/lit/ - Literature

The average, educated 18th century man was smarter than the majority of our most brilliant minds today, never mind the atheists.

Overall, I mean. The breadth of their knowledge was vast - whereas today, our educational institutions exist to churn out workers who are educated in a very narrow field. They revolve around money, rather than l'art pour l'art and vérité pour vérité.

Read Nietzsche's lectures on education. He knew what was coming.

>>8362683

>Literary criticism was once a respectable field
>Now this

>Sat beside a girl on the train home
>Reading Peer Gynt
>Girl sees me reading and asks me what it's about
>Before I even respond, she moans about some loud hooligans a few chairs down, which I'd been ignoring anyway
>Look up at them for a moment, and then she starts talking about the Harry Potter books
>Asks if I'd seen the last film
>Shrug a bit and give a completely non-committal/indifferent response
>Trying not to be visibly repulsed as this 6/10 plebeian keeps talking to me, moving from Harry Potter to True Blood and then Game of Thrones

23 years old and I've just given up on trying to find an intellectual equal in women. Good thing I'm bisexual-lite and into traps/etc.

>>8229757
>mfw he's calling others new
>he doesn't know about my face when i have no face
??? what ???
yeah, back to wherever you came from faggot
also kys

>>8220904

>Advocating speed/skim-reading
>Ever

Start spamming dog faces already idiot.

>>8194422

>>8179050
>the guitar effect they achieve on What Goes On
>(like a swarm of mosquitoes)
>feedback
You're a fucking pleb/10
It's literally a fuzz pedal and slight delay.
Dropped everything else you said, you fucking pseud.
How can you believe you're in any way fit to criticise an album if you don't even know basic shit like that?
God damn, I forgot that sometimes people on this board are fucking stupid and shouldn't be given the benefit of doubt.

>>8177909

>Female authors

>>8177310
>What's the last fifteen books you've read?
1. We Should All Be Feminists by Chimamanda Adichie
(I read it fifteen times)
>When was the last time you've read?
Right now. I'm typing this with my feet.
>What college are you attending?
Lmao, dropped desu.
>Who's your five favourite authors?
Brianna Wu
Owen Jones
>Who's your ten favourite philosophers?
My Diary desu, seriously.

Kill yourself though yeah? I ain't got nothing to prove to a Tumblr Feminist tripping on 4chan, bro.
You're the one who doesn't read!!! not me! (see how easy that is?)

>>8172261
>mfw no one knows the motivation for it
the claims he shouted ''Britain first'' were retracted
nice try though, unless you have inside knowledge of the incident then why are you just making stuff up on the internet, bro?

>>8165223
What's the point of you being alive on this earth? Breathing the same air? Taking up room like too many chairs in a room?

Kill yourself and do us all a favour.

C U N T
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>>8165231
Good. This makes you one of the good guys. Godspeed.

>>8158795

I know, I agree with you.

>Tfw no filiality

>>8065656

>"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stonewritten. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command or faith a dictum. I am my own God. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."

>2016
>Getting tricked by identity politics

>>7764538

Schopenhauer, Evola and others were really into that Indian shit.

I think they may have been onto something.

How can people so into literature from cultures they haven't experienced in any way?

Some fuck all in Russia reads the collected stories of Richard Yates. What happens? How could that person possibly feel it.

Some fuck from Iowa gets a masters in 19th century Chinese poetry

I read crime and punishment just like everyone else but I freely state it's foreign to me and don't expect any terrific insight from it

>muh human condition

Fuck off

If you laugh at Chaucer's humor, I mean...

>>7536076

>I refuse to let myself be entertained

/lit/ please help me find a book that will help me reconcile with my deeply entrenched hatred for public displays of emotion.
Thanks.

>>6810035

literary confession thread

>tfw History/Classics
>tfw just came home from Robarts with a duffel bag full of of 25 books
>tfw gorgeous collector's 1945 edition of Burckhardt's Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy
>tfw some undergrad faggot has written ugly notes all over the beautiful leaf pages
>VISCONTI ARE DESPOTS 4 MILAN

>>5379963
>someone quotes an excerpt from an on-topic essay by one of the greatest writers of all time, on a literature board
>"copypasta wall of text"
>translation: this has been said before, and it's too long
>on a literature board

>>5167482
>Dubliners
>8/10

It's a solid 10. The Dead is the greatest short story ever written.