/lit/ - Literature

>>16483127
>hurr durr you're team red so you can only like things made by other members of team red

>>16483127
>its three defining works
Anon, you were literally rused.

Most people on this board have never actually read those books

>>16483127
>three defining works
What are you talking about?

>>16483127
Will ameritards ever learn what 'liberal' means?

>>16483127
most on this board can barely read anything with their little coom brained attention spans. They post these books because they think it makes them sound intellectual. They dont read them

I have never read any of these books, but whenever a thread is posted about them I will get involved and make strong claims about them.

>>16483127
>/lit/ has become so right-wing
What are you talking about

>>16483127
You are the reason I have no faith in humanity whatsoever.
>>16483144
Literally this

>>16483127
Liberals can be right-wing, retard.

>>16483127
The 3 defining works are
>The Iliad
>The Bible
>The Critique of Pure Reason

>>16483278
we are talking about the fahrenheit/feet people here, what do you expect

>>16483351
Bible isn't literature

what's the lib agenda in GR?
Ulysses was clear in terms of traditionalist retention, Joyce wanted nothing to do with the path Yeats walked just before him. I'm sure anyone could argue that DFW was pozzed and needed a hot shot.

>>16483127
the best literature hits on ineffable, timeless ideas that every person deals with on some level. Some things really do go deeper than politics.

>>16483471
It literally is.

>>16483127
Ulysses was about how much modern life sucks

>>16483608
> maybe if i keep saying it it will become true

>>16483159
So true. Our board's real three defining works are Mein Kamf, Culture of Critique, and Moby Dick.

>>16483672
>Culture of Critique
never even heard of this before, had to look it up, looks shit

>>16483127
Liberalism can and in fact often is right wing.
Would Joyce even be described as liberal in any manner?
The meme trilogy is only "defining" the board by being a decent meme.
You're also forgetting the Culture of Critique to complete the meme tetralogy.

>>16483657
No, it's about how despite the fact that modern life sucks and most people are ridiculously indulging in ideological and emotional lies, it is still possible to find beauty, meaning, love and honesty with oneself (remember the last word of the book is literally "yes").

>>16483144
this
though I’ve seen newfags whine in threads about how x was written by a kike or muh reactionary

>>16483127
/lit/men don't care for petty politics, only the pure art of literature that speaks to living life as a human.

DFW seems like a guy right wingers could like and still enjoy that book.

>>16483330
>humanity
That's just an amerishart thing, leave the rest of humanity out of it

>>16483127
Because the 2016 election brought on a whole bunch of redditors and bandwagoners to /pol/, who then spread across the site. You'll also notice there aren't that many threads about books.

>>16483378
a foot is roughly the length of a foot. i can easily estimate distances with only my
body. american efficiency. it’s not aesthetic but it works.

>>16484001
Literally obsessed.

As you read you become more intelligent and stop being a leftist

>>16485001
You stop being a right wing bigot actually because it opens your mind

>>16485001
intelligence is inversely related to conservatism

>>16484031
>it’s not aesthetic
No, it is completely aesthetic. "The road stretched on for miles" vs "The road stretched on for kilometers". The metric system is as soulless as it gets.

>>16483278
culturally liberal vs. economically liberal. What is so hard to understand about this?

>>16485016
>t. harry potter reader
>>16485033
Midwittery is very strongly correlated with leftism.

>>16483471
Nor is critique of pure reason lol

>>16485016
sometimes your mind opens enough that you start questioning certain dogmas in our society. Of course you wouldn't want to do that, there are consequences.

>>16485125
lmao go jerk off to Mein Kampf

>>16485146
Yeah and sometimes you give up and blame everything on the Jews

>>16485368
not even hitler did that, but nice strawman

>>16485401
who's talking about Hitler? I'm referring to your incel ass lol

>>16485358
That's not a rebuttal, retard.

>it's another "Americans spreading their retarded dichotomies and faggy values" episode
Zzz

>>16483127
>its three defining works
Are you literally retarded?

>>16485016
>stop being a right wing bigot
>actually
does that humanities degree and middle management job pay for your hair dye?

>>16483324
based.

>>16483324
Its the /lit/ way

>>16483701
Consider yourself a tourist then

>>16483672
I like moby dick because all the black people die first, a big white dick dooms their fate and some old white guys eat them

>>16483341
Only in a relative sense, never an absolute or essential one.

by today's standard those are all right-wing books

>>16483971
baste but I also read literature to feel closer to God.

>>16485750
kys /v/tard

>>16483324
I did that with Guenon at the peak of the meme.

>>16483127
There are probably a lot of lefties here too. Not everyone wants to go on about politics; some may come here to escape that shit.

>>16483661
>the Bible isn't literature
>how?
>duh........... because me hate religion!!!!

>>16487999
we know, guenonfag

>>16488044
Guenonfag probably did the same, but I came after to provoke him in debates.

>>16483672

I fell for this meme. Mein Kamf was the biggest waste of time. It's like source material that you acknowledge for its effect on the field but dont cite anymore.

>>16488463
read theory, chud

I came for /pol/ and the 2016 election and stayed like many others. We're purging all your boards of liberal trash shit like this.

