/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.11317186]

MY DUDE I FUCKIN LOVE CLASSIC LITERATURE

[Anonymous No.11317191]

>>11317186
That's very nice. People are so quick to forget about the past these days

[Anonymous No.11317197]

xD

[Anonymous No.11317205]

>>11317186
The propagation of mass literacy a mistake.

>It is of little matter whether many peasants know how to read and listen no longer to their cure, but it is of great matter that many men like Renan or Littre should be able to live and be listened to! Our safety is now only in a legitimate aristocracy, I mean by that, a majority that is composed of more than mere numbers.

--- Flaubert

[Anonymous No.11317206]

>tfw having genuine enthusiasm for something is now presumed to be stupid or foolish, and the assumption is always that you're either a moron or being ironic

Is real life becoming like this too, or is it only on the internet? I don't get out much.

[Anonymous No.11317212]

>>11317197
xO <white male authors r gud!!!!)

[Anonymous No.11317213]

>>11317206
pretty much only here on 4chan.

[Anonymous No.11317219]

>>11317186
>I FUCKING LOVE MARCUSE

[Anonymous No.11317221]

>>11317205
>everyone is dumb but me and my friends
>flawedbear

[Anonymous No.11317407]

>>11317219
I wonder how this dude's life is going. How are people treating him in everyday interactions? Is he at peace, or maybe even happy?
Maybe he was a successful model once, when he posed for this photo, but how did he live before that, and how did he live afterwards? We automatically assume that he's happy because he has good looks, but for all we know, he may be undergoing a divorce now, drowning his sadness and disappointment in alcohol, thinking how unpredictable and irrational the human fate is.
For us, he will remain Someone Else, we will never really know what is lurking behind the photo, behind the skin, inside that skull, what he has seen and felt, and what other people have seen and felt of him. For us, he will remain to be only that sexy-ass Marcuse-loving motherfucker. God, I want him to tear my boypussy apart with his massive alpha cock.

[Anonymous No.11317427]

>>11317205

And you think someone who spends his time posting Flaubert quotes on a Cambodian backgammon board would be a part of that aristocracy?

[Anonymous No.11317450]

>DUDE! I fucking LOVE HENRY JAMES!

[Anonymous No.11318367]

>>11317206
get out of here dfw

[Anonymous No.11318573]

>>11317206
it's not genuine enthusiasm you moron

[Anonymous No.11320276]

>>11317221
>Implying he was actually wrong

[Anonymous No.11321161]

>>11317186
Soibois only care about modern genre fiction and you know it. They're reading Stephen King, J.K. Rowling, and Ernest Cline. They think pre-1930 literature is boring and problematic. Stop acting retarded for easy (You)s.

[Anonymous No.11321198]

>>11317206
/lit/ is full of failures that can't cope with people having genuine passion for something. By calling them onions they feel happy for a few seconds in their miserable lifes.

[Anonymous No.11321337]

>>11317186
Why does everyone on 4chan care so much about what basedboys think/do? Seems more pathetic than being one in the first place.

[Anonymous No.11321354]

>>11317186
actually this guy is probably the exact opposite, what >>11321161 described

[Anonymous No.11321358]

>>11321161
>he thinks sois exist
>tells people to stop making stuff up

[Anonymous No.11321363]

>tfw I would unironically say that

[Anonymous No.11321381]

>>11317186
MY DUDE WE TOO

[Anonymous No.11321409]

[Anonymous No.11321415]

>>11321381
Those pics always remind me I can't be a real basedboy, because I have terrible teeth.

[Anonymous No.11321419]

>>11321358
Anon, have you ever visited twitter? Soibois exist.

[Anonymous No.11321421]

>Muh traditions and classics!

[Anonymous No.11321445]

>muh soiboy memes

[Anonymous No.11321451]

>>11321445
t.soi

[Anonymous No.11321460]

>>11321421
I repeat, soibois are reading modern genre fiction.

[Anonymous No.11321464]

>>11321460
You're soi as fuck dude.

