/lit/ - Literature

>>11205255
Nah, just learn the relevant memes. Most people here don't read

nah, just have to shitpost and pretend to read

>>11205255
Don't post until you've read The Iliad, The Odyssey, The Republic, Hamlet, and Beyond Good and Evil.

Welcome, frogposter. Like with most boards on 4chan, you can pass easily as >>11205267 notes, but to get the most out of your time, you're better off reading more and posting here only occasionally.

>>11205255
Leave this board and never return if any one of these apply to you:

>you read any form of genre fiction
>you barely know your classics
>you tend to believe that if you like a given work, it is justified on an artistic level
>you think everyone's opinion should be accepted and respected
>you speak a single language
>you read contemporary versions of Shakespeare or Milton
>you read for the plot
>you read for entertainment
>you rarely read nonfiction
>you don't have a solid grounding in philosophy
>you don't have at least have some understanding of the Three Tragedians and Homer
>you have little to no understanding of literature outside of your cultural horizon
>you have little to no understanding of literature within your own cultural horizon
>you mostly read contemporary literature
>you believe 'the author is dead'
>you make your literary analysis proceed from ideology
>you think intricate prose is 'pretentious' and that the author 'should just get to the point'
>your rarely read poetry
>you think Rhythm and Rhyme is just useless rules and laws restricting creativity
>you have a hard time explaining why you like a given work
>you have a hard time forming structured and relevant literary criticism
>you tend to refuse to judge works for yourself, rather relying on the opinions of literary authorities
>you rarely read for more than one or two hours straight

>>11205348
But you do over half of that yourself

>>11205255
this board is not cool. and no, reading a book will get you ridiculed. sit quietly and stare at an ereader, you'll make friends in no time.

Reading is boring as fuck, stay away

>>11205348
thanks for stopping by novalis

>>11205255
The only thing you’ll learn after reading a few books is how many people (a word I use for lack of a better term to describe the sub-human scum that dwell here) are actually pseuds on this board. So yeah, knock yourself out, you’ll be contributing about as much as everyone else.

>>11205267
This.

I was intimidated when I first started coming here because it seemed like every anon was super smart and knowledgeable about books and philosophy, but then I learned that it's all just memes and now I fit in perfectly.

I haven't read a book since high school.

>>11205255
no, just have an opinion on everything

>>11205496
No you fucker I'm not Novalis he's dead and there's no way I could live that long

>>11205292
>reading Nietzsche without having first gone through all major philosophers who came before him
Have fun being a dumb edgy nihilist with a surface-level understanding of Nietzsche's philosophy

>>11205255
reading is a waste of time, just read wiki and learn memes

>>11207560
Unironically this

>>11205255
what the fuck is a book

>>11207560
Living is a waste of time. Just get a rope or a gun and kill yourself as soon as possible.

>>11207570
The only reason to live for.

>>11207572
By reading I meant reading fiction books, that's a waste of time. Reading wiki, non fiction or a select number of philosophy books is not.

>>11207560
>reading what people actually thought is pointless, just read inaccurate summations on a platform that can be edited by highschoolers across the country

>>11207602
wikipedia is edited almost entirely by unemployed graduate students though.

>>11205255
>implying anyone here reads

>>11207602
also, actual reading defeats the point. You don't have to point a telescope at the north star to use it for navigation. You just have to have a general idea of where it's at and where you're at

>>11205348
>Leave this board and never return if any one of these apply to you:

>you rarely read nonfiction
>you rarely read poetry

i feel like i'm being torn apart

>>11207617
That is the stupidest thing I've ever heard. You either know of Polaris by way of Wiki's edits, or you've read The Almagest and know of how to calculate the distance of the arc from where you are to the equatorial pole, if you know your distance from the equator.

Wikipedia doesn't tell you these sorts of things, you fundamentally learn them by reading you absolute buffoon.

Just one

>>11207677
>wikipedia doesn't tell you these sorts of things
ya u rite
u rite

>>11207677
no shit you have to read to learn these things. I'm being partially ironic here, since really, it's great to read a whole book if you really like it. It's just a stupid mindset that the best way to become an "intellectual" is to read as many whole books as possible. New thoughts don't come from that, they come from applying small snippets of information in original ways. you can get that from wiki + formal education + good life experiences in an appropriately aesthetic environment.

>just use wikipedia
>just use sparknotes

Anybody with half a brain cell will know if you have a Wikipedia tier understanding of a book, and the only people you'll be impressing with your pseudery are other pseuds. It's almost as though none of you actually enjoy the experience of reading great literature, and just pretend to so as to appear cultured and intelligent.

>>11207773
t. pseud

>>11205267
> Most people here don't read

If this is true it is very sad

>>11205292
See nietzche is your first meme, now just learn “start with the Greeks” and “my diary desu”

>>11207876
>>11205255

>>11205348
Is it bad that I agree with everything?

>>11205348
Leave this board and never return if any one of these apply to you:
>You read (anything)
>You write
>You're in school
>You don't frogpost
>You don't use /r/eddit
>You believe in God
>You're tolerant of all races, genders and nationalities
>You post sincerely
>You refuse to employ the names and concepts of famous people you don't know or understand
>You are not a millenial
>You are not postmodernist
>You are not white
>You are not heterosexual
>You are not male
>You are not easily bored, distracted, angered, or otherwise irritated
>You don't use phrases like "Kek", "This but unironically", "kys", "books for this feel?", "faggot", "nigger", "desu", "not gonna make it", etc

That's all I got, pls contribute

>>11205255
You should read anyway, regardless of /lit/

We occasionally discuss books here, but there's a lot of shitposting.

>>11208044
I'll cut it down for you:

Leave this board

>>11205255
Nah, you're good