>>16483228
I'm 2 of 3. Haven't got around to Useless

>>16483672
>Moby Dick.
Add a bible and some russian book and I'm sure that's the latest trio.

>>16488776
Maybe Kaczysni too. Not sure.

>>16483127
I want penguin to reprint GR with old cover. The rocket one is boring.

>>16483127
pynchon is a boomer-lefty, we can appreciate his artistic output the same way we can appreciate a spielberg or scorsese movie, they're very technically competent people even if they take liberties with their childish political opinions

>>16489103
Just buy it used.

>>16489103
Dude I thought the same thing, then I read the one with the rocket on it. Same. Fucking. Book.

>>16483127
Easy answer is nobody here actually reads. /pol/ leaked and this is just a place for alt-right bois to post pics of book covers on their weird screeds instead of just vaguely racist cartoons. If you think any person on this board has actually read any work of right wing philosophy beyond skimming a copy of Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life while waiting for their mom to pick them up from Barnes and Noble you're wrong.

>>16487872
Not really, especially Infinite Jest. Other than the shitty ebonics section in the first thirty pages, the book covers topics such as privilege explicitly (though I don't remember the exact context and it was a relatively brief mention) and one of the points of the book is at least a surface-level jab at the encroaching power of corporatism. It's not pedantic about it like something today would be, but it wouldn't be that out of place compared to something like Ulysses.

>>16483127
yo why your dumb bitchass think i would read that skankass book looks like a fucking brick

>>16489113
irony lmao

>>16488780
Teddy was literally schooled by pynchon

>>16483127
Gravity's Rainbow spends a lot of the book shitting on the liberal system setup after WWII

>>16489439
nobody's laughing

>>16488020
It's scripture

>>16489496
I'm laughing at that retard (you?)

>>16483127
Pynchon and Joyce don't take ideological stances. They had more interesting things to think about

>>16489706
Farts and shits, that is?

>>16489511
do your farts smell like bananas

>>16489709
yep

>>16489485
>>16489706
I always get a very anarchist feeling from Pynch

>>16490564
An overarching message in GR is a mistrust for ists and isms that borders on paranoia. Pynchon would probably laugh at you for politicking.

>>16489709
the patrician form of humor and interest.

>>16483127
Because we're not actually right-wing, we just don't want to cut our dicks off to fit in.

>>16490791
speak for yourself

>>16485576
>your ad hominem is not a rebuttal to my ad hominem lmao

>>16483127
its almost like you can read a book without having the exact same views as the author ! HOLY FUCK
LIBERALS BTFO FOREVER INFINITE TSKUBISKI UP THE ASS LIBERALS UNITED UNDER ONE BTFO UP THE ASS INCREDIBLY BASED INFINITE JUTSU ASS FUCKING FOREVER INFINITE RIPPING OF THE ASS RIPPING OF THE SOUL THE LIBERAL IS EMPTY NOW THE LIBTARD IS NOW DEFUNCT AND EMPTY LIKE A BEGGERS BOWL NOBODY WILL GIVE A FUCK AGAIN THE LIBERAL OFFICIALLY BTFUCKOUT

>>16483127
Your thread sucks because other than Pynchon, who has the hippy-dippy thing going, neither Joyce nor DFW were liberal.
People are, by definition, centrist or right wing. Authors are utopians and often a bit contradictory.

DFW was not a leftist, he hated nigger english

>>16483341
Liberals are classified as right-wing

>>16483127
The modern left wing is based primarily around the concept that the Congolese or Kenyan race are identical to the Anglo, Jewish, or Japanese in terms of average intelligence and ability. This is a belief for which there is absolutely no evidence, and a great deal of evidence denying, pretty much every single thing we can measure about humans contradicts it, the only refuge of the denialist is a skepticism which would require that they disbelieve a great deal of the other generally accepted results of psychology since they have far less evidence supporting them than IQ does.

They might pretend they care more about class than this but they'd all sooner be caught dead as capitalists than admit any of the differences between races. They're not really leftists anymore, they're progressives, totally subsumed into this ludicrous worldview. They'll pretend eternally that these races are just oppressed and will one day wake up and start acting differently, despite a total lack of evidence suggesting even the possibility of such behaviour.

It's somewhat amusing to poke them about this, but it's mostly just tiring after you realize how fundamentally braindead they really are. If you can get people to lie about something this obvious it's pretty clear you can get them to lie about anything, these are fundamentally demoralized, confused people. They can't even approach their own beliefs with reason or evidence anymore, they are hysterics.

>>16483127
None of these books had the annoying leftist concepts we see today and none of them are pro-communism. These guys are center of the board with a bit auth.

I'm not sure what you expect from classic authors. No one except maybe Martin Luther is gonna go full /pol/

>>16492359
DFW was cent-auth
Pynchon is cent-left lib.
Joyce?

>>16492406
Describes himself as a socialist. So probably like center-left-auth

>>16485038
based and aestheticpilled

>>16485038
Kilometers is for the "I fucking love science" globalhomo types.

>>16492640
Real men use versty