/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.15878764]

we need to think more about the crops

[Anonymous No.15878835]

>>15878764
the crops, the small farmers

[Anonymous No.15878854]

>>15878835
what about our connection to the laaand

[Anonymous No.15878863]

>>15878854
a healthy farm

[Anonymous No.15879077]

>>15878863
basedbeans

[Anonymous No.15879104]

>>15878764
Fuck yes boys it’s Wendell time

[Anonymous No.15879115]

>>15878764
The mind that is not baffled is not employed. The impeded stream is the one that sings.

[Anonymous No.15879139]

Pretty much your old fashioned "muh small town" "muh community" shit that assumes too much good in people.
I grew up in a rural small town type of place in America and I wouldn't trust 99% of them to feed my cat let alone cooperate with them on agrarian practices and a shared lifestyle, community rituals, shared responsibilities. A bunch of fucking drug addicts and scammers on government welfare whenever they could get it.
And the "pillars of the community" that Wendell Berry would have loved, the people who most put on the act that he and other "muh small town" types are so into, were by and large secretly into shady shit, child molesters, pastors fucking women (and men) in their congregation, corrupt businessmen, that sort of thing.
It's all so tiresome and I wouldn't mind if the whole place was gutted and made a national park and all the people driven out. Fuck 'em and fuck small towns and all that shit.

[Anonymous No.15879301]

>>15879139
shhh... do you hear the sound of organic farming

[Anonymous No.15879322]

>>15879301
horses fertilizing fields

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.15879325]

Based beans

[Anonymous No.15879329]

>>15879139
you are a pessimist with a Shitty modern poisoned small town. move to mine.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.15879351]

>>15879139
So do you see the quality of people that capitalism turns out?

[Anonymous No.15879353]

>>15879325
Butterfly gets a lot of hate, but I looked up the /lit/ archive, and you're the only one who occasionally mentions Alexander Herzen.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.15879363]

>>15879329
>move to mine.
Transforming it would be better
More difficult in some places, but better.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.15879380]

>>15879353
Oh yeah. He’s a good read. I stopped talking about him because there was no interest. I’m sure the fiction writers of Russia are very good, but I was drawn the Herzen

[Anonymous No.15879406]

>>15879380
I've read My Past and Thought in combination with War and Peace. I loved his writing style and his character.

My version did miss the parts about the relationship with his wife. I'll read it separately once I'm in the mood for it.

[Anonymous No.15879434]

>>15879351
free pdf/epbu of pic related? I'm interested

[Anonymous No.15879462]

>farming

[Anonymous No.15879475]

>>15879434
nevermind, found it

[Anonymous No.15879480]

>>15879363
eh.. rather not be that explict about it. this kind of program almost always attract really shitty hippy posers.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.15879483]

>>15879434
I haven’t looked yet. Just read it in reference and it sounded good

>>15879406
Same here. Was it a plain yellow paperback?

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.15879496]

>>15879480
The point of it is to attract the locals of anyplace. And eventually everyone from there as it would be beneficial to all. Don’t turn anyone away unless you know they’re an agent provocateur/spy

[Anonymous No.15879530]

>>15879483
nah, but the torrent description advertised the longer version, the file was the shorter one

[Anonymous No.15879540]

>the land

[Anonymous No.15879640]

Don't forget folks, the place where you're supposed to use your education is called "your career."

[Anonymous No.15879679]

>>15878764
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>>15878863
>>15879077
kek

[Anonymous No.15879701]

Anyone remember the fraternal oats meme? Those were happier times.

[« Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ » !!oI3er5KKetj No.15879769]

>>15879530
Yeah, that’s the abridgment I have

>>15879701
I remember the corn father meme

[Anonymous No.15880124]

>the amish

[\˚ㄥ˚\ !!gqyesdiiDOD No.15880140]

>>15879325
just finished this baby - have you read Holmgren's Permaculture?

[Anonymous No.15880204]

did you just say that we can't go back to horse powered farming

[Anonymous No.15880221]

>>15879077

[Anonymous No.15880241]

>>15880221
Who's going to shop this shit? I've got things I should be doing.

[Anonymous No.15880317]

I thought this was pretty decent, are his other books worth reading or is it the same thing every time?

[Anonymous No.15880362]

>>15880317
I have no idea honestly, most of the things I wrote in this thread I have from "The Unsettling of America", which I really liked. I've been reading it yesterday and today, finishing it right now, and all I can think about are those fields.

Thinking about picking up the essay collection Sex, Economy, Freedom & Community, so you can try to pick one of those to see if he talks about anything else than those fields.

[Anonymous No.15880407]

they are using those chemical fertilizers again

[Anonymous No.15880510]

Blessed thread.

[Anonymous No.15880582]

I love his poetry but I've never read a novel by him. Any good?

[Anonymous No.15880593]

>>15880582
according to this guy >>15880317 it's decent

[Anonymous No.15881120]

the book was nice, I can't really say a bad word about it or the man who has written it, it's not even terribly long, only 230 pages, independent of the theme of the book, generally, he has a solid mindset and way of thinking

[Anonymous No.15881179]

imagine not tending to your corps or not walking down your farm out of pure curiosity rather than business interest

[Anonymous No.15881818]

>>15879139
Read Coming Apart. Things haven't always been this way.