/lit/ - Literature

>>9291488
nothing, normally. just a block of 9 people who influence you. or, in practice, a block of 3 people who influence you, 2 people who you've read but not extensively, and 4 people whose wikipedia pages you've read

>>9292036
god made me in his image and i'm not b**k. check and mate

>>6905851
finnegans or molloy

>>6711956
it sounds like you're reading this for the first time while waking up after being sedated for a wisdom teeth extraction

>>6125534
>tfw you realize it was written to throw off the medici dogs and a man such as him wouldn't have risked his life for a satire, no matter how oblique

>>5844058
but is it wrong to harm others, unavoidably, in the course of an action that saves others? is it wrong to harm others as a means to this end? is it wrong to harm others if they're into that?

the only valid axiom is "do right, and only right, because it is right, and is all that is right"

>>5762183
vocabulary can't be taught, it's absorbed. the only time it should come up in class is when a student encounters a word they don't understand in the text, and even then context clues and etymology should be examined, not definition per se

more formal =/= longer =/= more accurate

>>5745847
SCIEEEENCE FICTIOOOON
>>5745849
>on this episode of /lit/ Says the Darndest Things
"are contractions allowed?"