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Anonymous Wed Aug 31 21:54:08 2016 No.8459577 [Reply] [Original]

I have a good one for you, /lit/: what is the point of literature?

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 31 21:55:40 2016 No.8459583 File: 145 KB, 286x307, dfw da fuck.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8459577 to make the banality of life interesting

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 31 22:02:39 2016 No.8459615 >>8459577 I have a good one for you, /lit/: what is the point

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 31 22:05:01 2016 No.8459625 File: 69 KB, 658x436, Gigamesh_mourns_Enkidu.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8459577 This was answered a long time ago.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 31 22:09:47 2016 No.8459634 >>8459625 lol they had gay sex with each other hahahahahaha

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 31 22:37:44 2016 No.8459742 to show people that you're more cultured and intelligent. if I wanted entertainment I'd be reading LOTR.

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 31 22:46:01 2016 No.8459767 >>8459577 More effective than Oral Tradition

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 31 22:50:55 2016 No.8459778 File: 28 KB, 282x362, 1467508435578.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8459577 Literature doesn't point since it's not a hand. Come on OP shit's self explanatory

>>	Anonymous Wed Aug 31 22:52:14 2016 No.8459782 depends on the book

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 1 00:34:23 2016 No.8460103 >>8459615 this is actually the good one.

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 1 00:38:36 2016 No.8460117 >>8459778 wrong, the point is a physical point. as it has oft been said, keen satire cuts like a razor. so literature can be imagined as having an actual, physical point, metaphorically... what is it?

>>	Anonymous Thu Sep 1 00:39:31 2016 No.8460119 To communicate experiences, ideas, and emotions.