/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18774354]

I was biking this morning and I found a pole with this text pasted onto it's side and a stack of books. I thought you guys might be able to help me understand what's going on here. Is there come common theme shared between all of these books or something?

[Anonymous No.18774359]

>>18774354
>Free books!
Don't ask question, just enjoy the free books and pass by that spot often to get more free books
You did take them, right?

[Anonymous No.18774364]

>>18774354
>come common
some common*

[Anonymous No.18774372]

>>18774359
No, I didn't. I didn't have a way to carry them. I could come back with panniers and take them tomorrow if they're still there... Isn't it immoral to steal something? I wonder who trades books at night.

[Anonymous No.18774389]

>>18774372
>Isn't it immoral to steal something?
Not stealing
>I found a pole with this text pasted onto it's side and a stack of books.
Textbook definition of Res Nullius
>In Roman law, res derelictae referred to property voluntarily abandoned by the owner.[1] The dominant strand of legal thought under the Roman Empire held it to be a form of res nullius, or "un-owned" property, but it was necessary to establish that it had been voluntarily abandoned.

It's hard to think that someone pasted a poem next to a pole, and "forgot" a whole stack of (let me count) at least 14 books. They were clearly left here intentionally, free to take for anyone interested.

[Anonymous No.18774394]

>>18774372
They're probably still there, imho. Not many people read, and even less people are eager to take abandoned/trashed books like these ("Ugh, it's gross, it has like DUST on it")
t.literally got books from trashbins

[Anonymous No.18774445]

I should go back and take at least A Room with a View/Howards End/Maurice, but I wont. I am a massive fag and I've wanted to read Maurice for some time.

[Anonymous No.18774452]

>>18774445
You should go back and take all of them like this guy said >>18774389

[Anonymous No.18774459]

read Vallejo and take the books

[Anonymous No.18774468]

All of these books look good. I want to go back and take them, but I worry about the legality/morality.

If they are still there tomorrow, surely it would be okay, but I worry they were left there for a specific trade. I respect a person who trades books by leaving them in strange locations at night, so I don't want to interfere.

[Anonymous No.18774480]

I looked up the law, I should be safe to take them. I will update when I get back.

[Anonymous No.18774481]

>>18774452
Btw, I would take even those I'm not interested in, because they're better in my home than rotting under the rain or burned by some kid with matches

[Anonymous No.18774495]

>>18774468
>but I worry they were left there for a specific trade
If this was the case (and it seems unlikely, desu) there would be a note with "Hello, dear stranger! Please, leave these books here, they are for Jim"

>but I worry about the legality/morality.
I already answered here>>18774389
In fact, some jurisdictions could consider those books "abandoning trash in unintended place/littering/something similar", and you would be actually removing a wrongdoing by taking them home with you.
Btw, once I found a "Grande Commentario Biblico" on a bench, this was clearly not abandoned (good conditions, expensive), it was forgotten (but I have to say, it's a pretty fucking large book, how the hello do you take it to the public park to read it and then forget it? It weights like 5 pounds)
I took it anyway desu

[OP No.18774640]

Well, I got them. Seems like a nice collection of books.

[Anonymous No.18774654]

>>18774640
Based.
The most interesting for me are
Four great Russian short novels (titles? I see Gambler and I can't read the rest)
Of Human Bondage
Orwell essays
Hobbit maybe

[OP No.18774680]

>>18774654
>Four great Russian short novels (titles? I see Gambler and I can't read the rest)
The others are
> First Love - Ivan Turgenev
> Master and Man - Leo Tolstoy
> The Duel - Anton Chekhov

[Anonymous No.18774687]

>>18774680
Sposibo
>> The Duel - Anton Chekhov
Didn't read this one, the others are nice

[OP No.18774694]

Oh, I forgot to say, the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald is This Side of Paradise

[Anonymous No.18774696]

>>18774640
>>18774354
It’s a socialist, unironically and not in some knee-jerk way.

[OP No.18774728]

>>18774696
Good thing I got them off the street, huh? They could have radicalized some poor kid.

[Anonymous No.18774747]

>>18774696
>>18774728
I saw Elliot in a right wing chart the other day. Never read him though.
Tolkien and Dosto aren't socialist either

[Anonymous No.18774755]

>>18774747
I’m mostly going off of the poem.

[Anonymous No.18774840]

>>18774694
Nice

[Anonymous No.18774846]

>>18774354
stack threads are getting really convoluted these days

[Anonymous No.18774868]

>>18774846