/lit/ - Literature

Fuck... what was my tripcode...

I don't own a copy, I guess.

>>1638894
>waiting for the movie
funny.

>guy fucks girl, reads a book, gets executed

>Aspie kills a black guy, doesn't understand why everyone gets pissed off.

BOOK SUMMARY THREAD

>>1621660
>ive even seen posters complain about punctuation and greentext use here.
You mean I've.

>>1621651
>I wasn't talking about you tofu SHUT THE FUCK UP TOFU

Sure.

*Wink again*

>>1621620
I get this post.

>>1621608
> Do you really not understand that or are you being difficult (or not bothering to read)?
Bit of both

>I'm talking about understanding what is ethically most responsible in relation to sentience and diet.
Oh, in that case just be vegan. I think I help relative to sentience. So, I value dogs above insects. But then it gets complicated, because I value smart humans equally to dumb ones. It's really just following my heart.

>>1621647
Go ahead.

>>1621644
*Wink*

>>1621577
>Don't you think you oughta know or examine WHY you have the beliefs you do, though?
Yeah, I know why I think what I think.
>If you find the actual discussion surrounding animal ethics so exhausting, then why do you think it's important enough that you need to live a vegan lifestyle?
Because it seems obvious to me. It's like if you lived in a world where not everyone believed in gravity, for example. You wouldn't want to talk about it. You'd just want people to fuck off and quit pretending there was no gravity.

>>1621580
>At the end of the day, you have to just remember that if you can't come to some grand realization about the nature of this matter, or any matter, well...you're only human and there's only so much you can know and understand.
The fuck are you talking about?

>>1621581
>OP here, vegan myself. I understand your problem. In daily, de discussion wears out fast because people draw a "WE DON'T KNOW"-card. The problem is, we can still count on the parameters we DO know: does an animal recognize itself? Can it feel pain? Can it mourn the loss of another member of the species? The answer is yes. But then again, shouldn't it be enough of an argument explaining the horrors of factory farming?
I get exhausted because it seems like most people who eat meat don't think about it, or think about it in a very superficial way. When I do talk to people, I have to go over the same paths I always do to get them up to speed.

>bleh
The real reason I get bummed with arguing for animal rights is because not once in my life has me proving objectively led to someone being vegan. The only way that happens (its happened a few times) is by leading by example and not being a dick. It's sorta cool, because it means you have a lot of motivation to not be a dick, and that makes everyone happier.

Vegan here (wat wat)

Am I the only person who finds animal rights texts totally exhausting? It's like, I have my beliefs, people disagree with me for reasons I think aren't very strong, and that's it. Knowing every detail of the horror that is the life of farm animals doesn't really help me in my day-to-day or in winning arguments, and all this "where do we draw the line for sentience" shit just wears me out all the same.

>>1621464
>(I liked the book by the way)
Got that.

>>1621510
>how old are you Tofu?
23

>and i'd be interested in listening to your songs!
I'd be incredibly uncomfortable with that. My music is basically motivated by my desire to make noise (like banging) and that is tempered by my basic understanding of music theory.

Also, out of curiosity, how old are you, and where are you from again anyway?

>>1621498
Yeah man I got a cat. We get along as well as a human and cat ever have.

>>1621496
Blegh.

>>1621483
What my router? I didn't even know about that. I got some good stuff done while banned, it really was for the best. Because I wasn't here, I:
>Read some books (the stranger and lies my teacher told me)
>Wrote some articles (didn't get published because its on a weird subject, the writing wasn't spectacular, and because I have absolutely zero credentials)
>Got a god damn job (a shitty one)
>Recorded some songs (crappy ones)
But now I'm back at /lit/, so maybe I'll go back to being shitty again. Who knows!

>>1621491
This guy made me laugh.

>>1621480
Well I don't like that at all

>>1621462
Oh, thanks! You know, the way you said it, it seemed like you meant something else.

>>1621444
Nice trips, dude.

Check out the facial expressions of the dude in the middle (Auuugh), the two dudes in the middle/top/left (he's ill), middle/top/right (he's sneezing), and the guy in the top/right (totally spaced out.)

>>1621455
Yeah I missed that. Can you give me the jist?

>>1621453
Why did I come back?

>>1621435
If 4chan was a country, it would be communist Russia. There's a lot of nice people, but between the gangsters (ie trolls) and secret police (ie mods) everything is fucked. But, I mean, what are we going to do, protest and get a new president?

>>1621431
that's fucking well read

All I know about translating I learned from Matthew Arnold

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Translating_Homer

Sup

We should make a fucking .jpeg guide for Vonnegut and throw it on the lit wikia