/lit/ - Literature

/lit/ got me to read the Greeks, got me into poetry, got me into philosophy, and got me back into the church
/pol/ showed me truth about the political world
4chan let me get away from the propaganda and read the thoughts of real people who don't care about their social standing and just communicate for the pleasure of free spiriited discussion
I am thankful

>Then there was this, from Cummings’s 1950 collection, Xaipe:

>a kike is the most dangerous
>machine as yet invented
>by even yankee ingenu
>ity(out of a jew a few
>dead dollars and some twisted laws)
>it comes both prigged and canted

>The last line of the poem originally read: ‘it comes both pricked and cunted.’ The editor, Theodore Weiss, a Jew, objected and had Cummings change it.
Did't know Cummings was based

Very nice I liked it

>>19818124
Thank you for the suggestions, I'm not very well read either, but I'm trying to change that.

>>19818849
Thank you fren

>>19819463
Thank you

What are some books on national socialism besides Mein Kampf?

Good morning, frens. How are you holding up?

When is /lit/ going to have another Boston meetup?

Where do you guys watch gore now that live leaks and best gore are gone?

>>15009895
I seriously hope nobody on this board has fallen for the tranny meme and gotten their junk chopped.

futile platonic attraction to ancient poets.

>>14536093

It's no /tv/ for sure, SAD!

>tfw want to read but my attention span has been decimated by Internet
>keep putting books in my backlog, knowing full well I'll never get there
>14 books completed in 2019

>>14148915
>>14150407

“When our savants characterize their golden age in any but scientific terms, they emit a quantity of down-at-the-heel platitudes that would gladden the heart of the pettiest politician. Let's take a few samples. “To render human nature nobler, more beautiful, and more harmonious.” What on earth can this mean? What criteria, what content, do they propose? Not many, I fear, would be able to reply. “To assure the triumph of peace, liberty, and reason.” Fine words with no substance behind them. “To eliminate cultural lag ” What culture? And would the culture they have in mind be able to subsist in this harsh social organization? “To conquer outer space.” For what purpose? The conquest of space seems to be an end in itself, which dispenses with any need for reflection. We are forced to conclude that our scientists are incapable of any but the emptiest platitudes when they stray from their specialties. It makes one think back on the collection of mediocrities accumulated by Einstein when he spoke of God, the state, peace, and the meaning of life. It is clear that Einstein, extraordinary mathematical genius that he was, was no Pascal; he knew nothing of political or human reality, or, in fact, anything at all outside his mathematical reach. The banality of Einstein's remarks in matters outside his specialty is as astonishing as his genius within it. It seems as though the specialized application of all one's faculties in a particular area inhibits the consideration of things in general. Even J. Robert Oppenheimer, who seems receptive to a general culture, is not outside this judgment. His political and social declarations, for example, scarcely go beyond the level of those of the man in the street.”

>>14084564
Lol. GOT 'EM

>>14077957
>20
>5'8
>White
>Don Quixote
>Literary Studies
>Keats
>Agnostic Theist
>Legally blind
>13
>1, my fiance

life is good

bump

>>12561743
>not listening to trap and melodeath while reading

>>12159058
Seems to be a hit OP