/lit/ - Literature

When you realize that Wotan hanged himself on yggdrasil and gave his eye that we may put the ancient wisdom to word

>>18639375
It's pretty simple, the esoteric/exoteric distinction is an 'inner church/outer church' ie: those with the spare time, money and intelligence to be able to really understand and investigate ideas, and those who are too busy with other things; family, business etc, so instead they inherit a basic form. Most ideological constructions have this model, simple, but with interesting implications.

>>17837369
Top tier post, always entertaining to see these useful idiots get destroyed.

>>16749012
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Which Genre/Author/Book has the most annoying fanbase in your opinion, and why?

>>13493017
There are no benefits from "PC culture". At best it leads to people being oversensitive and even more childish, at worst, and most likely, it leads to censorship. Tell me one benefit of PC culture.
And if you want people to be polite then make duels to death legal again and give people guns.

>>11072716
>they're different

I have been working on this piece of shit for way too long. Please help me to make the next thing better. I tried posting this in the old thread but it died.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AiX8XiQY8sHY6OPDR5_iz0uEnmNkA4HUU7LXf1nNd7s/edit?usp=sharing

I've been working on this piece of shit for way too long. Please help me to make the next thing better.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1AiX8XiQY8sHY6OPDR5_iz0uEnmNkA4HUU7LXf1nNd7s/edit?usp=sharing

>>9924534
Here is a list of buzzwords/phrases that are guaranteed to give you an A if you use them:

>White hegemony
>Marginalized voices
>Oppression
>Patriarchy
>Institutional racism
>Soft racism
>Microaggressions
>Heteronormative
>Cultural appropriation
>Otherization

Just say the magic words OP and your prof will have to give you that A!

>>7780872
So what?

I could write a book about diaper furries and make them pitiable wretches that everyone agreed on them being noxious and unlikable. That doesn't really require skill, and neither does writing annoying 1st-world problem whiners.

Successfully making annoying stereotypical characters doesn't correspond to successfully making the book pleasurable to read. Focusing solely on characters that I wished would vanish from the narrative inevitably led to me wishing that I myself was done with the narrative.

Making characters I 'love to hate' or better yet 'hate to love' is an accomplishment. Making characters I hate and also derive no enjoyment from hating is a failure of entertainment, though I will say the book is not entirely unentertaining. It is almost entirely the fault of the grey wretches of the cast that the book falters, but without them I think there are some other virtues by which it may be buoyed upward.

Ignoring entertainment, on the front of any alleged 'education' the book may provide, if 'the point' is that
>>7776858
>"No matter how fantastic magic is, it can never be truly fulfilling."

well frankly, I'm unmoved by such a statement, both in utility, and in truth, and in beauty.

Magic is made up, so making sweeping statements about 'magic' is laughable. But ignoring the letter for the spirit, a fair message could be 'power is not innately fulfilling' or 'achieving desire does not free one from desire.' But the unfulfilled, yet powerful individual is neither an original concept, nor one that exists in an intriguing form in these books. In fact, I rather think the treatment of the concept is too limited by a lack of vision and a certain obliviousness on the part of the author as to their own cultural morass. 'A literal God for a moment' is inconsequential? Quentin feels a void in his life? Those sounds like his problem, and by 'his' problem, I mean 'a particular feckless, small-minded, and regrettably popular worldview sold to modern young adult audiences in an attempt to make money from the middle-brow consumers, whose wallets are resistant to low-brow media sensation.'

It's not dreadful, but I don't think it's anything new or challenging at all. It stands tall in the crowd, it's true, but it mistakes height for flight, while it is just as ground-bound as the rest of the pedestrians.