/lit/ - Literature

>>7156576
>He raped his sister, Phoebe.

>I didn't like the book because I didn't like one of the characters

>"Everything's relative"
>"you can skip the Greeks"
>"I'm an atheist" (hasn't read the Bible or any philosophy post-Aristotle and pre-Descartes)

>>7156576
>You're the wheel behind the wheel
>It takes all kinds to make the world
>Everybody is different
>The world needs more good country people.

"it's subjective, why should it matter when its the individual who ultimately experiences things"

>hemingway is good

>>7156643
Literally nothing wrong with this

>"I'm a spiritual person"
>"Violence is always unnecessary"
>"The economy is important for everyone"

>Nothing happened

>"ITT: things plebs say"

saying "pleb" is a sure-fire sign of someone petty and weak

>>7156672
hello reddit

>>7156684
hello nerd

>>7156672
>having any discrimination in tastes means you're petty and weak
No, I just have judgemental thoughts about people who disagree with me in certain ways that I keep to myself except for when I vent on an anonymous forum from time to time.

>>7156695
with that reasoning it's apt to be able to call you out on it, so long as both our arguments remain online, eh?

>tries to explain something they don't understand
>finished with "..or something man I dunno do you know what I mean?"
>y-yeah

>>7156576
>There is no truth
or even worse: >The truth is that there is no truth

>>7156639
>You're the wheel behind the wheel
u wot

>>7156686
E D G Y
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>>7156700

Cringe

>>7156618
>post-Aristotle and pre-Descartes philsophy

lol, it's called dark ages for a reason m8

>>7157025

>>7157036
fuck off to your church. no one gives a shit about scholasticism

>I didn't like the protagonist, so the book is bad
>The book has racists/sexists/homophobes in it, so it's bad
>The book portrays the character I don't like or disagree with as something other than a cartoon villain, so it's bad

>>7157042
The phenomenologists actually all super cared about scholasticism and late classical & medieval philosophy generally

because they were rad

>Plot is more important than prose
>Beowulf and the Odyssey were the genre fiction of their era
>Most of the classics are just fanfiction about mythological figures
>Shakespeare didn't care about art, he just wrote to make money

>I read for the prose

>What harm is it if it get kids to read?

>>7156665
>every thread on moby-dick

>>7157042
>cynicism
>stoicism
>epicureanism

>>7156650
But anon, he is.

>>7156576
>>7157240