/lit/ - Literature

>>12685164
Capitalism is only good until it's not, same with liberalism. Not keeping a cautious eye on these accelerating trends just because you favour them relative to some opposite extremes is very limited and binary thinking (a.k.a. really stupid).

Why don't people understand spectra? Is it really that difficult an insight to internalize?

>>7790554
Another opening line/paragraph that, in peoples opinion, revivals 'Call me Ishmael' is from The Adventures of Augie March by Bellow. It go like dis:

I am an American, Chicago born – Chicago, that somber city – and go at things as I have taught myself, free-style, and will make the record in my own way: first to knock, first admitted; sometimes an innocent knock, sometimes a not so innocent.