/lit/ - Literature

>>18591420
>Martin opted to repeatedly reference racist figures in the science-fiction community
>The figures Martin referenced included H.P. Lovecraft and John W. Campbell
>The late author and the late editor, respectively, each won a Retro Hugo award this year
You can't make this shit up lmao. Some faggot actually derides him for promoting two people who won Awards at the very same ceremony.

But wait, it gets even better
>In 2019, during their acceptance speech after winning the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, Jeannette Ng called out Campbell as a fascist.
>The 2019 speech itself won Ng another Hugo on Friday night for 2020’s Best Related Work.
So you are telling me some retarded shit talking speech where the recipient of an Award insulted the person in whose honor it was named, that fucking speech got an Award? Did she give a speech for receiving the Award for giving a speech for receiving an Award? Will she win another Award for that new speech too maybe? How far down the rabbit hole can we go? Goddamn what a shitshow I'm fucking dying.

>>14993562
This much mental gymnastics to just evade the question. The beginning of space is also the beginning of time. You can't have space without time or time without space. Bounce theories are false because we know that the universe is infinitely expanding at an accelerating rate, hence it will not collapse in on itself, and it still wouldn't answer the question of what started that universe. You're just moving the goalpost.

>>12954661
>local anon commits philosophical suicide by surrounding himself with distractions and invented beliefs to elude any and all acknowledgement of the uncomfortable truth

>>12946249
Do they really not teach americans all the Italo-Dalmatian languages? I thought it was just a meme. Fucking kek at burgertards

>>12196706
>Sergey Savitsky had been trying to use literature to pass the lonesome months at Bellingshausen Station on King George Island, but his colleague Oleg Beloguzov was making it impossible to enjoy his hobby.
topkek

>>12190177
>Said the news man with reporting.
>"INDIGNITIES." Roared Garfield
>"The only thing being stopped is your life! Eat fist!"

>>12011003
>Hasn't read the entire book
>Gave up and read the pop-science version instead
>"Dude just read the pop-science version, just be aware that it's pop-science so it can be summarized in a wikipedia page"

>>11709003

Holy shit the left literally cant meme

>>11617898
Fucking hell anon

>>10780835
"Of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it."
>Why not? What's wrong with knowing right from wrong?

Holy fuck. That is beyond dense; I can't, anon...

>>10672761

>>10590080
>accuses an anon of pseudointellectuality
>proceedes to use "inadeguacy" in his contrived shitpost

Cause most people aren't. They are far more interested in your literary style, overall tone and thematic elements that add style and nuance to your story.

We don't pay writers to express complex ideas simply. We pay them to express simple ideas in a complex way.

I think that was my first mistake.

>>9601113
Leftypol got triggered hard.

>>9555643
>>9556234
>>9559252
Oh man look at all these mature and adult leftists. These grown, sensible men know that the past is the past and that a womans partner count doesn't matter, and that sex is just innocent fun. Besides virgins are no fun anyway.

>>9427905
Must be inspired by it.

>>9015404
>>9015405
>Lit-fags completely assblasted by the superiority of STEMChads

>>8850364
>reading philosophy
>calling anything else meaningless

Came for the RPO discussion, stayed for the /lit/ wars.

I liked this book

>>8373104

>>7994590
don't you mean irretard

Have fedoras always been around? The P&V translation of The Brothers Karamazov says in the notes that Dostoevsky presented the viewpoints of the freethinkers of his time out of the mouth of an edgy 13 (going on 14!) year old boy in order to make fun of them.

>"For God's sake, you want obedience and mysticism. You must agree, for instance, that the Christian faith has only served the rich and noble, so as to keep the lower classes in slavery, isn't that so?"

>"Yes, world history. It is the study of the succession of human follies, and nothing more. I only respect mathematics and natural science."

>"But good heavens, the classics have been translated into all languages, therefore there was absolutely no need for Latin in order to study the classics, they needed it only as a police measure to dull one's faculties."

>"I have nothing against God. Of course God is only an hypothesis...but...I admit, he is necessary, for the sake of order...for the order of the world and so on...and if there were no God, he would have to be invented."

>"If I speak about Tatiana, it's not at all to say that I'm for women's emancipation. I acknowledge that woman is a subordinate creature and must obey."

>>7297840
>Videogames
>Art