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So what is the /lit/ equivalent to ITAOTS on /mu/?
>>8279657
infinite jest
I'll go out on a limb and say Infinite Jest.
Absolutely infinite Jest.
Now back to your containment board.
Do all of Shakespeare's plays contain grammatical mistakes?
As I was reading Hamlet, I realised that there were many mistakes in his English and I started to wonder if this was even English at all. I couldn't understand what the characters were saying because of the bad grammar and awful vocabulary. And apparently Shakespeare creates his own new words? Like how am I supposed to understand anyone's writing if they just start creating uncommon new words from their bottoms?
An example of bad grammar:
"Horatio
Before my God, I might not this...
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Not even remotely funny.
>>8279369
Contribute with relevant comments please.
>>8279358
>Like did Shakespeare even study English at all or did he just start writing because he was broke?
What the fuck are you even on about? Before faking his death, he received an MA from Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, and he even translated some works from Latin into English.
It's likely that he was a prolific polyglot, and not a fucking "below average" English speaker
Would you pass the test?
passing the test would be walking out and letting that daft cunt pay for the meal
Yes
Even if you haven't read them, everyone here should be able to list at least 3
Jane Eyre, Mansfield Park, A Wizard of Earthsea.
Mfw no first date
What did the bible mean by this?
>>8278831
What do you think it means, dumbass? Delete this thread.
It means polyester/cotton blends are equal to sodomym
But Jesus made all these rules go away. So unless you are a Jew, you can wear t-shirts and practice sodomy.
>>8278867
Doesn't the bible seem to say the Jesus saved us all already so sins are pretty much a non-issue? I'll see you cunts in heaven. I'll be the one with a rotting dick and track marks on my thighs.
This has been popping up a lot recently, is this a new meme I'm unaware of?
Is this legit?
I don't get it
>>8278660
>No Henry James Varieties of Religious Experience
>No St. Augustine
>No Sufi texts
>No historical-critical texts regarding the evolution of Christianity and Paul
>No Evola or Marx
>Freud
>Jung
>Graves(?!)
It looks like some shitter took a community college...
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Looks like Foundations in New Age Mumbo Jumbo.
Some of it gas merit, but I don't know that it needs be grouped as some kind of inclusive curriculum
What's your mammy and daddy's favourite book, /lit/?
My Dad don't read, Mom's is probably a Stuart MacBride novel
>>8277673
Hello Aberdeenfag
>>8277661
They're both functionally illiterate. Probably The Bible.
>reading translations
how can you bitch so much about prose without being able to read the book in its original language?
is the average /lit/ poster bilingual at least?
>>8276848
I only speak two languages. English and bad english
>>8276848
>you wlll never fuck a girl this hot bookboy
>is the average /lit/ poster bilingual at least?
I think a lot of posters here are from non-English-speaking countries, so the average poster might very well be bilingual. Especially those that speak highly of non-meme non-English authors (e.g. Thomas Mann) have often read the original, I believe.
Besides reading/writing, what are your hobbies /lit/? How they help to make you a better person?
>>8273610
I have a job as a cashier
I listen to music a lot
That's about it
music and film
>>8273610
Video-games, climbing, HEMA, drawing very badly. Haven't been able to climb or HEMA for a while, though, because of exams.
>better
S P O O K Y
Show us your very own poetry and discuss it's meaning with each other.
I'll start it off
O beautiful sparkling ridge which bathed in light
blessed by serenity of the sun’s early wane
Brings an orange hue to that distant sight.
as it sets behind the field, lighting it aflame.
along comes the moon, passing through the sky.
And a blanket of stars follow suit in frame.
abridged by the sweet sound of the cricket’s cry.
As if saying goodbye to their bright dame.
the ridge, now shined with...
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We raid your fucking communes
We take your fucking drugs
We rape your hairy women
And set fire to your bongo drums
>>8271931
hahahahah, awesome poem. Is it about an african tribe?
>>8271939
I call it Hippie Blood Stains My Steel
> " yet so as not to make the sense a slave to the rhyme."
What did he mean by this?
christ killing kikes did 9/11
JET FUEL
rappers shouldnt always sacrifice lyricism for better flow / accommodation of the instrumentals
Hi /lit/ I want to get into Lovecraft but wher do I start ?
Can you guys help me out ?
The color out of space.
>>8284386
Dagon
>>8284386
The Outsider
Is /lit/ game enough be Übermensch?
>>8284287
*to be
>>8284296
*or not to be
>>8284312
*can you repeat the question?
http://www.si.com/vault/2012/10/22/106246059/the-vikings-punter-is-a-troll-rogue-named-loate
>Kluwe falls into this last category, though to hear him tell it, he stumbled into punting. His childhood was defined by Ray Bradbury, not Ray Guy. Growing up in Southern California, he discovered a gift for speed-reading—about 15 seconds per page, he says—and put it to use tearing through sci-fi and fantasy tomes. That is, when he wasn't playing video games, acing advanced math classes and mastering the violin.
>"He...
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Because some people enjoy doing it that way.
dumb completionist gaming mindset that has infected lots of people
>>8284277
Shit punter desu
Write about something new you learned today. (With quality syntax and intelligence). It doesn't have to be long or short, but perhaps you could give an expose about what significance it has. I'll start.
10% of Syrian "refugees" are extremists, even women. 90% might be "regular" but that's still 10% of thousands of people who have no other desire than to slaughter Americans and those of opposing faiths such as the French Catholics?
I would continue but you would tell me to gb2 pol. Anyways, what's something new you realized today?
>>8284212
>women
>having principles
>we know that Western women generally aren't, or at the very best they are extremely mild in their principlism
>Middle Eastern women are literally a lower class citizen in compared to Middle Eastern men
>they're being denied absolutely everything (e.g. equally high education) necessary for development as an individual sentient...
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>>8284212
I learned that unfreezing a frozen bottle of Pepsi in the microwave is a terrible idea. When you open the bottle it will spray pepsi everywhere like a goddamn volcano, and when you actually drink it, there's no gas in it left. Bullshit
are there any good books about romantic jealousy?
fanfic should serve you well here.
Was he short or just a turbo autist? Never understood why this guy had trouble getting it in
>>8284257
both
