/lit/ - Literature

>>10244249
>the only great scientists are the ones I did my high-school report on

>actually paying money for ebooks
>not reading
fixed you picrelated for you

>writing requires high IQ
You'd make an excellent writer.

>why does /lit/ meme a meme book

>>10201455
>that pleb who didn't have the entire western canon in hardcover at home and got excited about the scholastic shill fair

>>10193299
>buying a public domain text

>>10169157
>have to read a book to learn how to read a book

>>10167815
>the paganistic aspect of Nazism or any esoteric ideas
>he thinks aesthetical larping and ariosophic fanfiction had any impact or presence in mainstream NSDAP politics

>>10166617
>Why would you think that?
>no

>>10165388
>somebody on the internet acts in ways I don't approve of

>>10163303
>literary merit is based solely on what I like or don't

>>10160530
>Jewishness is genetic

In the Iliad, is it the demigods whose souls are described as issuing forth from wounds when they die and the mortals those described as engulfed by darkness at death? Or are either both stylistic devices with no implied differences?

>>10151129
>wow everything is like relative man so everything is like equally easy and equally difficult and you like can't pass value judgments at all

>>10149822
>draconian
>anti-piracy

>>10141579
>this level of brainletry
Misogyny is discrimination based on biological sex. Discrimination is unjust treatment of a particular subset of society. Whether it's conscientious and deliberate or not is irrelevant. Whether the motive is irrational hatred or coherent product of ideology is irrelevant as well.
>society didn't think women are shit it just assigned them this particular role of being shit
Picrelated is you.

I just finished this book and I really don't think I understood it.
In Wilde's introduction he directly states that the purpose of art is purely aesthetic and without function, so how is Dorian's behavior (searching for beauty in art and wanting to preserve his own beauty) even considered immoral by Wilde's standards? On the same note, what was the point of that long section in the middle where he talks about tapestries and jewels? Again I didn't see what this has to do with Dorian's supposed descent into villainy as Wilde seems to seriously endorse a more shallow view of art and life. I don't see why someone couldn't live the life of an esthete without all of Gray's debauchery and be in pretty good shape.

Additionally, though obviously he's leading Dorian down a "bad" path and I felt like he was supposed to represent the devil or something, Harry was by far the most interesting and funniest character, and it seemed like a lot of his remarks/observations were not only accurate but meant to be taken as an unironic critique of the society, so I was unsure what I was supposed to think of him.

I guess I just really didn't understand any of the commentary on art or society in this book and didn't see it's connection to the main plot about Dorian and the painting.

>>10113994
Grammar clearly isn't your strong suit.

>>10090690

>>9967904
>causing him to nearly bumped into

The biggest cope perhaps of all time is that reading makes you more intelligent.

Imagine a short and ugly man trying to lift weights and inject steroids because he thinks it will make him a ripped chad. But the truth is that his fate was ironclad and predetermined. He will never get laid like a natural 6'2 chad with superior genes. Just like no matter how many books you read, your understanding of everything in the world will fall short of someone with an intrinsically greater mind.

In a similar vein, you cope by thinking that reading poorly translated russian literature from the 1800s, that has lost all of its context and subtleties, will genuinely make you more intelligent and superior to others, when intelligence is likewise genetic and predetermined. And if you are genuinely intelligent, what's the point? There is no great point to be gleaned here through reading literature. It's just passive consumption.

Reading won't enrich your life or make you a better thinker. It's just a worthless hobby where all you do is consume, just like a dumb teenager playing dota, except maybe 10 more IQ points his better. You're still a passive consumer creating nothing, unless you are an actual writer yourself. You have no right to feel superior over the 'brainlets' unless you are actually involved in the action of creation, since you yourself are but a mere dull scrounger! Even a stupid chad writing retarded 3 chord songs to play on his guitar, or an autistic korean kid playing starcraft is doing something more impressive than you, because that actually requires effort. You're just scanning your eyes across a page; sucking up the poorly translated ideas of some drunken slav from 200 years ago, and misinterpreting them, which takes all of five seconds to do.

>>9667720
>Wagner died 1883
>Nietzsche died 1990
>Hitler born 1889
hahahahahah nice b8 m8
at least I hope it's a bait otherwise you are fucking retarded

>>9615042
>22
>California
>"A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" and "The Autobiography of Malcolm X"

I'm mostly focused on Joyce. I've enjoyed it so far but I'm not sure I really "get" why people idolize Joyce, I feel like it's a book I'll understand only after reading it twice. Don't get me wrong the prose is fantastic and it's "come alive" to me at certain points, mostly when he discusses/thinks about art, but the rest feels almost undiscovered to me if that makes sense.

This is fuckin neato, but man I wish I could read cursive more easily