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So, which one do you like more, /lit/?
Christopher wins by default, as he at least wrote some good commentaries on specific events over the years, and his ideas on religion, and Marxism, while largely wrong, had some fucking good qualities hidden deep. Peter on the other hand has nothing towards his credit.
>>8274095
>quantity over quality: the post
Both are shit desu.
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anyway i just finished this and was wondering on /lit/'s interpretation of the ending.
Is Holden the devil?
what happened to the kid?
meme/10
Blood Meridian
What are your favourite Stephen king books?
1. The Stand
2. It (out of nostalgia)
3. Dark Tower 1-4
The Long Walk
Different Seasons/The Body
>pride and prejudice is social realism as the females are under threat of not getting inheritance
>they employ servants
You realize that it was common place for petit bourgouise right?
For fucks sake, even the family in the Metamorphosis had a maid despite seemingly being near destitute
If women didn't get an inheritance, that means no/lesser dowry which means good luck finding a man who wants to get with you
>>8273952
>For fucks sake, even the family in the Metamorphosis had a maid despite seemingly being near destitute
This is something I've noticed in Dostoevsky a lot, too, with even the Underground Man having a servant, and I believe Golyadkin in The Double had one as well. It's very strange to think about, but those were the times. Good post.
>>8273916
why do feminists read into pride and prejudice as if Austen was expressing feminist sentiments?
Why are the greatest writers Catholic? (Or at last raised in its teachings)
Dante, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Cervantes, Proust, Joyce, Pynchon
What did God mean by this?
Last time I checked, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Xenophon, Herodotus and pretty much every other great Greek was NOT Catholic.
Check and mate, as we say in the Chess world.
>>8273827
for a start Dante's Catholicism would have been immensely different to any one of those authors
Shakespeare wasn't Catholic.
What are some books that go against the prevalent Christian/Buddhist narrative of praising victimhood, weakness and compassion and instead laud strength, authority and/or duty?
muh reductive view of christianity
muh gibbon
might is right
The Old Testament
“What amazed me most was this audience, many of them Game of Thrones fans, could see nothing wrong in talking, eating and taking pictures throughout the show – or complaining when asked to stop,” he wrote inThe Stage.
“A couple saw nothing wrong in producing from their bag a box of McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets and a large side of fries,” he wrote. “At the interval, they had popped out and purchased these to consume through the second half.
“Munching certainly seemed to be the order of the day. The couple to my left ate their way through a large...
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>>8273770
the theatre is by your definition technically /mu/
Jesus Christ /tv/ was right
>>8273770
>on /lit/
>Doesn't recognize Dr Faustus as theatre and instead assumes it's TV.
Who let you out of your cage?
Hi /lit/,
do you know any writers, who do not only write, but compose, paint, make scupltures, etc? Basically I'm looking for multimedia artists, who also spend some of their time writing.
Schoenberg was also a painter and he wrote books on music.
>>8273753
Tao Lin
>>8273753
Captain Beefheart aka Van Vilet.
Are all the characters in this supposed to be unsympathetic and vapid?
>>8273739
yes, because they're closer to real people than most of the characters created in the last 30 years.
Sympathetic, likable characters are reddit tier
>>8273767
They're just no fun to be around apart from Bunny tho
>>8273767
muh muh postmodern ethics
Lit, I've never had sex and I'm 22. What's a good novel for me before I kill myself? I'm gay btw.
Death in Venice.
Don't kill yourself.
Phenomenology of Spirit, don't kill yourself until you figure it out.
Don't do it! Think of all the great books you haven't read
Is /lit/ the cheapest hobbie?
>>8273668
Lots of hobbies are free if you have the Internet.
>>8273668
If you have a kindle and the patience to handle an infinite amount of dead links, yes.
>>8273668
Depends like a lot of hobbies.
Do you read novelas to pad your stats?
Lit peen is important.
I've read a lot from that list, but not to impress people. I think that people are more impressed if you've read longer books.
>>8273617
He's talking more in terms of the quantity of things you'd read.
>>8273604
I read them because I just enjoy novellas.
Can we all agree that post modernism is one of the best things to ever happen to art, if not the best thing? What better revolution than realizing that art is whatever you find enjoyable, it doesn't have to be done by some sort of standard. If you find something interesting, it's by default a good piece of art.
I think this is wonderful, because not only does it get art to be fun and exciting again (as opposed to stuffy) but it opens up your mind to outside the box thinking. It gets you to think about the subjective nature of our representation of the world....
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>>8273587
I'm not quite sure you 'read' postmodernism correctly. Then again I'm not confident that I and the rest of /lit/ know and understand postmodernism.
>>8273595
>>8273595
Postmodernism isn't about any of those things.
This book is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb1_ALSLuLQ
http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/H/He/Herbert_Frank_-_Dune.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Dune-Frank-Herbert/dp/0441172717/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468410775&sr=8-1&keywords=dune
Go buy it and read it yourself.
Literally finished this half an hour ago. It is pretty good, yeah.
>>8273602
Awesome. Thanks for the reply. I'm on the 4th page and it's so goood..
Stop shilling, we don't read dumb sci fi shloc here.
The entire arts and humanities academia-media-publishing culture is posturing bullshit.
All claims of artistic worth are unfalsifiable. All philosophical claims are unfalsifiable. The Munchhausen trilemma shows that we can never know anything except for our inability to know anything. We can accept shared axioms but obviously anyone can pick different axioms (e.g., "Murder is good").
The Stirner meme is a version of what I have said above but it's only done because pretentious people only bother entertaining ideas that have been mentioned by published...
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>post-modernists browse /lit/
so?
>>8273527
Look, there he goes again. Packaging things up and throwing them in to discrete areas like his professor told him to. Yeah, that shows understanding.
