/lit/ - Literature

Don't let an old man with a long beard philosophizing and proclaiming deceive you; he's a sexist.

captcha: rationalism bulked

>>1050860
but now you're interpreting the texts of histories, which are mostly based on firsthand accounts. All human knowledge is based on texts, and different texts inform our interpretations of others, etc. and so forth.

texts interact with a culture. we'll never know what Shakespeare really meant about tons of issues, but we can still interact with the text of his works in a meaningful way.

texts speak for themselves in the mind states of the interpreters throughout the ages.

people with funny mustaches read New Yorker articles out of their basements. Then we'd talk about GRRM for awhile. Then we'd rage about post-modernism. Pretty repetitive, really, but it was alright.

DID I MISS YOUR PEEN STAGY???? <3<#<3<3<

sup, e/lit/es.

What happened to the tinychat room?

>>1021760
Where did you find the David Tennant version! I've been looking all over for it!

Othello is good too

great shoop OP. you're a true anon

fuck you haters.
bertrand, are you OP?

>>mfw no one in this thread has ever taken a class on Plato.

chuck palahnuick goes to art school.

>>1006317
>>I know how I can win an argument! By not having a valid opinion on either side of the debate.

Ad Hominem, faggot. That goes for that prick writing XKCD, too.

The Bible, The Odyssey, The Iliad, Shakespeare's Collected Works, and the Canturbury Tales.

Brother's Karamazov.

Go big or go fuck yourself.

I can't believe I read all of that. I kept waiting and waiting for the punchline.

Fuck you, OP.

Lit Theory. Both. Otherwise an English major is a book club member.

Honestly, there's no reason not to read the bible, both testaments. Can you name a more important book in the history of Western Literature? I can't.

However, the best way to really learn it is to suffer through a lifetime of bible schooling and church, and grandmothers reprimanding you over the dinner table.

>>982892

Bukowski has absolutely nothing to say and never has. Writing about lower class life isn't a fresh idea. Degradation and squalor have been the topics of everyone from Marquis De Sade to Dickens.

But Bukowski doesn't even have the decency to make his prose beautiful as they did. Writing in a bald imitation of Hemingway and using the word 'fuck' a lot does not contribute anything to 'modernism'.

He has nothing to say politically, socially, personally, philosophically or stylistically.

What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Craver.

He's the natural heir to the legacy of writers like Steinbeck and Hemmingway, and his short stories are the best contemporary writing that exists in America today.

Shitty imitation of John Fante who was a shitty imitation of Hemingway.

I'm so sick of every sexist pig who thinks he knows anything about 'literature' telling me how great Bukowski is.

>>979218
The melodrama of an sculpture student at RISD who thinks she understands art.