/lit/ - Literature

>>20361055
there is no element A and it DOES NOT form triple bonds with itself

>>19098989
>Give me the based and redpilled answer.
Wow, another fake trad to make actual practicing Christians on here look even worse. You don't deserve scripture till you drop this attitude. Go jack off to Nick Fuentes feminist refutation videos.

>X is valid!
AAAAAAAAAAAAH

>>14526709
DON'T RUIN MY SPINES YOU VILE HAG

>>12562821
Quoth the Raven "I-I'm gonna say the N-word!"

>>10806702
>I don't give a fuck about symbolism
NOMINALISTS GET OUT

>>9894023
How can you understand something when you come in with a view already so biased and mislead?

Your picture of your enemy is a mere caricature built of nothing but strawman arguments from people commenting on the phenomenon.

You say you try and engage in rational debate but you've failed at that before you've even begun.

Jesus Christ is this what a pseudo intellectual is?

>>9757331
>Bait is when you're trying to coax someone into taking you seriously, and responding seriously to you, when you're not being serious and just trying to fuck with them.
Yes and your posts, full of overconfidence and excuses, seem like something you would find on /b/
if you really are being serious then please listen: you are not a good writer. even with no sleep and a pressureized situation, someone with even a bit of writing talent could write much better than this. Don't be discouraged, though, because you actually have the capacity to LEARN, that is what college is for. Get out of the high school mentality where teachers praise subpar work because it is better than even shittier work, and learn how to improve rather than blaming external circumstances.
i am a college senior now and when i look back at writing from sophomore year, let alone high school, i cringe really hard at how bad it was and some of them even received decent grades.

>I guess the most unmitigated joyful moment of my life was when my favorite author Gene Wolfe told me the great unifying secret of his cryptic New Sun/Long Sun/ Short Sun books, but nobody who is a fan of those books believes me anyway.

spill the beans RITE NAO

I suppose this thread will die again. Keep talking about Sam Harris, Slavoj Zizek, and Donald Trump again for the 20th time. I'm sure you'll be better off for it.

>>9300492

going to be a junior in the Fall at Kenyon. i can say its a pretty comfy place, there are /lit/ people, and there are un-/lit/ people, but you get that everywhere.

hope you live in Lewis.

if you (like everyone else) plan to be an English major, don't, major in Philosophy instead, or double major, its very popular here.

though we made him, most of us do hate John Green.

its a small campus, so we'll probably meet unknowingly next fall.

good luck.

>be me, freshman at top ivy, Fall 2016
>decide to take an intense, one book a week paced year-long humanities course that's offered in lieu of the writing requirement
>get to read homer, plato, aristotle, sophocles, shakespeare, the founding fathers, ulysses, etc,
>"this is gonna be great, lectures are taught by a rotating series of top professors, you get assigned a seminar with a top professor, and you get weekly writing courses with nice TFs"
>BIGGEST FUCKING LIE

>lectures are totally unrewarding, except for one dude who actually conducts himself as a serious literary critic, but only gets a chance to lecture once
>another prof on Shakespeare: ITS LUCRETIUS BRO, THE RENAISSANCE WAS ALL ABOUT LUCRETIUS, READ MY BOOK BRO... hell at least this lecture was interesting. I could have put together 90% of other lectures.
>one professor does nothing but brag about how he met toni morrison and gabriel garcia larquez in Mexico
>same professor often started seminars by reading passages out loud from the book, like popcorn reading shit we did in elementary school
>eventually found out that he's a half-Mexican anthropologist, focusing on Aztec mythology
>why the fuck is he in this course? diversity.
>seminars full of wealthy, snobby students, often foreigners, bashing middle class white people because it's election year.
>have to hold back my tongue to deal with these arrogant shits, sparing them from a thrashing the likes they have never seen
>get an essay pushed back a week because of the election, have to fake having tears or get ostracized by peers
>final lecture with student-submitted questions, final question is "Which one of our selected works should the president read?"
>lucretius-bro professor couldn't help but pander to a class of snot-nosed freshmen and say "the federalist papers" for cheap laughs
>mfw some people (not me, TY financial aid) are paying $60,000 for this experience that can be emulated for free on the Huffington Post
>get 10% taken off final grade because I didn't go out one of the few outings that always filled up by the time I was able to respond... an A knocked down to B+ for an event that's otherwise meant to inflate GPA
>learned literally nothing except that Plato is an unrepentant badass, that Cortez did nothing wrong, and I loathe the people I interact with at this school
>mfw I'm done with liberal arts and I declare a major in chemical biology

Never. Fucking. Again. The only worthwhile experience was encountering people who seemed genuinely into literature, which inspired me to strengthen my analytical skills. Otherwise, these people, professors and students included, were nothing more than hacks and aliens. Completely fucking bewildered by how some of these people manage to breathe. Go to these schools only for the fucking name on a piece of paper. You will have your individuality and your sanity robbed at corner.

>>9177917
M8 a song of ice and fire is not shit, also the show got back on track on season 6

>>9068946

read the fucking syllabus you jackass, the focus and implications of the course are spelled out for you in plain English

you are going to study these "classics" of rap, you're going to be relating them to social problems, and you will most likely be being told that there are prescribed solutions based along ideological lines

it's a brainwashing course disguised as a second-rate literature course

>>8854976
>tfw you're a misanthrope and the book has a happy ending

>>8849838
>roman a clef

>>8680569

Besides the Bible, what will make hate this gay world?

>Love not the world, nor the things which are in the world. If any man love the world, the charity of the Father is not in him.
>Adulterers, know you not that the friendship of this world is the enemy of God? Whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world, becometh an enemy of God.

>professor has Celiac disease and farts all day, every day

>>8590550
>>8590608
>furries
200000x worse than weebs

There arent any.

How long does it take to learn German?

>ideas