/lit/ - Literature

>>17776594
well memed, now stop shitposting

>>17776594
lol

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>>17776737
That’s 9gag tier

>>17776765
but it’s true

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>>17776770
books came before the dictionary pseud
the dictionary is a farily modern idea

>>17776737
>once you’ve listened to a sine wave sweep from 20 to 20k Hz all music is just a remix

>>17776765
You mean it's good?

>>17777186
Change this to “all of our copies”

>>17777443
and make it an angry mob instead of one guy

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>>17776904
based and true

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>>17778766
Do you have the original picture of anon's diary on the left?

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>>17778805
A real Don Quixote.

>>17778797
I’ve only got this low res version.

>>17778820
Thanks friend

>>17776594
No.

>>17776594
Butterfly

>>17776737
this is true of the bible.
especially the arts - most of that is copy and paste biblical symbolism and understanding. to the point where simple people are using it and being too obvious like the evangelion series.

>>17778791
What is this?

>>17776594
Is anyone going to make an edit with the new get?

Bitter jannies deleted it.

>>17778964
just take a screenshot yourself you lazy shit

>>17778967
But I don't want to go on warosu.

>>17778895
Reading Shakespeare feel like reading the inventor of the English language. It's crazy how influential he was. Even my native language of German has taken all sorts of formulations from him. Just look at this shit:

http://www.pathguy.com/shakeswo.html

>>17776594
This one used to be obligatory. What happened?

>>17779048
corn (zea mays) wasn't a thing until 1492 in Europe. that's a funky mistranslation.

>>17779077
From which books are the first three texts?

>>17778905
Two guys promoting their shitty books on here.

>>17779145
QRD?

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>>17779070
It's not a mistranslation. Corn just means grain. The most common corn in the Americas was maize, so yanks started referring to it as corn.

>>17779207
This. But the pictures in the meme are still wrong.

>>17776594
O Muse help me out here with your divine recall, was it PussySlayer97 or CuntDestroyer88 that teabagged the BasementDweller with his shining helmet and won lasting glory?

>>17779133
this never fails to make me laugh

>>17777777
sorry lads allow me

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>>17779288
aaahhhh how wonderful
every janny must perish

>>17779142
not sure, but i know that swedenborg did shit like that

>>17777777
why is it deleted

>>17779184
Based.

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>>17779128
we need more of these

Does anyone have the copypasta about the guy who let his girlfriend borrow his dad's first edition folio of Dante's Inferno?

>>17779440
it was a digits thread

>>17779751
do you have a screencap?

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>>17779797
it's not that
for fucks sake, I can see the original image in this thread>>17778964

>>17779900
jesus use a fucking bookmark

>>17779909
If it doesn't make sense, why translate it in the first place?

>>17779975
it's for us clever autodidacts to get and fail to understand

>>17779909
So what did it mean?

>>17779993
"it's going to snow" sounds like "bitchass nigga" in Croatian, should be pretty obvious

>>17779993
a part of the sentence spoken by the old man is "bice sniga" which sounds like bitch ass nigga in English
now laugh

>>17779861
It is that, the same image was attached to the get.

>>17779077
That Wittgenstein line will never not be funny to me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGDH3meSPyk

>>17780005
Is anyone keeping tabs on India? What the fuck are they up to over there?

>>17780980
anime was a mistake

>>17780005
>bice sniga
Reminds me of that song
Bilo je junaka
Bilo i bice
Sunce slobode sada nam svice
Bilo je i onih koji nisu fer
Al' jedan je Mauzer

Panteri Panteri
Vi ste hrabri momci
Najhrabriji nasi
Srpski dobrovoljci
Podvizi vasi
To su prave seme
Ta ste pravi borci
Pokazalo vrijeeeeemeeeeeeee

>>17778805
>i am going to drink a glass of water
kek

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>>17779194
The Holy Spirit'll do that.

>>17776594
lmao the Illiad is basically just Alterac Valley

>>17779861
Lol, anon made a mistake.

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>>17776904
True tho

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>>17777903
Done

>>17781741
Amazing

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>>17782374
I've read 100s of books and infinite jest is probably top 5.

>>17782369
this only serves to make me want to read foucault

>>17782416
You ought to. yer meme understanding will improve after doing so.

>>17780005
how is indian tiktok so based

>>17779048
Is this a meme for people who haven't read the book? I don't fucking get it, Caesar doesn't really talk about agriculture.

>>17782317
nice

>>17780005
Why does he get slapped so easily by a manlet?

