/lit/ - Literature

>>10810793
legolas anime eyes confirmed

>>10811601
>where i'm not invested
whoopsie daisy

>>10811254
i've only read YSKOV and hologram and they both fell short of my expectations, to the point where invested in reading more

i think he's an untalented, hard-working guy who just got lucky by capitalizing on a great story that he happened to experience

>>10810445
"I am truly of the opinion that the third world is exactly what I said, an ideology or an illusion. Africa, Asia, South America—those are realities. If you now compare these regions with Europe and America, then you can say of them-but only from this perspective-that they are underdeveloped, and you assert thereby that this is a crucial common denominator between these countries. However, you overlook the innumerable things they do not have in common, and the fact that what they do have in common is only a contrast that exists with another world; which means that the idea of underdevelopment as the important factor is a European-American prejudice. The whole thing is simply a question of perspective; there is a logical fallacy here. Try telling a Chinese sometime that he belongs to exactly the same world as an African Bantu tribesman and, believe me, you'll get the surprise of your life."

>>10810013
>says shit like this
>also acts flabbergasted when a woman brings up objectification

>>10806562
> When Nature is enamored it creates
> them both, Lord Love and heart his habitat
> inside which love, in hiding, hibernates,
> sometimes for ages, sometimes less than that.
vita nuova isn't about a man trying to develop a real relationship with a woman. do you get the sense that while you may be able to vividly imagine beatrice strolling the streets of florence, you can't imagine actually having a conversation with her? it isn't a love story between dante and beatrice, it's a love story between dante and his own infatuation with the transcendental beatrice, who is manifested by the sonnets. he's not really pining; he has unlimited access to beatrice, because he made her up

>>10806586
>The fundamental defect of the female character is that she WON'T GO OUT WITH ME I'M SO LONELY REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

>>10806164
you won't be able to fill a (nonminuscule) bookshelf with brand new hardcover classics for less than $1.5k, and it would probably be much more than that. a few hundred dollars could potentially get you a decent secondhand collection but it will probably take a lot of waiting and effort

>>10806483
>i ching
>poetic edda
>beowulf
>countless others

>>10806484
have you uhhhh read vita nuova

>>10787549
i can tell who doesn't fucking read by whether or not they immediately ask "so you've read all of these?" when they enter my apartment

>>10793996
>20
>devner
>pic related
it's not awful but not great either, and it's typeset like a YA book for some reason. oscillating between cringing and earnestly enjoying it

>>10761534
i hope you get an F

>>10761508
>What influence did the Enlightenment Thinkers have on the development of American democratic principles?
>yes

you're fucked

>>10761460
i have a job and go to school full-time and i love God and i still read way more than OP :^)

>>10761235
how do you pay your bills? buy groceries? buy books?

unlikely: you have some form of passive income that completely covers your living expenses and then some (rental property, investments, etc.) and are financially leeching off of people less lucky than yourself

less unlikely: you're getting autism bucks and you financially leech off of people who actually (gasp!) go to work every day

likely: you live with relatives or are at least entirely financially dependent on them. you leech off of people who at one point had hopes and expectations for you

certain: you're disappointing everyone who even remotely cares about you

>>10757346
yes it's the literary equivalent of edging

just enjoy the anticipation

>>10759662
if you can prove that The Aleph has any philosophical value at all, i'll venmo you 10 dollars

>>10735870
genetic detritus harassing waitstaff and pretending to text while covertly pulling up wikipedia articles

>>10664522
women don't approach men you mong

>>10662886
>doesn't know how to spell millennial
>comfortable calling others pseuds
fascinating

>>10662872
better without it :^)

>>10663821
it's impossible to express the exact same abstract idea in two languages

even if an author oversees their translations (like kundera) or writes their translations themselves (like beckett), they can never have the same meaning as the original text