it isn't, anglo

>citation refers to another book of the same author, in which he presumably cited the true source for the claim made here
>can't even go to the library to get that other book because of the Wuhan flu
Would it have killed him to just make the citation again?

>and when gilgamesh returned, he brought us a tale of the time before the deluge. it truly was: The Epic of Gilgamesh
this is where it started huh?

>>15397725
>1600 years later
>still nothing better then Gilgamesh yet

>>15369067
> You answered so you care
when is this trope going to die?

>>15151727
>rational wiki

>Time doesn't exist

>thread about maddox and authors like him turns into some faggot kvetching about le 4chan nazis

>Typical time to read: 4 hours
>Time left in book: 6 hours 50 min

>Reading nonfiction book
>Content is interesting, but author is unlikable and obnoxiously biased
Put it down or keep going?

>>14149192
What else are they gonna do with them, read?

>video showing prisoner transfer in china
>some moron / paid actor starts spamming that it's evidence of le ebin concentration camps
>people who can actually read mandarin point out that uniforms are clearly for a correctional facility not a reeducation camp are ignored or called bots
>another several days of rabid "china bad!" news articles and social media "discourse" to look forward to
>despite this no actual criticism of china or introspection about the criminal justice system in your own country will occur
I really, really hate mass media

>>13443175
>muh Orientalism
Why do certain people who are into Neoplatonism get upset when people mention Vedanta, as though they felt that Neoplatonism was threatened by it? Why can't people just appreciate both? It's not some sports contest.