/lit/ - Literature

One morning, as Bugs was waking up from anxious dreams, he discovered that in bed he had been changed into a monstrous vermin. He lay on his fur-soft back and saw, as he lifted his head up a little, his large, pudgy abdomen divided up into tow grey and white sections. From this height the blanket, just about ready to slide off completely, could hardly stay in place. His tiny legs, pitifully thin in comparison to the rest of his circumference, waddled helplessly before his eyes.

>>12179949
Ask /pol/ Leaf faggot

>>12088899
>accomplished readers
>>12088906
this

I am currently in a doctoral program at a prestigious university in the US, not the absolute top tier of schools but the next step down. We're talking top 10 literature programs. My dissertation should be finished this winter. I used to browse here several years ago. Ask me anything

>>11775628
>be me, first year lit doctoral student at an ivy
>first class is Narrative Voices in Austen
>6.5 brunette qt takes the seat next to me
>ofuck.jpg
>mumble a hello and stick out my hand like a boomer
>she tentatively shakes and introduces herself. she's very sweet
>prof asks us what our favorite austen novels are
>ofuck.jpg
>say emma because it's the only one I can think of besides pride and prejudice
>qt says Mansfield Park
>class passes slowly, prof won't shut up about transatlanticity and theories of emergent colonialism
>time to leave, qt asks me what I'm doing later
>don't answer, instead respond with "I bet you'd like a man to feel your park"
Needless to say I took her anal virginity.

>>11288068
Bugs...easy on the carrots

To be fair, you have to have a very high IQ to understand /lit/.

Bugs...easy on the carrots

Bugs...esy on the mores

Some years ago - never mind how long precisely - having little or no tubers in my purse, and coming upon this furry and long-eared gentleman upon one of those walks which takes one close to destiny, I thought it fine to say "My friend, I fear you have had too many, and left too few for me, and so I say to you rest easy, let the tubers cease from coming to your mouth."

Whenever you open a thread here that contains 1000+ words, your knee-jerk reaction might be to close the tab and move on. I'm guilty of that myself. In this case, however, if you've been on the cusp of falling victim to this rather insidious strategy, I recommend you keep on reading. If you've been paying close attention, you've probably registered the nature of attacks on Jordan Peterson. They come in waves. First, they tried the transphobe strategy. It didn't work. Then, they tried the sexist strategy. That didn't work either. Last month's trend was the racist strategy. It's becoming increasingly apparent that the flavor of the month is the claim that Jordan Peterson is a cult leader. This, one has to admit, is incredibly clever, because it's supposed to function as a deep psychological assault. It sows a seed of self-doubt. Once the seed has been sown, the payload should go something like,

(a) "Oh, I do suppose I like him quite a bit. Oh yeah, he is earning quite a bit of money. Yes, my life has changed since I started listening ..."
(b) "Have I just been brainwashed? Am I just a blindly following cult member?"

Credit is due where credit is due. This is rather ingenius. Nobody wants to be a part of a cult. Nobody wants to feel manipulated and deindividualized. If the seed of doubt is sown, the payload should elicit a fear response. Even if the payload does not fully succeed, it might lead a fan to, at the very least, take a large step back, in fear of the possibility that they might be in the brainwashing process.So, let's take a good hard look at what a cult actually is, and do some comparisons.
Because there is little consensus regarding the term itself, I had to search quite a bit to find something which wasn't impossibly abstract. I found this one, which I believe to be quite accurate:A typical cult has a charismatic, unaccountable leader, persuades by coercion and exploits its members, economically, sexually or in some other way.

[Charismatic] Well-spoken, highly-educated. Let's play devil's advocate and check this one off.

[Unaccountable] Complete miss. Peterson argues for his points very openly and tells everyone who listens to hack at it if they find anything wrong. He is also very open about his own faults.

[Persuades by coercion] No point in spending time on this one, as it simply does not apply.

[Exploit: Economically] Peterson has never asked for money. He opened his Patreon, and people flocked to it in support. It was never solicited.

[Exploit: Sexually] :D

[Exploit: Other] I'm trying my best, but I really can't think of anything. Can you?

Now let's take a more holistic approach.

>>10480377
You lowkey mad af pham, smdh.

>dashes for dialogue
Is there anything more pretentious, more attention-seeking?

fuck your cheese bitch nigga

>BLACKEDRAW BLONDE GIRLFIREND CHEATING AT AFTER PARTY WITH BLACK PROMOTER
nice

>>10162773
For some reason, Don Quixote has one of the most rabid fanbases on /lit/, but I suspect it's mostly the spics who crawl out of their holes when a Shakespeare thread comes up to screech autistically.

Also, Cervantes is a one book wonder and Persiles and Sigismunda was the biggest dungpile of melodramatic trash I have ever read.

rick...easy on the pickles..

>>10088941
I'd lick the grease off her face till I get obesity.

>>10052789

On the train

>>9866116
snape.. easy on the necrophilia