/lit/ - Literature

>>20292901
>>20292919

People are writing and drawing horrible smut of my characters and there's nothing I can do to stop them.
All that time I spent researching authentic Medieval manuscripts, some of which in Old Proto-Gothic I had to learn specifically to read; a whole year spent in that Siberian monastery, showering with ice cold water just to access their library; all the Biblical and literary references, all the snippets of my private life I've so lovingly put into it... All this painstaking work, just for people to decide that the Dame of the Forest has a 30 inch dick she eats people with.
Fiction was a mistake, it's nothing but trash.

>>18281413
If you don't see any value in struggle, suffering, adversity, risk, or danger, than you literally are less than an animal. Even bugs understand the principle of sacrifice and taking risks to better their hive or colony and ensure its survival. If happiness is the end all be all for you, go crawl to a farm and eat pig slop, shithead.

>>17860404
>when you talk to women about philosophy
No thank you

>>17711630
>>but what about living virtuously
>Just don't be an asshole
Are you this stupid? "just don't be an asshole" is so different depending on the person. Different people have different standards of harm. Would I be an asshole for selling heroin? What if the buyer really wants it? you're being and asshole and a retard right now.
>one day we're all gonna die!
>none of the thinkers you'll have studied will have given you answers on anything
Philosophy has given me all the answers I needed. Living with discipline, making a happy and loving home, being a pillar of the community, and working on improvement. How would the 'don't be an asshole' philosophy work when dealing with kids? Are you an asshole to not give kids what they want? spanking kids? What if you disagree with your wife? are you an asshole then? Is she an asshole? What a 6th graders interpretation of philosophy, it's pure leftism

>>16702520
Bukowski is a faggot. His writing is the grossest view of the world, which I obviously understand is part of the point, but in practice it's just him whining while refusing to do anything about the filthy state of the world. That mindset of victimhood and blaming the world for your problems is the most beta brain you can cultivate. Not to mention the gross hedonism of smoking and drinking. What a cope.

>>16048506
>House on Mango Street
fuck, that was some awful time.
I remember my buddy and I once read Catch-22 after we read A Farewell to Arms. Both of us liked it immensely, especially more than Hemingway and we asked our teacher why we didn't read it in class.
>We used to assign it, but people complained it was too confusing and they didn't get it.
This was an honors class.

>>16051238
It's a shit book, and I'm not even joking or memeing. It reads like the average girl's diary, so there's precious little plot, and it's completely self centered. It's kind of like a dumber version of the first part of 'The Sound and the Fury' in the way a retard in narrating things and you have to sometimes take context clues to figure it out. The chapter where she's gang-raped is her blaming her friend for leaving her alone and she keeps repeating 'Sally you lied'. Ask an autist what they did that day and you'll get a more cohesive and fulfilling story.
'House on Mango Street' is one of the most pointless and meandering books ever written. The two most memorable parts are the rape and how her friend Sally marries a vacuum cleaner salesman much older than her to escape her father.
But, since the author/main character is latino and a women, it's a double whammy of minority and feminism. Combined with the fact that it's a 'coming of age' book all but guarantees it's place in the American literature curriculum.

Loving your wife, having kids and flourishing.

>mfw this entire thread

>>12006740
>reading esoteric texts

>>11161931
kys

>go into Chapters
>go to the SF/F section (which is adjacent to the comics and manga section)
>there are ALWAYS at least half a dozen nerds in the aisle, a lot of them sitting on the floor and blocking the way
>ask them to move so I can browse, multiple times, and loudly enough to try to make them feel embarrassed
>they feel no shame
>mfw

>>9523968
>not Euthyphro then Apology

>talk about ninefox gambit somewhere else
>people jump all over me because it has big words they don't understand and doesn't spell everything out with infodumps

>>8383319
Ask them out and get to know them before deciding they are a whore for showing interest?

>>8362325
>narrativity is capable of intent

Is this what Analytics really believe?

>>7539920
>All traditional music, even including high cultures like Persian, Arabic, Maghrebi, Hindustani music is less complex than as good as any popular music song ever recorded.
I don't know much about music but what? How could you possibly support that?

>>7449562
>Guns Germs and Steel
Christ

>>7107291

>>7079571
>public bathrooms

>>6853222

Mfw non whites think their opinion is worth more due to "culture"

>laurie penny
>vice

>>5857467
>>5857470
YFW this is basically The Last Ringbearer and it was 1999.

>>5464608
>logic is extracted from observations of this world, which means that if this world is a lie our logic is flawed

>>5440083
You belong in the 10th circle of hell.