/lit/ - Literature

>>23114189
>only the curly haired one in the back on the left looks like he has his life together, probably the fed of the group
My sides

>Away from his work, the doctor was withdrawn and absentminded. On the day he was supposed to show Queen Victoria around the wards of the National Hospital, for instance, he forgot to arrive.
>Social and cultural affairs bored him, with one exception: he loved to read, especially the novels of Austen and Dickens and popular thrillers by William Wilkie Collins and Arthur Conan Doyle.
>But books themselves meant nothing to Jackson. He often tore out and discarded pages as he read them, and even cut from borrowed neurology textbooks the sections he wanted to reread. One afternoon, a salesboy in a bookstore gawked as the prim, bearded doctor tore off the cover of a volume he had just purchased and ripped the text in two, so as to fit half the book in each coat pocket.
>Catching the boy's stare, Jackson solemnly explained, "You think I'm mad, my boy, but it's the people who don't do this who are mad".

>Schopenhauer
>Techno
>Contemplation
>4chan
Simple as

>>20897957
>"What we need is a few good taters."
>"What's taters, precious? What's taters, eh?"
"Po-tay-toes. Boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew. Lovely big golden chips with a nice piece of fried fish. Even you couldn't say no to that."
"Oh yes we could. Spoilin' nice fish. Give it to us raw and wrigglin'. You keep nasty chips."
>"You're hopeless."
you don't know what you're missing, some of its exchanges are truly iconic

plagiarismtoday.com article:
>For those who missed it, author Jumi Bello published an essay with the goal of explaining why her upcoming book was cancelled for plagiarism.
>However, that essay contained parts that were plagiarized (albeit with heavy rewriting) from a 2011 post on this site

>>20164392
Cetology

>>20132599

>>20026823
>I just use wordpad and leave the file unencrypted

>Bookman Old Style

>>19819158

Why, yes, I do skip the introduction and the endnotes. How could you tell?

>>19487539
Exactly

>>19233979
>le technology
>le human invention will save me

It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in humans.
It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in princes.

>>19185197
>a Jew can go to a bathhouse that is also a holy site to Aphrodite without it being "idolatry"

>>19042565
>According to Seneca, Plato died at the age of 81 on the same day he was born. A variety of sources have given accounts of his death. One story, based on a mutilated manuscript, suggests Plato died in his bed, whilst a young Thracian girl played the flute to him.

>>18999015
>"a fool does... a man of understanding does..."

>>18884974
>my psychology can best be understood by reading the Bionicle lore from 2000 to 2010

>The Bible says the earth is flat? Wow, I guess it really is then!

>>18821919
>The only driving force in my life is the nagging desire to be better than other people
Based and same. I've been trying to build a fortune, with the sole intend of using it to exercise power over others. I don't even need money apart from that.

Based. Having a multi-facetted and nuanced worldview is literally only for leddit cuckolds. For me, it's pure ideological devotion or bust. Unironically, btw.

>>18773304
>Asks a guy if he reads female authors
>"I don't read any books by women

>meditate every day
>literally don't give a single shit what some streetshitter said about enlightenment
Praise Jesus.

>I don't read books written by women.
>But anon, I saw you reading Frankenstein by Mary Shelley last week and Emma by Jane Austen just yesterday!
>If I read the books they've written, then by definition they are not women.

>women dumb