/lit/ - Literature

the yellow sports car was my favorite character, it was fully realized and well developed.

>>4856547
>not the green light

God damn Gatbsy is such an overrated book.

The pretty shirts were my favorite character

>>4856139
A bunch of rich fucks who kill each other and whine and moan about their rich lives.

>>4856595
>mfw every "artist" hippy/hipster girl likes this book

>>4856547
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>>4856604
I loved the movie, though. Amazing in almost every way.

>>4856547
>>4856576
Who's your favorite Gatsby then?
I prefer the third incarnation, when Tom and Daisy's daughter discovers the Gatsby-Cave and becomes the Great Gatsby.

>>4857832
>I loved the movie, though. Amazing in almost every way.
You have no taste.

>>4856595
>>4856604
/lit/ would even hate Nabokov if he ever got popular enough

2hip4me

I'd love to see a GR flowchart.

>>4857832
The modern adaptation? Because that hunk of shit was fucking terrible.

>>4857855
Eh. It got too confusing after the first two generations. Why do all the characters have the same fucking name? Also what was up with all the incest?

How did the person making that chart not realize after finishing it that the interpersonal relationships and connections between the characters in The Great Gatsby are not complicated enough to warrant a chart?

>>4856595
More like

>"Isn't the hopeless romantic autist so great for trying to get assholes to like him?"

>>4858019
I wanted to know more about that ship they found in the mountains

>>4858039
Except you're not supposed to think Gatsby is great. You're not supposed to think anyone in the book is great. Nick is probably the only character that was supposed to even approach being likeable, and maybe George Wilson too. How do you faggots miss the point this hard?

>>4858052
Nick is just there to narrate. Gatsby is supposed to be admired for having traditional ideals in spite of a changing world. It's apostolic; he's the Don Quixote of the 1920s

>>4858069
Gatsby is supposed to be reviled for being an obsessive, controlling deceiver whose exorbitant wealth fuels nothing but shallow, empty pursuits that could only be gained by building a fanciful, idealistic world around a falsified persona.

>>4858026
kek

OP Here, great job /lit/. All I wanted to do was start a humor or relevant image thread... but nope... back to the same arguing....

>>4858086
I thought Nick was supposed to be reviled for being a sarcastic, jaded antihero who tastes a little bit of the American Dream then quickly steps away into the comforting embrace of the belief of nothing.

>>4858099
aight. dumping what I have. It's pretty much the same old shit everybody else on this board has seen a million times

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>>4858153
I feel like making some OC. probs gonna hit the photoshop after this dump

>>4858157

>not recognizing the great gatsby as a single, yet complex, biblical allusion

I am surrounded by plebeians.

>>4858160
Everything is a biblical allusion.

>>4858164
What about the Bible?

>>4858167
except for the bible of course. The bible is, however, an allegory for the Code of Hammurabi

>>4858167

Especially the bible.

>>4858172
I would also like everyone to appreciate the fact that I spelled Hammurabi correctly on my first try without even looking it up beforehand. Worship me.

Love me.

>>4858177

>>4858182
Didn't you plebs get the memo? Socrates was just a fig newton of Plato's imagination

>>4858186
this is the best /lit/ greentext I've ever read, in all likelihood

>>4858193

>>4858196
All joking aside, I'm glad mods have started killing anti-natalist threads on sight.

I'm sure there's some meaningful discussion to be had about anti-natalism

>>4858200
just not on /lit/

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>>4858202
anybody have the full set of these?

>>4858205
not really too big a fan of other boards, but god damn some of those kids can write

>>4858214
anybody lurking?

>>4858012
I made the comment about artist chicks. I have never even read this book, it is an observation. Stay mad.

>>4858214
For some reason I always read this as if the narrator is Christopher Hitchens

>>4858220
yes, me

>>4858225
that's embarrassing.

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>>4858271
philosophy man

>>4858274

>>4856576
Please dull your edge. Maybe you'll be able to appreciate it once you do.

>>4858282

>>4858287
I'm pretty sure he was joking

>>4858297

>>4858263
>Pointing out a bunch of vapid whores like the book is somehow embarrassing

Do you just go into auto-shitpost mode when something you like is criticized in even a slight manner? Go back to reddit.

>>4858303
you're far more angry about this than you have any right to be.

I would rise to the argument, but I'm too busy dumping a bunch of slightly humorous /lit/ pics for the one other person in this thread

>>4858325
meant for >>4858305

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>>4858345
aight I'm gonna go do something productive with my time

You guys are some seriously sexually frustrated losers.

>>4858349
Well I mean, we're kinda on the internet.

>>4858349
Look out everybody he's really bringing the heat!

>>4858352
I don't believe you are any less sexually frustrated when you aren't.

>>4858349
that's not what your mom said last night

>>4858086
What? The book does all it can to make you sympathise with Gatsby

>>4858373
I never met my mother is she nice? She sounds like she has bad taste in men. Possibly women? Well she's an adult I wouldn't try to control her.

here

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>>4856576
>great american novel
>metaphor that fucking heavy handed

>>4858451

>>4858459
i have to go now

>>4858455
>things should be judged by their complexity

Not everything has to be convoluted

>>4858186
this is actually how I feel about the republic. I kek'd

>>4858214
This one always made me feel uncomfortable and a little nervous about the future

>>4858214
Haha holy shit this is actually upsetting me a little bit and I have nothing but raised eyebrows for that whole "sex with my anime wife-fu on muh VR" crowd. They idea of monetizing your orgasm is just too plausible.

