/lit/ - Literature

>>20489889
>"heat death" is billions upon trillions of years away
>he unironically thinks that isn't enough time for humanity to figure out how to prevent it
>he unironically thinks time stops because "a tree doesn't make sound if there's nobody around to hear it"
>he unironically thinks "nothing" is a satisfactory answer just because modern science cannot qualify anything
the minds of atheists are truly limited

>>19613005
>English poetry
>not a single of the big six Romantic poets
also include based Heaney

>361 chapters
>15 books
>"First Epilogue: 16 chapters"
>"Second Epilogue: 12 chapters"
Really, Tolstoy?

>read "The Complete Poetry of Sappho"
>it's all fragments

>he believes that genre fiction is bad because "magic and aliens don't exist in real life lmao"
>he worships mythological epic poems and refuses to read the great realist novels of the 19th and 20th centuries

>>18611253
>he thinks he can do the necessary research on 17th century research without the resources of being a PhD literature student
>he thinks literary fiction publishers respect anybody without at least an MFA
>he thinks any publishers of any kind are willing to publish 800K+ word book from a debut writer

>>17994841
>the left is unnaturally obsessed with hierarchies and power dynamics
>let me tell you about MY theories on hierarchies and power dynamics

>OP fabricates verse about a warthog penis
>doesn't mention Noah being raped by his son
>doesn't mention Lot being raped by his daughters

>>17160286
>Franz Kafka
>character is named K
At least Philip Roth came up with a new name.

>start watching Yale online philosophy course on death
>5 minutes in or so
>"My job is to convince you to be an atheist"
So this... is the power of education.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p2J7wSuFRl8

>1 Samuel
>best character is David

>>16054062
>Muslims threaten to murder Salman Rushdie
>literally had to go into hiding
>the left is going to cancel all of his artistic accomplishments because he said "it's okay to disagree with my opinions on things"

>>15820010
>posts ISHYGDDT
>posts pepe instead of coztanza
the absolute state of 4channel.org

>>15685862
>if it's in a non-fiction book, it's true
>if it's in a documentary, it's propaganda

>>15485510
>"I can appreciate Aristotle"
>refuses to listen to Aristotle on the value of poetry
You are a certified retard.

>that one video where Jordan Peterson is arguing with a gender studies person
>Peterson: the science says gender is real
>gender studies person: actually, the science says the opposite
>they never actually cite any studies or talk about the "science"

>>15349904
>look up "Mother of Learning" on Goodreads
>author: Nobody103
>2882 pages
Nobody actually reads these, do they? It's all just a meme, right? Nobody would ever seriously read this over Harry Potter or ASOIAF or Mistborn or Kingkiller or Malazan or Prince of Nothing?

>those people who are constantly editing the original publication dates of the Iliad and the Odyssey

>ancient work of literature
>the last chapters/verses are thought to be written by another author
>the attributed author is believed to be a pseudonym for another famous author of the time period
>the author may have been a team of multiple people

>>14913127
>>14913165
>Barron is too retarded to understand Silence and The Young Pope
>""""based""""

>>14891618
>no China
>no Japan
>no India
>no Persia/Iran

>>14418907
>Chapter isn't named
>Chapter doesn't begin with an introductory poem
>Chapter doesn't begin with a brief summary of what happens in the chapter
>Chapter doesn't end with "Read our next Chapter if you would know what happens next."

>>14225110
>"dude just learn to separate the art from the author, I'm totally not racist"
>"Okay, why do you like Lovecraft?"
>"The fact that the cat was called nigger gave me a boner"

>>14015363
>he doesn't receive blowjobs while reading