/lit/ - Literature

It's just a joke. The novel doesn't actually exist.

The Curious Case of Don McCrazyPants

The whispering sound of a train resonated in the air, as nostrils reverberated with its passing. Within the darkness, a solid green light floated in the air; a solid and irritable dot that lay dormant and highlighted by the night.
Suddenly, a projection of light lit up the dirty white ceiling and a abrasive screech of robotic bleeps, accompanied by a hum of vibration that resonated through the wooden table, erupted with brilliance and ceased with a halting crash.
Gathering his thoughts, he slowly peaked through his crusty eyes and gazed at the dismantled mess of plastic and battery that lay scattered on the floor next to discarded underwear and a mask of the incumbent president previously worn two days prior at a Halloween party. Obama's, floppy, rubber face lay strewn over beer bottles and between red cups that bled with a red, sticky, liquid.
As he clamored to start his day, a copy of the Naked Lunch fell from his bedside and crashed with a jingling thud among bottle caps and, what he would later discover upon returning to his room at 7pm, a girl's necklace that had been left with reckless abandon during the weekend's empty fuck session.
Fade out to 8:00pm, "For fuck sake, I really have to start studying", he thought to himself, 'Oh well, I suppose going to take one massive, and probably viscous, curry shit won't hurt". And so, dear reader, our hero departed to the water closet with a dull text book. "I can't wait to read about the electoral evolution of congress", he thought as he kicked his text book to the floor.

>>3100840
I see, well thanks a lot for taking the time to write all of that; it actually really helped.

I'm actually looking for something quite broad at the moment, since I don't really know what I want to do once I graduate, so I think that rhetoric would be too specialized for me. I'm probably going to sign up for some lit classes next semester.

Thanks for all the help.

>>3100794
Well I don't particularly understand the difference. I'm not an American so I've never had to take a separate "rhetoric" class.

I assume, from the word "rhetoric", that it has to do with forming arguments but I fail to see how that is an actual fully-fledged major separable from English.

I'm actually considering adding on English to Government as a double major.

Writing is quickly becoming something that I'm quite interested in as well, since English literature and History were my best subjects throughout IB.

Do you guys see more value in English as a major or rhetoric, for the purpose of writing?

>>3100222
Sort of this. Religious identity is open to as much criticism as political identity.

I'm not a person who believes that every religious person is a bat-shit fundamentalist, or that I'm more intelligent than a religious person simply because I'm an atheist. That notion is absurd because I know many atheists who are idiots and many Christians who are far more intelligent than I am.

I do believe, however, that religion is a negative force on the planet and shouldn't be given special treatment because people get "offended" when their religion is scrutinized.

>>3100072
The US goal in iraq was not to spread liberal democracy. I disagreed with Hitchens on his stance on Iraq. I'm not a sheep, I don't have to agree with everything somebody says just because I liked some of their points on other topics.

Atlas Shrugged.

I think Hitchens was great because he argued more against the political and moral implications of religion than the logic of religion.

Even many religious people acknowledge that their god is illogical; they use the word faith.

He argued about how it was a totalitarian concept. How an all knowing dictator that can read your mind, tell you to slaughter your kids, and then send you to suffer for eternity for thought-crime is a repugnant concept.

>>3097582
I lel'd

>>3098348
Well, you could always use flowery language within a poem or a novel. I see /lit/ as more of a literary discussion than a place to write lengthy prose.

Using some language also comes across as archaic and unnecessary in almost every context.

That's a fair enough point if you actually speak like that but you should really try to mediate the language you use in certain settings.

>>3098327
>>3098330
Oh god the irony of how badly I fucked up that sentence is embarrassing.

>>3098327
fair enough point*

>>3098314
That's a fair enough if you actually speak but you should really mediate the language you use in certain settings.

The thing that annoys me most about /lit/ is that people think that they need to post longer posts with more flamboyant language than they normally would on other boards.

> I think it forebodes irks me for several reasons
> even the noblest of concepts diminishing under thoughtless repetition, like echoes.
There's really no need. Good writing consists of using appropriate language within an appropriate context. You just sound like a try-hard.

My penis is rock-hard. I am certainly a randy man.

>>3097509
I'm actually a democratic socialist. I'd rather castrate myself than call myself a "conservative" or anything even close to a reactionary.

>>3092943
If I was an American, I would vote for Obama.

I still wouldn't call myself an "Obama supporter". Somebody at my university is an organizer for the democrats and since I'm a government major he keeps asking me to help with phone banks and such.

He's such a drone though. He literally can't say a single negative thing about Obama. It just pisses me off to be in University Democrat meetings as well because they're just sheep that can't criticize a party that continually shits on a lot of things that they claim to hold dear.

I don't believe that "natural rights" exist in the same way that I don't think that morality is inherent.

I still believe that freedom of the press SHOULD be a right, that free speech SHOULD be a right, and so on. Just because I take the nihilist approach to morality doesn't mean that I'm an immoral person; I just think that morality is defined by an individual and by factors like socialization.

I have a fair amount of sex but I'm getting pretty frustrated by the fact that I find it difficult to meet a girl that I feel emotional attachment to.

>>3089941
Dyslexic fag here
What is ROFIPT?

>>3088644
I lel'd. I lel'd hard.