/lit/ - Literature

>which witch which

>>16937413
Surely the middle "that" should be italicized or in quotation marks.

>>16274917
>he reads authors other than himself

>>15275974
>reading Shakespeare
>get to the part where Hamlet says "to be or not to be"
>translator put it (SHOULD I END MY LIFE) in block capitals
>mfw

>mom found the trendy coffeeshop open mic set list

>>14026088
>meme arrows

>>12668937
>tfw been avoiding /b/ all the way up to Uni because /lit/ meme
>tfw get into argument with professor over old /b/
>bring up the usual arguments "old /b/ is a myth for newfags, traps are gay" etc.
>pulls out a rekt thread, a tribute thread, and a dickrate thread
>proceeds to show me degenerate pedo shit equivalent to my favourite writer (Burroughs; he knows this)
>mfw I fell for the lit meme and got btfo'ed in front of everyone sounding like a plebeian midwit boomer

>dad found the "Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay" acceptance speech

>>12198049

In the past, there seemed to be a sense of perpetual degradation because the church had been abandoned and there was *still* war, violence, disease, and corruption. We are still without religion, but we're also without the noble causes that a society must face when death, suffering, pain, and misery are everywhere. Whereas that generation faced their evils and came out on the other side somehow, we have no such cause to challenge us. Instead, we stare into the abyss of pointless, vain, materialistic consumerism. It never goes away. We don't get sick. We don't die in a trench in Verdun or Vietnam. We just drift through from one day to the next, defining ourselves by arbitrary and meaningless things, talking more but saying less, learning more but understanding less. Feeling more but appreciating less.

....this, my friends, is the utilitarian utopia: a sphere of empirical success drowning in the abyss of meaninglessness.

>>11993251

>the author has a social media presence