/lit/ - Literature

sage

Compared to what?

OR PERHAPS, SOME OF US JUST ENJOY READING ENJOYMENT, OR TO KILL TIME?

>>1056864
Someone is saging because they're mad.

>>1056864
I see no legit reason to sage.

When someone is right, they're right.

To argue against it with such manners makes one look like an idiot. (Like you nigger)

>>1056874
You do realize that there's a television right there in your living room, right?

A whole lot of butthurt.

That episode made me feel foolish and ashamed of reading.

I SPEND THE MAJORITY OF MY TIME READING IN TRANSIT OR WHEN I AM TRAVELLING.

I DON'T WANT TO CARRY MY TELEVISION AROUND, THAT IS SILLY.

>>1056881
I'm watching TV and reading right now. Some of us aren't women and can multitask.

>>1056874

>>1056870
Or ignore me.

>>1056887
Get a portable device and stop being a broke nigger.

>>1056894
I don't need to read anymore now that I have Flotv.

>>1056894
>>IMPLYING I DIDN'T JUST BUY A KINDLE THAT COSTS MORE THAN PORTABLE TELEVISIONS.

>>1056900
Does it have flotv?

Anyone who does something that does 1/2 the job and takes twice as long is an idiot. I don't even understand the logic to reading.

which episode is this?

>mfw OP is actually using south park for an argument

>>1056906
MY LAPTOP HAS ACCESS TO THE INTERNET, AND THUS TV SHOWS.

YOU HAVEN'T MANAGED TO COUNTER MY ARGUMENT ABOUT THE CHOICE OF TIME. JUST BECAUSE I'M BORED, DOESN'T NECESSITATE THAT WATCHING TV IS THE PARAMOUNT MEANS OF OCCUPYING SUCH FREE TIME, NOR IS IT THE MOST CONVENIENT.

IT'S LIKE SAYING: WHY TAKE UP SUCH AND SUCH SPORT/HOBBY, WHEN WE CAN JUST WATCH PEOPLE DO IT BETTER THAN US ON TV OR THE INTERNET.

0/10

>>1056916
>implying a troll fails.
>getting butthurt which indicates trolled status.

Nigga, you just went full retard.

>>1056916
That's a retarded comparison. Comparing playing sports to watching sports would be like comparing reading about hobbits delivering rings to volcanoes as opposed to delivering rings to volcanoes yourself. Watching and reading does the same job as reading only faster.

I thought you reading folk were supposed to be smart?

>>1056916
I'll say he is a failed trolled despite taking the necessary steps to indicate my trolled statues. Also, ALL CAPS.

>>1056924
>implying television or film can always depict an idea or story as well as a book can

>>1056933
Now you are just getting arrogant. Implying that if it's not supported by your imagination it can't be good.

>>1056933
Movies have been better attempting books since books were first made.

Neverending Story, The Warriors, Twilight, etc.

ITT: /b/tards troll /lit/ by the repeated use of the word 'nigga'

>>>/tv/11693280

I'll just get out and say it:

I read books to feel smarter.

>>1056942
I think they're from /tv/, not /b/.

Since when did South Park start ripping off the Tractatus Logico Philosophicus?

>>1056946
In other words, you're really dumb and deserve my boot up your ass?

>>1056952

I actually just read summaries on wikipedia so I can pick up nerdy chicks and I lift weights in my spare time. Come and get some.

Hi, /mu/ here just joining in for some diversity.

>>1056863

If you were to talk the tip of a mango and delve it deep into your anus, you would conclude that the fire in metal and uranium would also be compared to the higher education of a common pull string.

fuck you nigger

>>1056924
LITERATURE IS ART IN THE FORM OF WRITING.

PLEASE EXPLAIN HOW CINEMA DOES THE SAME THING, WHEN OFTEN THEY CUT OUT THE TEXT THAT MAKES IT LITERATURE?

FURTHERMORE, IF YOU WATCH A MOVIE FOR AN HOUR OR SO, YOU DON'T GET TO KNOW THE CHARACTERS AS MUCH AS YOU WOULD BY READING THE BOOK. THROUGH THE NOVEL, THE CHARACTER HAS TIME TO EVOLVE AND SUCH, WHEREAS IN THE MOVIE, THEY ARE RESTRICTED BY TIME RESTRAINTS OF MOVIES AND MONEY. IN SUMMATION, AT THE END OF THE DAY, BOOKS AND MOVIES DO NOT OFFER THE SAME THING.

I DO WATCH MOVIES, BUT I ALSO READ. YOU EVER TRIED COMPARING MOVIES TO THE ORIGINAL TEXT? IT'S A RARITY FOR THE MOVIE TO SURPASS THE BOOK.

What episode was this?