>>17779226
Obviously part of the joke

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>>17782552
will see tomorrow if it's nice, my brain is done for today

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>>17779142
Two is the tractatus

>>17782339
is this real

>>17782817
yes

>>17782382
It's alright

>>17779048
literally everyone who browsed then is gone

>>17778805
Actually made me laugh, fuck.

>>17784806
the HP=TP principle

>>17784781
I am still here somehow but this thread is making me wish otherwise. How do we purge the board of newfags?

>>17782630
I guess you were "the idiot" for expecting otherwise hehe

>>17784806
harry potter bros...

>>17784806
funny until the wrong "then" was used

>>17782454
lmao

>>17784806
absolute kek

>>17778795
Based oldfag meme

>>17779922
that's a book that got wet

>>17779900
I can’t explain why, but I want to fuck the bottom one

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>>17784781
This makes me sad. Also makes me feel old.

>>17778750
Kek this is true

>>17779581
how can i speak such english , what do i need to learn

>>17785472
the complete works of shakespeare, the king james bible, the dewie-reams bible, and the rest of the western canon

>>17782454
why does she hit him? who's fantasy is
that? is it a shared one?

>>17785628
It's his memory. God damn you were literally filtered by an Indian tiktok video

>>17784806
Top kek, don't know why I watched the whole thing

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>>17784781
Not me, but /lit/ does feel like a different place now.

>>17779581
Who was right in this situation?

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>>17784987
might be, good point

>>17785472
write normally and replace common words with obscure ones using a thesaurus (even I can see some flaws in that writing)

>>17776853
>getting baited by memes almost old enough to drink

>>17780988
India still has a caste system and also zero sense of shame

>>17780988
>Is anyone keeping tabs on India?
The Chinks
>>17780988
>What the fuck are they up to over there?
Raping and shitting

>>17784806
the dullest franchise pasta is the greatest thing /tv/ has ever given to the world
makes me laugh my ass off every single time

>>17784781
gone where? I'm still here.

>>17782332
More accurately should be Charles Baudelaire

>>17778750
I love this book but yeah.

>>17778750
Whaaat? You mean Mishima didn't intend exactly that?

>>17782382
just off the top of my head, cubism isn't the genesis point of "modern art" if anything that'd be manet/courbet. also minimalist sculpture was/is really fucking popular with corporations, which is why you see it in front of office buildings everywhere. surrealism should be in the red quadrant

>>17784806
>spielberg
>art
lmao

>>17785875
lost hard

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>>17782630
I made this one, nice to see that this one survived.

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>>17782339
I have a more complete version with the Orangutan

>>17782454
HOW CAN SHE SLAP

>>17789806
t.

>>17776737
>Once you observe an electron everything is just

>>17779900
>reading as a hobby vs reading for uni

>>17780988
india is making chad meme kino with their cellphones. their fluid and dynamic flair and style is unfettered by western irony.

>>17785628
Just give up on books at this point they'll all just go over your head

>>17790488
If you don't think the right side is better than the middle then you don't belong on lit

>>17792902
shut up leftypol

>>17782369
L

>>17782308
wtf did I just read?

>>17793688
pynchon fucking sucks

>>17778800
I'm about halfway through and that's how I'm feeling.

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>>17781572
He is the Whey

>>17793688
this is cute

is this from the old days? i'm so old now

>>17790725
kek

>>17793688
Nice dubs. Also I browse all three of those boards. Fun crossover

>>17792938
Are you calling me leftypol for liking Oswald Spengler's works?

>>17792938
Also if you had done an ounce of research you could've figured out that everything you're looking for from Spengler, outside of being some rank fascist(and I mean real fascist not what fools think is fascism these days) punditry, could be found in the far shorter "Hour of Decision". Just go read that it covers his apocalyptic view of Western decline and the future of the white man

>>17782332
Old but classic.

>>17794284
nah im good chief

>>17780988
indulging in pre-ironic style, flexing on gooks, designing missiles, investing in arms, making movies with heaps of dancing in them, etc.

>>17782345
Wallace, Camus, Joyce, ???, ???, Pynchon, Mishima, ???, ???

>>17782345
Wallace, Camus, Joyce, Faulkner, McCarthy, Pynchon, Mishima, Lin, Houellebecq

>>17794514
thank you my friend

>>17785472
It's not worth it, it will hurt you. Every time you use a word or expression that normies don't understand, they will say "huh?" and then you will have to repeat yourself with simpler language. You will never be able to communicate with others using the vocabulary you develop.

>>17794466
how do you not recognize Faulkner and McCarthy

>>17793708
Ha!

>>17779581
Things like this make waddling through all the shit here worthwhile

my favorite meme is recommending Phenomenology Of Spirit to YA booktubers.

