/lit/ - Literature

I'd prefer early XX century Lisboa.

10/10, would steal.

It sounds awful.

I used to kind of respect Sasha Grey when she was just a pornstar, but now that she's a wannabe intellectual/novelist/musician/painter and who knows what else, ugh...

captcha: baronet lacann

>>3726139
Yes?
My picture doesn't have to be relevant to every single thing in my post.

I'm mastering Portuguese.

America and especially the south is hugely important for me, my personality and vision are deeply rooted here.

Of course it would be the same if I were from anywhere else, and that doesn't make nationalism any less valid. Nationalism for me is not about being proud of the past accomplishments or any objective ''quality'' of my country, it's about loving and finding beauty in its land, its people and its culture, and being proud of that.

>beautiful woman

No such thing.

>>3693780
Thanks, that's some fine brazilian culture right there.

>>3693738
There's /ic/ but it's kind of shit.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ResTHKVxf4

>>3693749
I recognized the author but can't read the title.

>>3693736
That's wrong btw.

>>3693717
Can't read the first one.
The Wealth of Nations.
Introduction to Complex Thinking?
The Essays.

Pessoa, Mario de Sa-Carneiro, Cesario Verde.

>>3577178
lol

>>3577219
Poetic license?

>>3576931
I really don't feel that I have to clarify this. Read the whole post you were quoting, and the rest of the posts in the discussion.

>>3576845
I'm not really making assumptions about 4chan users in general, but this particular stereotype. Actually, I'm not making many huge assumptions, I've met multiple people who fit the stereotype exactly. Such group of people exists and what I say about it is not based on assumptions, but observations.

And I've honestly never heard of poetry being considered effeminate, so it was shocking to me. Maybe it's because of where I live, those things just don't happen here. I'm not sure I'm entirely convinced it happens in the rest of the world all that much, but it's possible, and it's entirely possible I'm wrong here. I didn't expect to have this discussion (as I didn't think other people considered such behavior normal), so I haven't put much thought into it.

>I agree that it should not be the case, but what should or should not be has little relevance on what is

Right, but it does have relevance on how we react to it. I'm not going to conform for something I disagree with just because it is the way it is.

>>3576892
I think he posted here by accident.

>>3576785
I'm not sure, I think one of them was, but not others.

>>3576772
I'm the same, that's why I was so surprised when I got that reaction more than a couple times online.

In other posts I'm actually arguing that it is uncommon.

>>3576742
Well, I don't do that.

>>3576648
Putting myself slightly above the way below average doesn't make me less humble.

>>3576652
I'm referring mostly to the community of places like /v/ and /r9k/, the stereotypical 4chan people.

>>3576646
Just to clarify, I don't put myself among ''actually educated and intelligent people'', I've failed high school, I don't have any higher education, I don't know shit about sciences and even though i read a lot, my vocabulary and language skills are limited and my knowledge is nothing in comparison to actual scholars, but I realize that and try to be humble, so I put myself slightly above the previously mentioned ''4chan people''.

>>3576573
I live in the deep south and virtually no one in my town has higher education, except maybe the highschool teachers (there's no college here so anyone remotely interested in studying moves away in their late teens), and I've never heard that ''poetry is for girls'' bullshit in real life. Everyone I've told about my interest in poetry and literature from here was nothing but impressed, in fact it seems that the more uneducated and humble the person is, the more they are impressed by my ''intellectual'' interests. In their heads, poetry and philosophy especially are very fancy and exclusive to super clever people.

The only people who really look down on such things are ignorant and arrogant teenagers and young adults. Actually, I remember being largely admired and looked up to in high school for being an ''intellectual'' (despite failing two years consecutively), I remember bringing poetry books to class and having people come to me fascinated asking about it, teachers complimenting me, loud bullies talking to me gently and with respect, etc. It never crossed my mind that people could be mocked for reading poetry until I came to 4chan. The thing is, the people who typically visit 4chan, that is, 16-22 year old male social outcasts who only read fantasy and sci fi and whose only hobbies are videogames and anime, are ignorant, but are still arrogant and still think they're smarter than everyone else. They're sort of in an uncanny valley between the common ignorant folk and actually educated and intelligent people. They're more articulated and arguably more intelligent than most people their age, but still not actually as smart and knowledgeable as they think they are.

>>3576470
The ''real world'', unlike 4chan, isn't predominated by ignorant late teens neckbeards, so such things don't happen very often, not outside of highschools anyway.

>>3576456
No, it's not. At least, it shouldn't be.