/lit/ - Literature

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>>21977396
>took
It's worse than ever. The average bloke is a living dumptruck considering the shite they put into their bodies. Fuckn hell; even my grandparents drink cola every day, eat greasy shite and sit on the couch while watching TV- also the only source of information on the real world they have. Every conversation is about "everything so expensive, d-dumb foreigners, why don't you get a real job and stop reading so much".

>>21283424
Enter anon; to him, German.
Switching between German, English, French and the occasional Japanese for years raped my brain into having to often look up German grammar rules whenever I address a letter to either some official office or scribble a private mail to my granny. It's really embarrassing to admit and or come upon as I talk to someone and find myself scrambling for the right German word that seemingly only exists in English or French or Japanese in my head.

>>20835217
>00:02 seconds in
>my therapist

>>16918180
>I've read women

>>16504321
>Canadian

Its over for you mate

>>16213716
Shill this shill that... You conspiratorial bunch are making me tired of all that yap yap

>>15882689
The jigaboo affectation is such a fucking put-on. This is a guy that has lectured at all or most of the top universities in the entire world and talks like he's just begging to be called a porch monkey just to substantiate his diatribes of institutional racism. Fuck public intellectuals in general but fuck this guy especially.

>>14788068
>he didn't drop out 6 units away from his AA in humanities at the local community college and go on to work overnights at a hardware store

Hey, Anons. I'm not sure where to ask this, but it's about words so I figure this is the best place.

I'm sure all of you have heard of "laughing with someone" versus "laughing at someone". Laughing with someone means reassuring that person that whatever mistake they made was no big deal and they shouldn't take it hard. Laughing at someone is just mockery. The difference between them is the levity or gravity of the situation. Everyone in the situation is expected to read the mood and understand the intent.

To continue, I've noticed an increase in what I guess I'll call "friendly hostility" in the internet over the years: The use of hyperbole, sarcasm, and "anger" to convey a friendly psuedo-intimate atmosphere. People get mad, but not in a way that's meant to hurt. People insult, but not in a way that meant to be taken seriously. There's getting mad, and then there's getting mad for real.

What I don't get, though, is why there don't seem to be many words emphasizing this dichotomy. Sure, there's angry versus salty. And there are words like banter and roasting. But for something that is so important to the vernacular of the internet (especially the English-speaking side), there's a noticeable lack of words and phrases that can be used to describe and understand it.

>>11257409
Bugs..

easy on these streets homie

Oscar Zeta Acosta -- despite any claims to the contrary -- was a dangerous thug who lived every day of his life as a stalking monument to the notion that a man with a greed for the Truth should expect no mercy and give none...
... and that was the difference between Oscar and a lot the merciless geeks he liked to tell strangers he admired: class acts like Benito Mussolini and Fatty Arbuckle.
When the great scorer comes to write against Oscar's name, one of the first few lines in the Ledger will note that he usually lacked the courage of consistently monstrous convictions. There was more mercy, madness, dignity and generosity in that overweight, overworked and always overindulged brown cannonball of a body than most of us will meet in any human package even three times Oscar's size for the rest of our lives -- which are all running noticeably leaner on the high side, since that rotten fat spic disappeared

>>8268286

>deep

>>8260076
Maybe I should've clarified and said that I was looking for books that don't express their political views and just talk about soldiers everyday lives, but I guess you just wanted to sound smart and show me how I don't understand books as good as you do.

>>7806655
>live in a large house with your large extended family
>there is room, not a lot though
>hear knock on the door
>10 strangers demand to be let in, lest they face certain death
>you look over and you see that this isn't quite true but your sibling feels sorry for them and urges you to take them in
>you know for a fact that at least 3 of them will hurt your family, destroy things inside your house and demand that you change house rules to suit them
>take them in
>as expected shit goes down
>although the 7 didn't "do anything", 2 of them implicitly supported the 3 and 5 didn't feel any sense of responsibility
>other members of your family start looking at them funny, with distrust
>the sibling who brought them in tells the other members to stop generalising
>tfw this could've been avoided

what if ass jews are as much of an illusion as the bullshit they all complain about

Were you born in the right generation, /lit/?

>>5262724

>>5146520

Actually forgot mention stuff they read:
George Guidall reads an unabridged Don Quixote, an old unabridged Gravity's Rainbow, which is so rare these days that I can only find copies on the internet which skip at pivotal parts... and he reads more popular stuff like Stephen King's Gunslinger novel.


Scott Brick is someone I'm familiar with through his reading of iRobot, Cloud Atlas, and Dune.

>>5037825

OK, i see, you have a point.

i'm slipping, havent been on 4chan for a while, blow me.

you wanna go to TSR for that agglomeration.

>>4987530