/lit/ - Literature

I'm pretty average looking and reasonably fit. Mind you I never go outside and I have little human contact outside of 4chan because books are more important, so it doesn't matter.

I read. It doesn't take up that much in the way of time or resources.
The average person is perfectly capable of keeping up beauty routines and exercising and reading.

This thread is now about good-looking writers.

Not commanding it. Just calling it.

>>3123399

Look at this aristocratic hunk right here. This sexy motherfucker wrote a postmodern novel 150 years before there was even modernism, too.

>>3123417

>>3123421
150 years?

That's pretty good I guess.

She's hideous now, but I would've smashed this back in the day.

>>3123399
>not good-looking but someone compares me to a second jesus

Is the dude in OP's picture supposed to be good looking or something? Because no.

>>3123432
Fuck, who put Ruggles in a dress

>>3123427
>implying Sterne didn't build on his work through critique in the same way postmodernism builds on modernism
Quixote is a prototype of modernist work. Tristram Shandy has all of the characteristics we think of when discussing postmodern work.

>>3123432
I'd eat her Oate meal if you know what I mean

>>3123383
Nah.
I'm actually pretty good looking and I do stuff that good looking people do like going to cool clubs.

>>3123436

Are you a woman?

If you are, please kill yourself. You are clearly defective.

Are you a man?

Restrain your jelly.

>>3123444
I would beg to differ, but no one actually knows what post-modernism is, so there's really not much point.

>>3123432
Not hideous, but I imagine I'll still get hated on for being completely enamored with Elif Shafak.

Pre-ordered her complete poems a couple of months ago. Should arrive later this month.

>>3123450

>dat forehead
>dat fucked up eye
>dat dat ugly expression

Don't be a cunt, OP.

>>3123461

Keeping hating faggot

>>3123454
Oh come on people know it.

It's the condition of skepticism towards grand narratives. It's not difficult.

>>3123463
K

>>3123464
That's pretty much the vaguest quality imaginable.

>>3123454
>but no one actually knows what post-modernism is
>Tristram Shandy has all of the characteristics... postmodern work.
Well, just talking postmodern fiction here, but I'd start with use of pastiche from outside sources with ironic intent (the distortion of modernism's allusion, reference, and metafiction), criticism of ontological questioning (as opposed to modernism's criticism of ontological questions), subversion/inversion of theme without resolution (as opposed to modernist works where subversion is resolved or reverted), and of course fragmented narrative as basis for narrative instead of metanarrative. There are various others, but I'd argue these ones are probably the obvious or core points.
Don Quixote can be argued to contain the last one, but none of the rest, although the parenthetical points, I think you'll agree, would apply to most interpretations.

Differ away.

The pinnacle of masculinity.

>>3123483

Enjoy your kamikaze faggot

>>3123383

I run 4km per day, three times per weak.

>>3123483
I wonder if Mishima is like a joke in Japan, like, "Remember that fucking idiot that tried to start a revolution or whatever and then committed suicide?"
"Yeah, what a fucking nutcase."
Like the way people make fun of Charlie Manson or something.

>>3123483
It looks like he sliced out his nipples

>>3123500
He had a lot of popular support, from what I understand. Even from the Imperial family? I may be remembering that wrong.

No. Tonight I ran around a pair of football fields for 45 minutes. Tomorrow morning I'm going to the gym at 7am to do squats, power cleans, chin-ups and bench press.

>>3123509
No you don't remember wrongly and also had a lot of support from the military.

Anyway he is reminded proudly in Japan since he is universally considered one of their finest national writers.

>>3123467
No it's not vague. It's very precise. What are you talking about?

It's basically saying: I don't have a privileged access to the totality of knowledge.

I actually played Division 2 college football.

I enjoy exercise.

running and lifting, reading in the evenings here

think of sophocles getting huge in the gym.

>>3123523
You 'clarified' that vague statement with an even vaguer statement. Good job.

>>3123531
Ok ask me what you don't understand about it and I'll explain it.

Unless you are a fan of analytic philosophy, than it's not vague, it means that you are just ignorant.

>>3123534
So you say that for a work to be postmodern, it simply means that it contains skepticism towards grand narratives. And the author don't claim privileged access to knowledge. OK.

What does that even mean? How are you supposed to quantify those qualities and accurately read them in a work? You could easily say that both those qualities apply to Don Quixote, because they could pretty much mean anything. I don't see how either of those qualities are in any way precise.

>>3123531
Or let me formalize it for you.
Does not exist an interpretation Omega so that for any fact F capable of being expressed in a language L, it can be decided whether it's true or false.

>>3123555
Ops I wrote it wrong.

I meant to say "for every fact F" that is "there is at least one fact that cannot be decided".

>>3123500
They're a little embarrassed about his actions because foreigners might get the wrong idea. I'm not sure how they reacted to his WWII-style nationalism in itself, but it was 1970; they'd largely put those ideas behind them, so it must've seemed either Quixotic or dangerously retrograde. He's still recognised as one of their greatest writers, though.

>>3123509
I'm fairly sure the Imperial family try to keep their distance from politics.

Neil Gaiman may not be hot in the traditional sense of the word, but I think he was absolutely adorable when he was younger.

>>3123581

>>>/co/
>>>/hm/

>>3123436

Second.

I love /lit/ in the fact that instead of allowing themselves to be trolled, they roll with it and create a productive thread out of it.

>>3123779
Instead of getting worked up, why not just troll with it once in a while?

>>3123436
Third