>>4858153
I agree with this and find no humor in it

posting anything in my pictures folder that loosk lit related

>>4858016
Not a full character chart, but see pic

I once saw a GR chart over my friend's shoulder when he was browsing Russian 4chan's equivalent of /lit/, but it was in Russian and all that

>>4858160

Incredibly reductive. You're the plebeian.

>>4858781

>>4858463
>i have to go now

Good, none of those were funny.

>>4858781
>Pastae
Loss of immersion/10, try harder.

>>4858157
>God exists

>>4858370
I'm saying that to be expected on the internet. lrn2comprehension

>>4858186
My favorite /lit/ greentext

>>4858186

Op here, and I actually laughed at this, a lot. Thank you.

>>4857832

The Great Gatsby will never be successfully adapted to film. The book is famous for its prose, but that doesn't translate well to spoken lines. There is heavy internal monologue, and that doesn't translate well to film. None of it is particularily filmable: there are no action sequences, and dozens of moments of inaudible introspection separating them. The ending isn't happy, and even though it is tragedy, it's anticlimax: Gatsby;'s dead, everything was pointless including his death, BOATS AGAINST THE WIND AMIRITE GUYS?

It'll never be filmed successfully.

>>4858792
here are a few more

>>4860728

what.

>>4860283
Like I said a bunch of rich fucks kill one another. What a timeless plot.

>>4858271
> mfw that comic was a response to one of my posts

That was a fun thread.

>>4860728
/r/ing that one that starts with two kids looking above a wall and finishing with the Stirgeon

>>4858397
>be the person who wrote "not sure in general"
>feel vaguely famous and validated every time this is posted
what have i become

>>4860954
i dont have that one sorry

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>>4858455
Yeah you don't get it. I don't have the text in front of me, but it's Gatsby who see's these symbols and puts weight into them, not Nick. Nick believes that this is ultimately Gatsby's downfall. Maybe if you studied it past an 11th grade level you'd get more out of it?

"Gatsby believed in the green light, the orgastic future that year by year recedes before us. It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms farther. . . .

The "believed" is the important part.

>>4861098

my waifu

>>4858200
>mods have started killing anti-natalist threads on sight.
best news I've heard all day.

>>4861114

>censorship is good

>your rights end where my feelings begin

>>4861119
>Implying there aren't some toxic ideas that impede meaningful thought
>Implying that standardization of the public space isn't prerequisite for sustainable communication

>>4858160
>thinking gatsby's being a biblical allusion makes it good.

>>4858153
The best part is that's what Hegel actually believed.

>>4861114
It would be better for those threads if they were never born.

>>4858159
Now, this is pure Kant in all his glory.

>>4858444
It would be funnier if there was added the part where he commits sudoku.

>>4858781
>Greeks=Romans
Plebshit.

>>4857832
shitty tripfag detected

>>4858193
I've saved that as well. Cheers

>>4861064
God I love Bakunin

bump.

>>4861163
kek

slightly relevant

>>4858147
>>4858153
what's funny about these

>>4861398
to be fair, even Stirner knew that.

>>4858432
>young dasein

>>4858138
this
nick is a scumbag
although, its through his narratorial intrusion that we are made to like gatsby
is somebody a scumbag likes somebody we should like?

>>4858785
>zizek actually doing philosophy for once in his goddamn life instead of ranting about stalin and films he likes

>>4860892
Yes it was. This one's actually my facebook banner.

>>4858200
>All joking aside, I'm glad mods have started killing anti-natalist threads on sight.

Anti-natalist genocide best day of their lives

>>4858282
why has this been edited to make hemingway have a lazy eye like sartre

>>4860978
a bigger faggot

>>4860954
do you mean this?
am I late?

>>4858418
Oh god, I lost it.

>>4856139
>needed a character map for a short novel with so few characters
>humor thread
i really hope it's a joke.

>>4857832
continue to trip so I can filter you

chudith putler

>>4865356
But he didn't piss off Engels, Engels liked the book.

>>4858376
Gatsby is supposed to seem attractive to anyone who knows him despite of being an enormous douchebag. Even to the reader.
How can you people miss the point this badly?

>>4869117
I wouldn't call him a douchebag, but just reading his discussion with Daisy's husband about her is just...

He's the kind of guy that follows his path,no matter what. And that's not actually good in most ways.

>>4861042
What painting is dis

>>4869474
>filename
>but without "Kink"

>>4864463
YEEEEEEEEES thank you anon

>>4869489
ops my bad

>>4858297
>megan boyle | clams

>>4858680
if I may ask, what is this Russian 4chan, and what is its /lit/ equivalent?

>>4858186
Should I start with 'Conversations with Socrates' or 'The Republic'?

>>4857978

The movie version from the 1970's was pretty good. The new DeCaprio version sucks though.

>>4863424

They are meaningless statements that people actually find impactful.

>>4870023
http://sibirchan.ru/lit/
there are more, but i cant remember names, they get blocked by putain pretty often