/lit/ - Literature

>book has 3 based sentences followed by 1 cringe sentence
When the ratio gets that bad I just put the book down and find something else

>>14249680

I have never read a book twice. What about you?

>>12186958
>its bad because I say so

let me guess, you actually fucking think that crime and punishment has good dialogue?

>>11774072
>absolute seething

Ancient civilization might have condemned usury but been devoted to child sacrifice.
Credit is vital to build and expand a civilization. And financial innovation (such as bond markets, stock markets, insurance) has been just as impactful to the world as the steam engine.
You are right about central banks: They have tremendous powers - but their task hasn't nothing biased or political motive behind it. They simply want to keep you safe, to keep the economy healthy - and that's their power; to help the economy function as e.g. the lender of the last resort (which was the root cause for their establishment; having a lender of last resort to avoid bank runs).
And don't believe that banking elites run the world, that's pure nonsense. They're becoming a very large sector, yes, but they're not ruling.

And no Im not a Zuckerberg, but I have family who has had dinner with Churchill and family friends who has said no to Netanyahu. And they each confirm how far from the truth /pol/-related worldview is.
Don't get pills but get some other books.

>>11752836
yikes

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>>11696148
Cringe, this is why Nabokov made fun of mythological criticism in Look at the Harlequins and elsewhere, "this-stands-for-that" brainletism that produces a footnote to itself from whatever work in discussion.

>"I thought it was forceful and impressive ... There's something about German names, the German language, German things. I don't know what it is exactly. It's just there. In the middle of it all is Hitler, of course."

>it's c/lit/s reveal their inner /mu/tard episode
>>11570542
I'll give you a hint, scaruffi is at best dubious music historian, his music criticism points to no knowledge of music theory (that's why he like fantano resorts to vague adjectives when he describing something, the only difference between them is there's no avant teen credit in aping fantano).

>>11561545
Sure thing kiddo, keep seething

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>>11339433

The fact you don't know what a gam is is how I know you haven't read the book but I'll humour you.

>steelkilt
When the Pequod gams with the town-ho the novel flashes forward to Ishmael in a Spanish bar telling about how the town-ho had this fella steelkilt who started a mutiny and shit. Chapter ends with Ishmael swearing on the bible that the story is true Cus he met steelkilt at some point in the future.
>gam
Word for when two whaling ships meet up and have a chat
>the Rachel
Second last ship they gam with, also shows up in the epilogue
>DnM
Deep 'n' meaningful. When Ahab and Starbuck talk about their families at home in the last chapter before the chase