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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7UC3LudcCDU
How does /lit/ feel about this ?
>>8179523
Voice is pretty insufferable desu.
>>8179523
Watsky wrote a book, and got a Lin Manuel Miranda co-sign. I gotta buy this.
youtube was a mistake
Explain why I should not have a huge Anglo superiority complex. People come from small time countries like Sweden, Germany, Italy, and Russia, learn English at the age of 6 because there are 9000001 motivations and sources, then abuse English speakers for not learning second languages. And there are literally zero non English countries that have contributed significant amounts of novels (or science or anything desu).
This obviously includes Rome and Ancient Greece. All this "Classics" fetishisation is a yearning for a simpler time where you could laze under...
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easter
I hate /pol9k/ so goddamn much
Do you have nothing better to do than shit up other boards?
>>8179388
Yes but we choose not to.
Is there room for affirmative action in the arts?
I'm on the BBC writers room website and it seems like they always have lots of race-specific opportunities advertised there.
>>8179301
Here we go again!
>>8179301
Also, their website has job advertisements that specifically request only non-white people apply.
This means you are at a huge disadvantage if you're white. Not only are these special job listings not available to you, the jobs that are will be contended by all races as well as some of the most educated and experienced people in the country.
Your chances of success are greatly diminshed.
>>8179301
as long as they don't expect white male shekels or viewers, I don't see the problem
Where does your country rank?
2
What could China, a country that kidnaps booksellers, possibly be publishing?
>>8179285
Bureaucratic manuals?
What do you think of Socrates' acceptance of his death sentence?
He says that death is no evil, and on this I agree. But in his case it was certainly not good either. He was given the function of moral gadfly by 'the god', and by choosing to die (and that is what he did, by his own admission in Crito where he says he could have suggested exile at his trial and received it as a sentence) he left empty the post in which god had placed him, with no one to take his place. This was a great moral loss to the state which sentenced him to death and to whom he was...
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Soc wins. We are all better for it.
>>8179236
His death was heroic no doubt, but was it truly the very best choice? His defence of his choice to die in Crito is, I think, flawed.
>>8179223
You might know this but:
1. He was old af.
2. He couldn't keep doing what he did if he accepted the penalty (being le wise person), which were the will of the god.
3. Accepting would deny his philosophy (about doing the right choices)
4. He couldve escaped, but doing it would fuck up his family (he and his family would been seen as fugitives etc)
A while since i last read Plato but i'm some of the reason were mentioned in The Aplology aswell.
Lit, I'm looking for some literature that raises interesting as fuck questions. I always feel like when I read something I'm just getting a story. I want something that reading will make you discover things about yourself and the world and leave you feeling (I could put anything here) like you have a new perspective.
The Holy Bible.
>>8179399
atheistfags on blast XD
>>8179399
Stupid recommendation.
Any transgender-friendly books, /lit/
The Holy Bible.
>>8179175
Transsexualism is a mental disorder.
>>8179192
Please go back to /pol/ where you belong
Does it make /lit/ better or just cause blissful ignorance for how shit this place really is?
>>8179113
>pleb pseud detected
>abridged
>>>/trash/
If you're that offended by words reddit works, they delete people who say mean words.
Why isn't anything philosophical coming out of East Asia?
They're well-developed, yet you don't see much Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese or even Chinese ( although that's not too big a surprise ) names in that section of the book store?
Why?
Like sure, they got their novelists, but philosophy? Nope, nothing.
Because their culture died. Welcome to multiculturalism friend.
>>8179105
work harder
>>8179115
>Welcome to multiculturalism friend.
*modernity
*industrial capitalism
japan is monoethnic as fuck and has become a wasteland as well
how do i know if my thoughts are stupid?
>>8179038
They are
>>8179038
share them with some people, but maybe someone besides /lit/. We have enough shit posting.
>>8179038
post them on 4chan
You know every angle of the potential thread. You know ever word, every possibility, every shake. Why make this fucking thread?
>>8179026
Not bad. I wasn't feeling the whole prisoner/patient sub plot involving a virus
>>8179026
Same reason why you were made: fun.
>ITT: post books only you read
vurt by Jeff noon
city of god by paulo lins
Was Stephen Dedalus a gay?
>>8178985
>be Stephen Dedalus
>be Jame Joyce's alter ego
>be oppressed due to religion and right-winged Irishmen running the country into the ground
>fuck a prostitute cuz I want dat pussai
>feel terrible and the preacher who probably touched me and my buddies in our pooper is freaking me right the fuck out with this hell shit
>idgaf...
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>>8179013
The dialog between him and Buck seems kinsa questionable though
Why would you think that he is gay?
Because he loves art and the girl he wanted found another man more attractive?
How do I into literary analysis and critique?
>>8178979
You don't, it's soulless shitty sophistry.
U don't. You go out and live your life
You have to become like a dog.
So immersed in irony that your exquisite intelligence is mistaken for nonsense. That's what dogs are. Reversed gods.
As Confucius said: "The superior man can write wan wan wan, and the elect will understand him. The lesser man can write a treatise spanning the gap between the Earth and the Lunar Capital, and it will not be grasped."
Meditate on these words every day... and you will evolve, volve, volve.
Someone explain to me the appeal to lovecraft, I dont get it. I've read call of cthuluhu, the thing on the doorstep, at the mountains of madness, and other stories but I cannot for the life of me actually
1) care about it
2) be afraid because of it.
Every story it feels like the narrator goes on and on about how horrifying whatever theyre experience was without describing it, they talk endlessly and drone on and one about how terrifying it is, how impossible it is to describe, how impossible it is to comprehend without falling into complete and utter madness....
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Luv u :3
>>8178950
It was the freakiest thing that came out in that time period. It's probably too mild for the modern audience.
>>8178969
That does make sense but why do people now seem to be in love with it or are they just in love with lovecraftian things?
