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>> No.14255732

Because it's fun? Joyless, humorless fucks need to get out.

>> No.14255771

>>14255557
Aesop’s tales are childish and foolish because foxes and wolves talk.

Yet in the Bible a snake and a donkey talk and adults are supposed to take it seriously. No, “deep” even!

>> No.14255778

You can learn from all type of characters and situations, opposed to tedious psychological analyses. Also, please refrain from making such poor, useless threads that have been made constantly over the last months.

>> No.14255787

Most people don't read fiction, so you're in the consensus. Why do I read fiction? I enjoy reading fiction and writing fiction. There's no grandiose reason for anything. If you feel it's pointless then don't read it. I personally find most non-fiction and self-help worthless drivel.

>> No.14255877

>>14255732
>fun
get out

>> No.14255884
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>>14255557
>stop reading fiction; life should be characterized by reading dry academic books and studying textbooks

>> No.14255951

Source?

>> No.14256238
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>>14255557
> in these young hopefuls you have the enlightened rationalists of the future

>> No.14256248

>>14255557
for literary sensibility

>> No.14256468

>>14255557
I think, in this passage, "enlightened rationalists" is used as an insult.

>> No.14256477

>>14256468
More hope than think.

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>>14255884
>life should be characterized by reading dry academic books and studying textbooks
youre saying its not supposed to be this way?

>> No.14256588

To cope with loneliness/social alienation

>> No.14256605
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>>14255732
>fun

>> No.14256641

Why not?

>> No.14256970

>>14255557
I'm quite sure this is a critique of """enlightened Rationalists""" by pointing out how they miss the point of the tales by focusing on the obviously incorrect aspects rather than the possible lessons that could be gained from them. This could be compared to how an athiest will cry about how a "sky wizard" makes no sense while ignoring the plenty lessons presented within the bible or dismissing the idea that believing in such a wizard could help a person cope with reality (though God isn't necessarily as inconceivable in the same way a talking animal is)

>> No.14256977

>>14255771
congratulations, you're half-way to understanding the point of that image

>> No.14257859
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14257859

Gravity's Rainbow is lit

>> No.14257870

Because I write fiction

>> No.14257958

>>14256970
This; why do you fucking niggers have such a hard time with understanding fiction and it's purpose

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14257967

>why read fiction
>proceeds to read dry philosophy with flat fictional allegories

>> No.14257983

>>14255951
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/A_Few_Parables
second to last one