>>17790725
>he answered, "No"
lmao reminds of lynch and primary colors

>>17790533
This is the best version of the picture, the additions ruin it

>>17793688
What's this artist name, I can still remember the thread he did on /co/ a few years ago.

>>17790725
wtf did I just read

>>17778803
lmfao

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>>17779900
mind roastie
>the wonders of life once resting so easily in his eyes, now gone

>>17792229
underrated

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literally all reddit-tier

>>17800180
what kind of fucking autist would click on every single post

>>17799666
It’s just jokes right?

>>17800318
there's scripts that do that for you

>>17779133
and the mome raths outgrabe

>>17801028
I had no idea that book was so huge. You can hangglide with that thing.

>>17800974
>If you were less like you, you would only be ridiculous, but thus as you are, you are highly annoying.

Damn, it's odd to see a mother clearly taking so much pleasure in insulting her own son.

>>17778791
link to these books?

>>17793708
>"You call this a musical?" asked Les miserably.
gah fuck that one got me

>>17801199
I know People Mover is on amazon you could probs google it

>>17782388

uehueuheueheuhueuhe

I wonder how many f*cebook and r*ddit posts get made from these bottom of the barrel threads.

>>17800974
Based version

>>17802951
Context?

>>17793708
Very sensible chuckle

>>17802951
Is this the best footnote of all time?

>>17790725
the milk pussy one and the orangutan one kill me everytime

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>>17801199
The amount of newfags on this board....

>>17779184
Truly Wallacian. A post-modern masterpiece as it were.

>>17776620
underrated post

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>>17778797
That's an illustration from one of Tove Janssons moomin books. I would guess "Moominland Midwinter" by the tone of the picture. They are great books, but i can't vouch for the English translation.

>>17803296
what is it?

>>17795944
But whenever you share with them a new word, it adds to their vocabulary. If anything, talking to them like normal out of cynicism simply perpetuates stagnant language

>>17782308

okay i'm going to reveal myself as the retard i am and ask: what site are the green screenshots from. the explain deleuze post is also in that format. what site is it?

>>17779581
Most overrated meme. Reddit level of cringe

>>17803965
Most often it's one of the archive sites. 4chanX will usually link you there if a thread 404s

Hey guys i gotta meme 4 u !!!!!
lit memes b like... same unfunny shit for last 4 years!!!!
twiiterr screencaps !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

>>17804126
The only people who post memes in these threads dont actually read. Theyre just like the /fit/ meme guys where they saw some "funny" images here that made them feel smart because instead of joking about peoples races on /pol/ they can joke about surface level literature and philosophers.
Only midwit worthless individuals find:
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funny.
>>17803804
Every single poster from around the time this was posted are gone. Twitter philosophers and /pol/ morons ruined /lit/ years ago.

>>17778803
A hip-hop Odyssey would be kino

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>>17804167
I hate zoomers. I still remember when the /lit/ humor threads shifted from being screenshots of recent funny /lit/ posts to "check out this gay facebook meme I found," where the punchline is "heh I recognize that shallow Foucault reference ;) I read 60 pages of Discipline and Punish for a class once ;)."

You run into a lot of these people at college. "Meme" enthusiasts who think Facebook spontaneously generates them. No sense of humor or timing, no sense that they're looking at the same half-joke regurgitated ten times. I envy normalfags. They can enjoy anything, no matter how diluted and derivative.

>>17804167
do we just suffer now? where do we go?

>>17804246
>"'Meme' enthusiasts who think Facebook spontaneously generates them."
this

>>17804267
you tell me
look at >>17803965
In the same thread for "teh lit funnieezz" is a zoomer newfag asking how to fucking get to the archive.
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>>17804246
One demographic to blame are the instagram "lit memes and greentexts" accounts. I once looked at a few and it was just the most surface level garbage thats ever come out of this site. And the comments arent better. All teenagers asking "what book is that", "what do I read", pretending like their ACTUALLY gonna fucking read the greeks or a philosopher. Farthest theyll go is maybe theyll buy some meme book like fanged noumena, read 15 pages and go back to "le memeing"

And I thought the orthodox larpers from 2017-18 were bad.

>>17804330
It's a testament to 4chan's anti-newfaggotry immune system that we even maintain the formal boundary between newfag and oldfag, years into newfag colonization.

>>17778750
read Runaway Horses

>>17776594
Posting formulaic garbage like this makes you look like an actual imbecile. Humor is comes from the subversion of expectation. If you don't already get what the joke is pretty much gonna be from just the thumbnail, you might just be slow as brick.

>>17804330
literature is all i have. to hell with this truth.

