/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.6040201]

>"You mean there's a catch?"
>"Sure there's a catch", Doc Daneeka replied. >"Catch-22. Anyone who wants to get out of combat duty isn't really crazy."
>There was only one catch and that was Catch-22
Really Joseph Heller? Jesus christ.

[Anonymous No.6040494]

>>6040201
so then what were catches 1-21???

[Anonymous No.6040668]

>At last I truly see, my life was The Odyssey

wow way to go homer fuckin hack

[Anonymous No.6040672]

>>6040201
>Literally no mention of catches past 22
Really Joseph Heller? Holy mary.

[Anonymous No.6040681]

>The brown current ran swiftly out of the heart of darkness, bearing us down towards the sea with twice the speed of our upward progress.
Really Joseph Conrad? Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim

[Anonymous No.6040893]

>Ahab felt so raped and violated after he was entered by the walrus' majestically sized penis, the Moby Dick
Seriously Melville?

[Anonymous No.6040911]

>>6040201
>When we want to give expression to a dramatic situation in our lives, we tend to use metaphors of heaviness. We say that something has become a great burden to us. We either bear the burden or fail and go down with it, we struggle with it, win or lose. And Sabina - what had come over her? Nothing. She had left a man because she felt like leaving him. Had he persecuted her? Had he tried to take revenge on her? No. Her drama was a drama not of heaviness but of lightness. What fell to her lot was not the burden, but the unbearable lightness of being.
Kundera pls

[Anonymous No.6040924]

>Finally Natasha, we have lived through War and Peace

[Anonymous No.6041048]

>On his way home, Deckard looked at his sunken eyes in the rear view mirror, suddenly remembering the horrid bestiality of a wet dream that had torn him from sleep the previous night. All he could salvage from the fading vision was a question: Do androids dream of fucking electric sheep?

Whoa Phil, hold up

[Anonymous No.6041059]

>>6040681
He uses it like 3 or 4 times.
The Road triggered the shit out of me though, they say it every other page.

[Anonymous No.6041172]

>Judge shouted. We did it, we reached blood meridian.

BRAVO CORMAC

[Anonymous No.6041227]

>>6041048

Her truly was ahead of his time.

[Anonymous No.6041241]

>And for the rest of his days Monsieur Swann was in search of lost time.

Proust, you absolute madman!

[Anonymous No.6041254]

>I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of Infinite Jest

Really DFW? Really?

[Anonymous No.6041258]

>All that most maddens and torments; all that stirs up the lees of things; all truth with malice in it; all that cracks the sinews and cakes the brain; all the subtle demonisms of life and thought; all evil, to crazy Ahab, were visibly personified, and made practically assailable in Moby Dick.

Herman, this is a joke, right?!

[Anonymous No.6041282]

>A screaming came over the hill.
>He turned to see his faithful golliwog companion Jo-Jo stumbling and pointing frantically at the sky behind him.
>What is it, Jo-Jo?
>I sawed it inna sky missuh Slothrop, I sawed it!
>Slothrop froze, his mouth agape. Could it be?
>We finally founded it missuh Slothrop, THE GRAVITY'S RAINBOW!

No amount of drugs can excuse this.

[Anonymous No.6041283]

>>6040201
I want /tv/ to leave.

[Anonymous No.6041290]

>>6041283
This meme was okay when people actually understood it and stuck to the "truly in the end when you really think about it we really all were infinite jest afterall" format. Everything ITT for the most part is tryhard and autistic.

[Anonymous No.6041293]

>>6041254

[Anonymous No.6041295]

>>6041283
>>6041290

[Anonymous No.6041356]

>May 27, 1999 at 4:07 PM UTC -- 54 hours, 52 minutes remaining.
>Knuckles glides north 1500 feet above lake Sakakawea at 800 mph following highway 83. A small thunderstorm is somewhat visible to the south.
>the sky is 3/8 scattered with cirrus clouds and 1/8 scattered with altostratus clouds.
>The wind is 15 mph with gusts to 20 mph.

really Nick Smith?

