/lit/ - Literature

>>11186439
just read some wodehouse, darling

>>11186452
Already done, it's not quite the same. I'm looking for some serious, romantic fiction wherein two great minds and genetic lineages cross paths and fall in love.

>Oxford philosophy courses have a woman quota on the reading material
kek

OP here.

I have to admit I did cry while watching the Royal Wedding. When the elderly white priest praised at length the institution of marriage and how it binds two people in love I had to wipe the tears from my face. Truly transcendental.

>>11186460
>polytechnic philosophy courses have an "Idiots Guide to..." quote on the reading material

Ho, ho!

I went to Oxford, it's really suffocatingly small to me, albeit the conversation is great.

>>11186484
>suffocatingly small

The perfect size for a sensitive, intelligent academic who spends most of his or her time in the library, theatre hall or dorm room studying and writing essays. No loud noises. No distraction. No huge crowds of shoppers. It's the ideal size for an individual of refinement and high class, with their immediate surroundings not marred by council flats or orc estates. And it's also the perfect size for someone who will then move to London (as most of the genetically profound student body does, of course - it's where the money's at after all). They can stand on the crowded tube one evening after a long day at their £75k+ job and distract themselves from the rat race by recalling that evening spent strolling along the water in Oxford, or that afternoon eating scones and drinking non-mass-produced tea with their lover in some small traditional cafe. These memories in due course will always remind them that there is a life outside of London, and that it it is only a short train journey away should they wish to escape the hustle and bustle for the weekend and recapture their youthful joy de viva.

>>11186439
>tfw the sorting hat puts you in Nuffield

>you will never attend a party like pic related

these are my favourite threads

>>11186498
It's fucking rammed with tourists mate, especially if you go to Christ church. Stop larping

>>11186655
I went to one of the most prestigious private schools in my country and I've been to a few like that, they're all revolting and pretentious

>>11186681
>not avoiding the quacking Asian tourists herds by walking stealthily down the side-alleys, secret passageways and private gardens
>not making the day of some humble (poor) Chinese rick picker orc by signing her scrapbook and taking a quick selfie with her (which she will masturbate to in her Holiday Inn room later that evening)
>not simply striding through the crowd of oriental orcs armed with a vintage umbrella imperiously brushing aside the fanny pack-wearing head orc who squints up at you and shields his face from the sun while the female orientals pull him back and bow to you in apology
>not sitting splay-legged atop your vintage bicycle and charging the crowd of orcs with the sharp end of your vintage umbrella pointed towards them, crying out "Manui dat cognitio vires!" as they scatter clacking in all directions

Good god, my man.

>>11186689
Yes but did you attend the University of Oxford, orc?

>Data released to the MP for Tottenham, David Lammy, under the Freedom of Information Act shows that 82% of offers from Oxford and 81% from Cambridge went to students from the top two socio-economic groups in 2015, up from 79% at both universities five years earlier.

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/oct/19/oxbridge-becoming-less-diverse-as-richest-gain-80-of-offers

Orcs literally BTFO

If this is real, it's funny the pain this little student will feel when he is brushed away from Oxford into the real world. You're just passing through, kid. Some of us get to live here.

>some of us get to live here

Do you live near the University of Oxford college or out in the sticks?

Also, why the hell would anyone stay in Oxford after graduating unless they were pursuing further academic work. London is where it's at. Why earn a meagre £40k or so in Oxford when one could earn twice that much working in finance? Maybe when you're too old to be economically useful, then it's fine to return to Oxford, but you really are selling yourself short if you live there in your 20s and 30s.

>>11186778
Intended for:
>>11186766

>>11186464
Same, didn't know such turbofaggotry resided in me. How did you feel about them integrating so many Southern Baptist preformative acts? The black priest was in fact Anglican, but his delivery was the type of pulpit huckstery you'd see in American Evangelical churches. Same with the black choire, or their performance rather. I mean the bride was Catholic for fuck's sake. Barely black and certainly not part of that distinctly American Christian tradition. Why bring redneckful niggery inside St George's Chapel then?

on chesil beach touches on this

>falling for the oxford meme

>>11186802
I found the gospel choir and frankly stupid preacher to be utterly repulsive, as well as the African woman standing outside yelling "AYAYAYAYAYAAYY" every time the crowd cheered. I reject outright the Wakandaisation of British tradition. I also distrust Meghan and believe her to be something of an amoral social climber, and a B-list actress who has snared a rather dim-witted prince. The wedding overall was very enjoyable, but the Africans really did ruin it.

The rather sober speech given about the importance of marriage, and about how two loving and loyal people will live only for each other etc really did bring me to tears. I look forward with intense anticipation to my own wedding, which I am already sincerely planning in my imagination.

>tfw dumb, ugly and poor

>>11186855
t. socrates

>>11186439
Not quite what your asking for, but, if I hadn't yet, I'd read Beerbohm's Zuleika Dobson about now were I in your position, which I frankly own I cannot even imagine, so? I would also imagine that at your latitude the horse chestnuts are now in bloom (probably just out.. of bloom) as well.

>>11186853
I responded positively to the same elements, but I don't know whether I "distrust" Meghan. I have not yet reached such royal levels of faggotry. Still, since she does't even come from that Black American Evangelical tradition, why incorporate elements of snake oil Evangelical huckstery and stylistic chimping into the service?

>>11186778
>lmao at not being well off or bright enough to pursue academic work at Oxford

UGLY OOOORC, GO CHASE THAT CARROT IN LONDON AND CROWD WITH BROWN SUBHUMANS