/lit/ - Literature

I don't think so.
A girl showed me once how a spirit can rise when unfettered, how goodness can beget goodness until it keeps going up up up up up up up up, and I don't really believe it when they tell me gravity can't be conquered. They point to Dionysus, saying "look there, there goes the king of the Maenads. There goes the man who gluts himself of blood and wine alike," and oh what fine robes you have, Dionysus! Do you really think that all joy could lie in that blood-caked shroud? Do you not see how the blood weighs your robes down, how they drag across the ground? Do you not see the brambles you gather, how they stick in your sandal like a Russian holds his tooth? Are you so joyous, Dionysus? Do your eyes match your wine, Dionysus? Does your wine match your blood? Go on and go under, Dionysus, but leave your robes behind. I fear you will not rise again if you cling to them.

>>1827135
To be fair, most people seem to agree that Anthem was particularly and aberrantly horrible.

It's less a hatred thing, but as soon as I get familiarized with an author's style I lose interest. Sometimes this means reading one or two books. Sometimes this means dropping one halfway through. Sometimes this means dropping one after twenty pages. It's like trying to get interested in sex after you've climaxed. The notion is all well and good and by God you'd be a happier person if you were capable of it. But you just... can't.

>>1827103
Please tell me he was there to plug a book by Howard Zinn.

>>1827095
Jesus Christ.

Okay, am I the only one seriously unsettled by the presence of cat-Neil Gaiman?
Like, they didn't even change his name. Or the names of his books. My brain feels like someone is trying to pull an incredibly cheap lie.

Also, a narrative about cooperative vs combative discussion? Really? Are all kid shows just disguised TEDTalks?

I'll take a whack at it.

Anybody whose aesthetic inclinations or lifestyle can be used to accuse them of pseudo-intellectual elitism, a fetishization of the obscure and, optionally, self-satisfying apathy.

I think this might be as accurate a working definition as you'll be able to get. The label as it's used right now can't meaningfully denote whether or not someone actually fits the personality traits as it's often applied as soon as someone sees the subject's outfit or hears the mention of an incriminating band name or movie title. That's not to say that it's inevitably wrong, just that the qualities it attempts to describe aren't rigorously checked for.

>yfw you talk like that

>>1651230
>There is a certain popular stereotype of fair-skinned, chain-smoking four-eyes in black turtlenecks that talk about stuff normal folks do not understand (may those be "accurate" or not).

Would you be able to find a representation of that that is not a parody? I mean, a recent presentation. Let's say, after Doug Funnie's sister.

>>1651184
That's... not the case, really.
It's something of an academic distinction, but existentialism still holds that there's meaning to be had, it's just meaning generated by and for the individual, rather than handed down from on high. Nihilism takes the position that there's no meaning at all.

>>1650994
The argument's about meaning, actually, so you can't really take a stance like that without getting into the fight.

I envy the world this person seems to live in.
If all racism was was the recitation of magic words, we would've been able to stomp it out a long time ago.

>>1650902
So when Sartre put out "Existentialism is a Humanism" he was just pulling our legs, right?

>>1605962
Not true!
Kirkie is certainly Gryffindor, as sure as Ms. Rand is certainly Slytherin, and Vonnegut is a supremely enlightend Hufflepuff.

>>1605954
Well... the Beat movement was defined by the search for God or holiness or some other alternative in America. That's not _quite_ the same thing as the truth and justice thing Gryffindor has going on. Especially since they weren't really activists. I'd put them down as a particularly spiritual branch of Ravenclaw.

>>1605926
I don't know if I'd call it anything, really. I mean, if they're going in for like a job interview or something I'd call it dumb, but I don't think they're going to lose much for frightening old ladies and drawing stares from passerbyes.

Morgan?
Worgen?
Kavork'n?

>>1605906
What? No. That's ignant, that is. People are kind of okay with being associated with gloomy or macabre romanticism, which has been the stable element in all the various expressions of "goth" as a genre. What they're uncomfortable with is being called a term that carries the subtext of "ridiculous child."

>>1605887
I mean, do you blame them or do you blame the people who loaded the words with negative connotations?

I feel very cold, all of the sudden.

I think my problem with Emilie Autumn is that she's so obviously aping the gothy conventions.
I mean, "Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls"? Did she really have to say Victorian? Would her fans not be able to infer that from the style of the cover? Or from the word "asylum"?

>>1605813
SHUT UP. LET US FUCK.

>>1605698
Motherfucker wrote The Giving Tree. Do you understand what that means? That means he made childhood idealism. Before him all we had were ancestral memories of factories and coal mines.

>>1605534
Wait, what exactly did the "Diversity and Inclusion" library contain? Was it just stuff like The Color Purple?