>>1056980
>LITERATURE IS ART IN THE FORM OF WRITING
my daily newspaper isn't art in the form of writing, try again plz.
>define art lol

Definitions of literature on the Web:

creative writing of recognized artistic value

PRINCETON.

don't mind DeepandEdgy he's another one of the plebeian retards who roam this board

>>1057009
HE'S NOT A VERY GOOD TROLL, IS HE?

Every time I see all caps, I read it in Samuel L. Jackson's voice.

no he just looks like a dumbass.

Actually what this episode was about was mis-interpretation. I think OP just mis-interpreted it. So in actuality South Park did a good job telling him off.

>>1056999
>creative writing of recognized artistic value

wikipedia
>Creative writing is considered to be any writing, fiction, poetry, or non-fiction, that goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature

>normal professional, journalistic, academic, and technical forms of literature
Oh shit there goes most of what we commonly consider literature guys

> recognized
hurr durr recognised by who? etc

Well keep on watching TV, OP, if you feel books are worthless. I'll keep on reading since I feel TV is worthless. Let's see where we both end up in 10 years.

Is this board just a constant intellectual dick measuring contest?

>>1057027
>he gets his arguments from wikipedia!

>>1057031
Reading =/= success.

Sure is proving OP's point.

>>1057041

Well follow OP in his way. Am I supposed to give a fuck about what you guys do?

>>1057035

No, it's people who have a right to talk, and lots of little untermenschen trying to drown them out with trolling and demented behavior.

>>1057043
You clearly do you bitter fuck.

>>1057045

0/10

>>1057040

Well frankly the term 'Creative Writing' is retarded because all writing is created. I'm just using wikipedia for convenience.

>>1057049
I take that rating seriously because I'm sure you read a book about rating troll posts which makes you very successful at it.

>>1057055

So... what happens next?

>>1057055
>I use wikipedia for convenience because I can't be bothered to take the time to think for myself!

>>1057056
lol@misquote, but seriously dude I'm not going to respond to you again here if you don't put in more effort than greentext

>>1057064
>implying it wasn't what you were thinking

can i watch this episode online?

>>1056939

>since books were first made.

>talking about movie adaptations of literature.

>Thinks books have only existed for thirty years.

If you're going to troll, at least do so well.

>>1056863
That episode of S.P. would have been a serious troll if this were the 1950s and New Criticism were still in vogue. But since at least the 1960s, critics have widely acknowledge a certain amount of epistemological uncertainty about interpreting just about any text. Depending on what one privileges as evidence, interpretations of a single text will vary widely.

So, yeah in that episode it was fun seeing everyone vomit every thirty seconds (totally didn't get old after the 20th time), but its critique didn't really offer anything fresh or thought provoking.

>>1057071
You can watch every episode at www.southparkstudios.com
besides "The Super Best Friends" episode, for obvious reasons.

>South Park telling anyone off

Enjoy your strawmen

>>1057108
what episode are we discussing?

that episode was about catcher in the rye and how its actually garbage despite a cult following.

>>1057135
Scrotie Mcboogerballs

In reality nothing is worth anything unless you make it so.

Well, my hobby of reading and writing makes me more adept to succeed in the professional realm where those tools are coveted. It helps me better my grasp of the English language and places me above illiterate retards like you OP.

Being a lazy couch potato wont get you anything but a lifetime of mindless entertainment and rings around your waist. If you're content with that, then fine, enjoy. But bugger off and leave me to the quiet solace of my books. I'm not hurting anyone and what do you care how I waste my days?

It probably wont get you laid either, whereas I can pretend like a hipster given all of the books I read and swim in the superficial poon by pretending to sound learned. In essence, you're reduced to the same carbon copy of the 35 million (or however many) other cows that tune in every week to see which second rate loser, who only went on the show because they weren't talented enough to cut it on their own without the influence of a media zeitgeist, will win "America's (Insert random hobby here)." To be short, Enjoy being bathed in the hollow embrace of that screen. Enjoy your crippled personality and a life of saying nothing insightful or worthwhile; for instance, that "books are meaningless." You're well on your way to the American dream of producing nothing and consuming all.

(1/2)

Besides, most TV is crap anyway and those special shows that aren't (namely AMC and HBO stuff) are highly literary. So, without knowing it, you probably enjoy literature too. South Park even has some elements of literature in there, even though they tend to think very highly of their own opinions and can be blunt about the point they're making. Good writers allow for some subtlety to wash over their audience but not South Park. They'd rather beat you over the head with their point and their violent animation and "shocking" use of derisive language so that 5 minutes into any episode you already understand what they're getting at and wish they'd move on to develop the idea further.

Then again, all of that is just like...my opinion, man, which I can acknowledge doesn't extend beyond the limits of my own brain, unlike you.

(2/2)

What episode was this? I wish to know what the fuck we are all talking about.

>>1056863
>Books have no meaning
>Posting on 4chan

"Looks like we got ourselves a reader!!!"
CSI is so good on paper.