/lit/ - Literature

>>14502167
>thinks school is for education

>>14185659
>>14185731
idealism is an epistemological viewpoint

>>9066999

t. guy who doesn't know how to play chess

>>8247794
I don't feel like wasting my time with you, fuckhead.

>>8109145
>16
>Stirner

>chinese cartoon imageboard
>intellectual

>>8050894
>all the top imams and islam scholars
>basically every Muslim scholar born before 1900

Do you see where we're getting mixed up here?

Also I guess they were defending themselves when they invaded Spain right? Defended themselves all the way up into France before that awful Charles Martel attacked them and kept them from defending all of Europe.

Or Babur the Timurid's defense of India. He was called Defender of the Faith after all.

Modern scholars can say what they want, and who knows, maybe they're "right," as "right" as you can be about a medieval book's "true meaning" but that doesn't change that basically everyone preceding them interpreted it a certain way and that interpretation set up the essential course of Islam's historical relationship with the rest of the world.

>>7855183
>Scottish
>Irish
>Australian
>good accents

>>7784038
>denialism

>>7772868

Why is Tim Heidecker so much better than Eric Wareheim?

>read Euclid
>first four postulates okay
>get to fifth
>mfw

>>5927795
>Stephen King's wife fished Carrie out of the trash and said 'keep going with it', It was the first thing he ended up publishing, and he got 6 figures.

and that's supposed to be a good thing?

>people who complain about "unlikable characters"
>people who complain about plots where "nothing happens"
>people who complain about "convoluted and obscure prose"

>people who don't just devote their whole lives absorbing a single great author or work of literature (Shakespeare, the Bible, the list can go on)
>people who don't realize that you can find literally everything to appreciate and analyze in a single one these works
>people who don't realize that you need a lifetime devoted to that single author or work to fully do that

>>5833514

>implying the "powers that be" don't actually love these books because it gives people a false sense of knowledge about "how the real world works" which keeps them numb from how They really control us

>>5388335
>mfw people who know nothing about Sartre's philosophy think No Exit is supposed to support misanthropy

>>5266096
>>In recent years, Franzen has become recognized for his purveyance of opinions on everything from social networking services such as Twitter ("the ultimate irresponsible medium") and the proliferation of e-books ("just not permanent enough") to the disintegration of Europe ("The people making the decisions in Europe are bankers. The technicians of finance are making the decisions there. It has very little to do with democracy or the will of the people.") and the self-destruction of America ("almost a rogue state")
>doesn't say anything about his actual books

You rustlin'? Coetzee won in 2003.