It's not bad actually

[Anonymous No.6041404]

>>6041295
>This is just autistic, it's not funny and you're trying too hard
>LOL LE NO FUN ALLOWED MAYMAY

Holy fuck I wish I wasn't addicted to this shithole

[Anonymous No.6041430]

>>6041404
>get up in the morning covered in crusty semen
>squint at computer screen
>refresh /lit/
>thread full of jokes I don't find funny
>hrumph! *calls posts in the thread tryhard and autistic because they didn't stick to same boring joke format*
>"Ah shit, I got cheeto dust on the board again"
>ripping noise from somewhere
>look down
>man tits have become so heavy that they have torn my shirt open

[Anonymous No.6041448]

>>6041430
Cute but I'm on an iPhone and woke up to coffee made by my fiance to nurse my hangover from getting pitchers with the m8s. All you have accomplished with this post is a reassertion of the one you're quoting, which I am aware of in full and is represented as "you're here forever".

You're also doing that thing again where you try way too hard because you're an unfunny autistic faggot.

>tfw le work
>I will check this website on break while talking with my friend
>At least I'm not watching snowboarding videos and killing my data like him
>pleb

[Anonymous No.6041457]

>>6041430
>Multiple Ad-Hominem
I don't think this is the board for you.

[Anonymous No.6041486]

>>6041448
>tfw /lit/ is filled with successful, happy, confident, fit, intelligent and stable people who enjoy a healthy life style and mature relationships in a clean environment
>iPhone

Nevermind, normalfaggotry is a disease.

[Anonymous No.6041494]

>Today all this is, or should be, a part of the past: `Nietzscheanism' is as dead as `Wagnerism', and what we are left with is not a doctrine that might be preached and stand in need of defence but a human individual, an artist in language of great skill and power, and a philosopher of compelling insight and strictness of principle; we are left with the man and his philosophy.
Really Nietzsche?

[Anonymous No.6041500]

>>6041448
>I'm on an iPhone
>woke up to coffee
>pitchers
If you are not female/teen these are kind of embarrassing tastes..

[Anonymous No.6041504]

>>6041494
*THE MAN AND HIS PHILOSOPHY

[Anonymous No.6041513]

>>6041500
Now there are patrician tastes in cellphones too? What the fuck.

>implying anyone who is not a computer science faggot or a huge fucking technology nerd seriously cares about what phones they use other than whether they work well for their simple needs
It's like you're fresh from /b/

[Anonymous No.6041544]

>>6041513
Iphones are objectively bad, not recognizing this fact is a symptom of mental disorders

[Anonymous No.6041578]

>>6041544
>Iphones are objectively bad
Here in Vietnam they represent wealth. If you don't have an iphone, you're poor and rank below an iphone user. Now it's an iphone6 -- If you're still using an iphone 5 or 5s, you're not as wealthy as an iphone6 user. It's the same throughout most of Asia, we have the concept of 'face'. Despite being buddhist, we need an outward display of wealth to determine social hierarchy. So we take out loans to drape ourselves in $10k necklaces, buy iphones, and even cars that we can't really afford.

Despite this, they aren't 'objectively bad'. They are functionally sound for all the services a user wants. Compared to a nokia from a decade ago they are incredible. In the west, the affluent countries, there seems to be a climate of hating apple products. Probably because apple products are, to some extent, veblen goods, and also because of the associations -- the "starbucks hipster" scarecrow, and "the guy who isn't a tech wizard."

[Anonymous No.6041651]

>>6041578

holy shit this entire post

[Anonymous No.6041679]

>>6041578
Okay, bug just know that soon your country will graduate to android, and you will realize what you were missing

[Anonymous No.6042010]

>'It's a book,' I said. 'It's a book what you are writing.' I made the old goloss very coarse. 'I have always had the strongest admiration for them as can write books.' Then i looked at its top sheet, and there was the name -A CLOCKWORK ORANGE- and I said 'that's a fair gloopy title. Who ever heard of a clockwork orange?

[Anonymous No.6042025]

>4chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images.

Seriously, moot?

[Anonymous No.6042029]

>>6041448
Holy shit fellow are you really getting this mad about words you saw on a Mongolian marionette show video still website?

[Anonymous No.6042045]

>>6041448
I don't know what you exactly have to prove. Humor is subjective, you'll never convince someone something isn't funny. Just hide or ignore the thread if you don't laugh at it.

[Anonymous No.6042064]

>>6041679
>graduate to android, and you will realize what you were missing
I use a samsung galaxy s5, and my gf uses an iphone. We whatsapp each other, both send sms, sometimes skype or viber, facebook, some light internet use, occasional photographs. I wouldn't say either one of us are missing anything. I don't understand why people need to be in the best phone club, all you do is talk to friends, watch porn, google things and take shitty pictures. You're not genotyping for potential cancer cures.