/lit/ - Literature

>>1790489

good argument.

maybe you should read the paper first.

D&E, you would get along with my friend Trevor and i.

we would all have some interesting conversations.

the idea behind having a critical community is, at least to some extent, to identify the features of literature as a toolset for living or interpreting, and to teach those tools or discuss their value (they may only be tools for enhancing aesthetic experience, if you don't buy postcolonialism or anything, but that still counts). this must necessarily involve the privileging of some texts over others, and THAT must necessarily involve attempted development of some kind of agreed-upon rubric of quality.

i think the source of some disagreement might be pedagogy. the academic environment basically prepare you to teach, and one tries to teach things that are useful in this way. this may not be a rubric of literary evaluation that the layperson is interested in at all, but they run the risk then of disagreeing with a whole field of people that are attempting to find and identify life- and perspective-enhancing literature.

in other words i am at least speculatively entertaining the idea of agreeing with you.

Trevor published a paper called "A Newton for Leaves of Grass", which sort of attacks the fallacious but unquestioned assumption (in his opinion) that science can never approach an objective understanding of art.

good times.

>>1789894

who said anything about "a henpecked existence"?

we're talking about sexually and socially dominant women. they're a blast.

i didn't say anything about annoying or antagonistic people. those come in top and bottom, male and female versions.

>>1789859

you have no experience with dominant women. and that is sad.

i'm really into rough sex and S&M, and so is my wife.

one of my favorite souvenirs from our honeymoon is a set of photos i took of her bruises.

ayn rand is still a shitty writer.

>>1789715

what exactly would it take to prove to you that i'm objecting to her writing and not her ideology

The Passion According To GH

BA's in Comparative Literature and Communications

Cal State Long Beach

>>1789688

oh, you mean that chick Heidegger was boning?

in all seriousness, yeah, she's brilliant.

>>1789675

not if he wrote like that we wouldn't.

>>1789664

he's leagues better than ayn fucking rand.

>>1789663
>>1789666

yeah ditto. sometimes ze brain, it no work.

>>1789656

no, i hate her because she's a bad writer. i don't care about her politics. i read Heidegger for chrissakes. the man was a nazi.

guarantee

ensure

it allows my posts, ideas, and opinions to be strung together into a consistent identity or system of thought. people can reference things i previously said, we can connect multiple trains of ideas together, etc, and this makes for more interesting conversation.

His Dark Materials

song of solomon = hot

(i had to say it)

>>1789148

i lold

>>1788756

no, he doesn't. he didn't say it was ethically reprehensible. he just said it was boring.

everything you put on a social networking profile is for the purpose of garnering attention. what, do you not want anyone to read it?

beyond that, the only question is how isomorphic that information is with your actual attitudes.

>>1787358

oh yeah, i forgot about marquez. there's TONS in there

>>1787343

i mean, "good" relationship doesn't mean "conflict free" relationship; often it means just the opposite.

it might just be because conflict is more narratalogically interesting

although there are plenty of healthy conflicts within marriages that could be explored, i suppose. hey, what about chris kraus or anais nin?

>>1787183

agreed.