>>17784781
I'll never leave.

>>17804330
>their
>has strong opinions about memes on 4chan and Instagram
Ngmi

>>17801156
There's A LOT to say, Anon

>>17804580
still the best

>>17781534
i really tried connecting it to Dark souls or Berserk but couldnt designate any of these characters. Apparently its based on the New sun books, i have to read those if they have this type of setting

>>17803965
its the screen of a chan archive like >>/lit/

>>17782459
yeah it's just a meme among Latin students who hate reading Caesar and would prefer to read poetry or some other faggot shit

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>>17776853
Can you relax?

>>17782459
A quarter to a third or so of the Commentaries on the Gallic wars is taken up by matters of logistics and food gathered from loyal Germanic tribes. The rest is troop movements and battles, so the meme is less relatable.

But when you move on to his Commentaries on the Civil Wars, you find more and more discussion of grain and food shortages and the image becomes more relatable.

The corn is clearly a mistranslation, but that also helps make the meme funnier.

>>17779922
Jesus, just take the joke and fucking move on.

>>17782404
Fucking lost

>>17804167
where did they go?

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>>17805186
saved

>>17805186
>dying without fame or recognition

Oof.

>>17804246
>ugh, 'member le olde /lit/?
>I hate zoomers
>still in college by the way
What a faggot Gen Zenner you are Anon.

>>17782552
>kill leftie
>save hitler
>cute cancer
you cannot lose

>>17802982
>Not knowing based Ted

>>17805414
>You run into a lot of homeless people in the library.
He must be in the library RIGHT NOW!

>>17802982
He's the Unabomber.

>>17805186
this is actually good

>>17804167
What does the pig one have to do with philosophy. It's just a short story told through that oat meme

>>17803055
No, the best footnote was revealed to me once in a dream.

>>17806166
>he wasnt there via reincarnation
ngmi

>>17790533
>It makes no pretense to be exhaustive.
this sounds like a xavier renegade angel quote

>>17803396
where are you from moominbro?

>>17776594
Again?

>>17805186
Dangerously good

>>17778800
Pretty much

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>>17792229
Kek

>>17776620
lel

This is it. If I write one more word, it’ll be the furthest in this story I’ve ever been.

>>17779194
I look like the guy on the left. How do I look like a guy on the right?

>>17804347
Have sex, incel

>>17778750
You will never be a woman.

>>17808695
Lift heavy for a few years.

>>17808695
Do this I suppose
https://youtu.be/F020aNi0wS0

>>178086954
>SS+GOMAD
(But actually do a linear progression program with heavy compounds and eat more food and eat much more meat)

Read the /fit/ sticky and don't get distracted by the board much just get a gym membership at a gym with barbells and racks (not smith machines) and lift heavy. You want to be the dude deadlifting 500+ lbs at <15% bodyfat, not the dude "working his way up" to free weights only to make no gains and still be weak the first few months you hit free weights. Some machines are based, but ignore them for now and just do stuff with a barbell, follow a program from the /fit/ sticky (I liked Greyskull LP personally followed up with MadCow when I stalled), and keep track of your progression every time you lift then you'll be stronger than most normie lifters in a few months.

I fell for the machines and cardio meme and made no gains for a year despite consistently going to the gym several times a week. Read the sticky and go to a gym (not Planet Fitness) if you can read a book you can read the damn sticky. Don't read /fit/ threads til you've been lifting for a month or so (and never go to Reddit). Also if you fall off the gains wagon and get fat and don't lift for like a year, you'll still be strong and can recover your strength fairly quickly thanks to focusing on strength.

If you want to do splits or something else cute worry about that later. Just pick a program, do it, and get strong. It's a nice confidence boost being stronger than the other folks in your gym and most of the people you know. You may also inspire friends/family to get swole as well, but the gainspill takes more autism than most people can muster to swallow it (not that it is necessarily hard, just that you have to go do a thing most consider a chore and keep doing it consistently). You'll make dumb mistakes and figure things out as you go just like any other skill or hobby.

>tldr just read the fucking sticky it's not perfect
>not perfect is still better than awful though and most fitness info is AWFUL

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Meant for>>17808695

Accidentally deleted a number in the reply and then hit 4 instead of 5


This counts as /lit/ because it's a book

>>17803901
What am I missing here?

>>17804759
I literally thought they were the Garlic wars until reading this post.

>>17779048
because /lit/ died a long time ago.

Notice how few threads are actually about books now instead of diary entries, twitter nonsense and philosophy fags

>>17809349
He's afraid of fishies

>>17779142
First one is "The technological society" by Jacques Ellul