[Anonymous No.11321471]

>>11321464
No you, soiboi. Go back to reading the latest Chuck Wendig novel.

[Anonymous No.11321483]

>>11321471
Have no idea who that is, my soi friend.

[Anonymous No.11321491]

tfw no SÖYBOI bf

[Anonymous No.11321499]

>>11321483
Stop lying, soiboi.

[Anonymous No.11321506]

>>11321499
I'm not lying, soiboi. I don't read books.

[Anonymous No.11321530]

>>11321506
>I don't read books.
That explains everything.

[Anonymous No.11321537]

>>11321530
reading is not an intelkigent way of relaxing. your posturing is meaningless to me, i could not care less what your iq was or wat u read in your free time. all that matters is that reading is deleterious to creativity and encourages poor posture and improper breathing/circulation and relationship with the world. You’re ignorant of the things worth understanding and a vicious nitwit almost entirely unprovoked yet as rabid as any 100 iq insect on this board. Go read, you’re an idiot for reading outside of when its necessary. That you read more just shows a lack of self awareness or impulse control, that anyone reads most than 2 hours a day is a sign that the literati are degenerate overhealthed arthropods. Its a waste of time, one should be with friends, women or one’s thoughts not engulfed in fantasy or worse other men’s ideas. Nothing ive said comes from others, its always disgusted me that people read for pleasure or play vidya for hours on end or use snapchat or discord or take social media as a legitimate pass time. you have no idea what it is you know or believe and are reacting purely defensive, inference based, reactions. no first principles, no basic mode of dealing with people, i said its low iq, because doing math proofs (another bug activity) or working on a home project (do-nothing slave work) is more productive than continuing to read past the point of necessity. im only here because this board bullies /pol/ and keeps the anime swarm at bay, if there was a different board divorced from literature without such a slow pace, like /his/, then id move there. literature is horrible for the mind, the people ive met who engage with it the most are incompetent philosophically and debased spiritually. You seem like you’re: contenptuous of others, a poor judge of character, spiteful that people might not share your interests, moody, incapable of tempering your aggression, vindictive, arrogant, self-deluded and more than anything, probably a bore, since all you do is read unless you were posturing and your free time isn’t more reading and you just said that because you’re really a 130 iq upper midwit whose LARPing. Regardless, you seem like a petulant childish fag

[Anonymous No.11321539]

>>11321506
Why come to a board that's centered around something you don't care about? I've never gotten that. I didn't start regularly posting on here until I got back into reading. For years I stuck to /tv/ and /mu/.

[Anonymous No.11321542]

>>11321539
im only here because this board bullies /pol/ and keeps the anime swarm at bay, if there was a different board divorced from literature without such a slow pace, like /his/, then id move there. literature is horrible for the mind, the people ive met who engage with it the most are incompetent philosophically and debased spiritually.

[Anonymous No.11321552]

>>11321537
Damn son, that's a ton of projection and rage. Keep crying, brainlet.

[Anonymous No.11321558]

>>11321415
Same, and I don’t have friends and I also don’t take pictures. Well... such is the life of a 23yo shut in virgin

[Anonymous No.11321580]

>>11321537
>it's another /pol/ pretends to be intelligent episode

[Anonymous No.11321610]

>>11321537
You know where are you, right? You're either baiting or don't have any self-awareness whatsoever. Shitposting on 4chan is a bigger waste of time and more detrimental to your relationship with the world than reading literature. You can't babble about how "one should be with friends, women or one’s thoughts not engulfed in fantasy or worse other men’s ideas," while posting on here.

[Anonymous No.11321625]

>>11321610
>triggered

[Anonymous No.11321807]

>>11321625
You posted a massive paragraph of rage and I'm the one who's triggered? Kek, take a look in a mirror.

[Anonymous No.11321844]

basedboys are reading harry potter though

[Anonymous No.11322552]

>basedboys dont read my special secret books, they only read bad books

Classical literature isn't something only /lit/ reads