/lit/ - Literature

>>18200067
What does that pic even mean?

“Ograbme” is embargo spelled backwards
(D—n = Damn)

Taxes too high, is what it’s getting at

>>18200291
Thank you for the explanation, cunt!

>>18200313

>>18200291
truly you are an intellectual giant of our times
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xECUrlnXCqk

>>18200067
Why'd they censor "darn"?

>>18201123
Truly, nothing has changed.

>>18201123
literally chad vs incel meme holy shit

>>18202347
It’s “damn” and they did that quite often in the Anglosphere before WWI I think. Whenever you read transcripts of speeches from back then you always see “d—n”, which was the equivalent of their “fuck” back then (or rather “f***)

>>18202556
CLEAN UP THE POO POO

>>18200260
Read the filename. Ograbme is embargo.

>>18201123
The right one is literally a soijack lmao

>>18201123
Lmfao

>>18201123

>>18200260
t. hasn't taken APUSH

>>18200313
>>18200508
Source of the cover artist?

>>18201123

>>18200291
They were lower for colonists than for people living in England.

most literary too

>>18200291
>>18202681
That cartoon is from 1807, about embargoes we had to try to keep us out of what would become the war of 1812 lol

>>18202681
Yup. Should have revolted

>>18202628
Arthur de Pins

>>18200067
This is about william jennings bryan but it wouldn't look out of place on /pol/

>>18201123
Based leftist physiognamists. Wonder if they kept phrenologists on retainer

>>18202628
Arthur de Pins, if I'm not mistaken

>>18202628
Modigliani

>>18202692
lmfao

>>18202701
Thanks

>>18202701
Ya, but It didn't have jack to do with taxes, it was about the crown paying the governor rather than than the local legislatures. Taxes was just a propoganda complaint that common people could understand.

>>18202692
>Killing Lincoln between Kolmogorov and Nietzche
I am dying. This is gold

>>18202618
Good work Anon.

>>18200291
>>18200508
>>18202701
Surprised you haven't posted this

>>18202561
>>18202347
What a "swear word" is varies greatly throughout history. Up until relatively recently things of a scatological or urological nature were fine, and words like piss or shit were just common words to refer to bodily functions. At the time the comic was written, the big no-no words all involved religious stuff. "Zounds" is ultimately a contraction of "God's Wounds", for example. "Damn" refers to wishing God send someone to hell, "Jesus Christ" invokes, well, Jesus, so on and so forth. It's only with the increasing secularization of the Anglosphere that we've moved away from this.

Compare this with, for example, the Norse (and by association, all pre-Christian Germanic peoples), where simple biological functions were completely fine to talk about so you'd literally talk about pissing, shitting, and fucking in public with no problem because, hey, that's literally how to refer to these concepts. There's all sorts of references to shit and piss and fucking in the Eddas, for example (at one point Thor doesn't want to cross a river because he doesn't want to get his penis wet). Talking about religion was fine, but offending the Gods was a grave taboo (so badmouthing Thor was fine as long as he couldn't hear it, however the fuck that works). The gravest taboo of all was to insinuate a man was a homosexual or that a woman was a slut (and therefore unwomanly). Both accusations lead to duels to the death. Women could divorce their men for walking around with their shirts unbuttoned, and men could divorce their women for wearing trousers.

In Ancient Rome, the most heinous thing that you could call a woman was a "tribas", a horrid she-dyke monster with a tiny cunt and a massively distended clit. Tribades would stalk the land at night, looking for other women to assrape, as they could only get off by befouling other women. The interesting thing here isn't that the Romans thought that female sexuality was bad (like Germanics did, and really still do), but rather that a woman should only be sexual in specific ways (a woman being very receptive to others was fine, but a woman forcing herself upon others was looked down upon)

>>18201123
theres nothing new under the sun, indeed
Windsor McCay is king

>>18202769
This is just feudalism with a bag of money on top.

>>18201123
Progressives today would cancel this for being physiophobic or something

>>18202561
Yes I'm aware, I was making a silly joke to bump the thread

>>18202556
KEK, imagine the smell

one struggle

>>18203280
>not posting Crumb's best

>>18203229
Are Arabs native to Israel?

>>18203615
Nope, they were brought by the turks to build the railroad

The Road to Success

>>18202618
>beats both
kek

>>18202796
Very interesting post. Thank you.

>>18202796
>Women could divorce their men for walking around with their shirts unbuttoned, and men could divorce their women for wearing trousers.
Literally made up bullshit lmao

>>18202723
Fair enough.
>>18202695
Ah! Right right.

>>18201114
actually based

>>18203842
Us at Hotel Know It All

>>18206492
Me not making it past the pit of illiteracy—I had to dictate this post to my designated 4chan-typist

>>18206681
>mfw no 4chan-typist

Clearly I need to read the Morning Leader. Wait..

>on /lit/
>illiterate

You use audiobooks?

>>18201118
First basedjak ever ?