/lit/ - Literature

>>12936553
None, because books do not illicit feelings of shallowness or spadicism of ideas not full formed. Anyone intelligent enough to write a book is too intelligent to write an anime, or, for gods sakes, a manga.

As the skeleton roams,with this undead friends who was stained by a mighty white knight who just trying to protect a queen.
as the skeleton gonna ask the mighty white knignt why? We just want to ask "Where are we?" i have no idea what i'm doing here in the land of general?
As the skeleton pick up his bones on the ground
and skull looking up at the white knight face.
with this full close face helmet. the white knight says "oh.. but you are a undead horrid monster! i will never stop till all of you are gone!"
The skeleton repay with a tone of sadness " spare me we just want live our undead life and drink milk" Than white knight recall there's a farm nearby. than he says to the skeleton "ah.. you can get your mlik at a farm near just over the hill at north" the skeleton's skull jumped with happiness! and thanks for the white knight as others undead friends race for the glory of milk for bones to here can be more powerful.

>>8840454
The irony here is that peoples opinions and beliefs change, other-wise you wouldn't have converts, in significant amounts mind you.

The "artist" here is just a narcissistic manchild who doesn't like culture. and thinks humans should grow up in sterile environments.

>>8633496
Because /lit/ is just a bunch of pretentious faggots, just like on /mu/.

>>7808099
>of herself
>and her body

/fit/ Intelligence everyone.

>>7135736
>No, morality is objective

Ahhh, gotta love dumb-fags such as yourself that love nothing more than to jump into mob mentality head first.

>You're confusing the meaninglessness of your own existence for inherent meaninglessness

Lol, really? Not him, but please, tell me, 5 billion years from now, what meaning will your, or anyones life, ever have?

Don't worry, I can wait.

>>6500905
yeah keep it, brah
don't believe newfags theories about the spirit of 4chinz.

>>5606696
I had a dream/nightmare once about a machine like the one from In the Penal Colony before I had read it. I told a friend about it and he got me to read it. It's honestly still pretty unsettling to me.

>>5606441
Thanks for mentioning Kobo Abe, I've never heard of him. I'm halfway through The Woman in the Dunes, definitely seems like I would enjoy the rest of his work.

>>5449512
Yes. Even if they WHERE real they'd be totally harmless, it's not like they can move and attack without muscles holding them together or anything.

That'd be silly.

>>4937494
Hobbes
>Well, somebody has to be in charge.

>>4918744
Would you say that there's a difference between an interested in something and caring about something? And if so, what would you define it as? I don't think that what you care about is one static thing. I think that in researching other things you can find things that you care more about than what you cared about previously. So a small amount of curiosity in things may help you to find "better" things to care about.

>>4918660
"people fucking other people" is universal, though. It doesn't matter if it's starving kids in Africa or your neighbor letting his dog tear up your yard. Maybe you should try getting into a political scene on a lower level like in your county. It would probably be more interesting to you if it was about things that are immediately relevant to you.

>>4918615
I agree with that. But I find that when I look into some subjects that I didn't think I cared about, I become interested as I go along researching it. So I think that a lot of subjects are worth caring about to some extent.
>>4918618
I think that a problem with this is that a lot of current events actually do have some effect on our lives in one way or another. For instance, by staying informed on the Iraq war you could predict oil prices. So even a pedestrian conversation can have some impact on your life.
>>4918637
What news sites do you browse? And why?

How important is it to be knowledgeable and up to date on today's affairs?

Can you have valuable opinions on news and current events when you don't actively seek out new information from reliable sources? I guess what I'm asking is, if you're sitting around all day reading literature and somebody mentions the riots in Ukraine or some other controversial topic, should you even converse on the subject when you don't have any direct knowledge on it? Or does reading literature and philosophy give you a reliable enough world view to discourse and learn about topics you know nothing about?

How many of you keep up to date on the news? And if you don't, then why?

>>4913147
so you're writing lolita?

>>4909629
but a lot of time it's somebody having consensual sex without protection then using abortion as birth control. i'm not against abortion, but what it's become.

this is disgusting. it's like if there were some wheelchair bound people that wanted to compete in a race. instead of letting them wheel along with the runners, the governing body decides to break everybody's legs and put them in wheelchairs too so it's even. the academic left wants to stop everybody from reading these books instead of letting the few severely traumatized kids navigate their way through it.

i really like it when people debate/argue on /lit/ because i feel like i learn something from it. asides from the snobbery and memes /lit/ is probably one of the best boards on 4chan. you guys are great :)

>>4904332
not the guy you're arguing with, but...

if you think you can understand any allusions nietzche makes and any theories he expands or disagrees, with go ahead and read Thus Spoke Zarathustra. if not, read some of his easier shit and go back to it.

>>4902429
i enjoyed taipei but it kind of blended together with tao lin's other stories mentally. i think if you've read one tao lin novel/novella you've read them all.

>>4902305
the part in Blood Meridian with the old hunter where he wonders if there are other worlds really hit me hard for some reason.

>>4891760
>>4891874
i think it's more about how completely repulsive acts of violence are treated as mundane.

i'm not a vegatarian because i would have to majorly alter my diet. I already have a few food allergies so putting vegetarianism on top of that would make eating impossible.

Plus when I tried going vegetarian for a month I lost weight so there's that.

>>4888898
you made me stop and think about it, so you did good imo.