Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 1028. page

>>9570291
There's something deeply ironic about being so reliant on an internet imageboard you can't go 24 pages (or even 3!) without seeking validation and encouragement regarding reading a book called "Revolt Against the Modern World."

>>9570335
savage

>>9570335
damn...

prison

>>9569386
Because it feels best in the long run.

>>9569395
>all immoral people go to prison
wrong

Fagles.

Also the plot of the Telegony is super fucking weird.

"A storm forces Telegonus onto Ithaca without his realising where he is. As is customary for Homeric heroes in unfriendly land, he commits piracy, and unwittingly begins stealing Odysseus' cattle. Odysseus comes to defend his property. During the ensuing fight, Telegonus kills Odysseus with his unusual spear, thereby partially fulfilling Tiresias' prophecy in Odyssey 11 that death would come to Odysseus "out of the sea" (i.e., the poison of the ray).[10] (In another respect, however, Odysseus' death contradicts the prophecy of Tiresias, who predicted (Od. 11.135) that a "gentle death" would come to Odysseus "in sleek old age"). As Odysseus lies dying,[11] he and Telegonus recognise one another, and Telegonus laments his mistake. Telegonus brings his father's corpse, Penelope, and Odysseus' other son Telemachus, back to Aeaea, where Odysseus is buried and Circe makes the others immortal. Telegonus marries Penelope, and Telemachus marries Circe."

Fagles is smoothest and most powerful read for a modern English speaker, easily. Unless you're doing academic work (Lattimore), just read Fagles.

hahahaha what? who the fuck is this? is this some sort of bait hahahaha

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Will Pennyposting ever make a comeback?

>>9568732

Imagine how out of touch you'd have to be to think your upper-middle perception of the world somehow translates universally.

I actually have some bad feels for Penny.

Fucking dingleberries stuck to my ass again.

I hope my nearly-year long dry spell ends this summer. I can make friends with girls but i never end up fucking them

>>9568702
hahaha cuck!

>A lot of poverty in the world
Of course

>>9568654
I feel like its laughably bad muhh ford

>>9568654
>humanity scared of wars due to previous conflicts which has led to changing the world
>governments and hi-strata pursuing a global stable homogeneous culturally society
>destruction of families and collective substratas for a complete equal society without any emotions but for yourself and humanity in general
>stratified stable society which is controlled by science, conditioning, satisfaction of base needs and general happiness

>>9567691
This lengthy cat sags from elbow to toe. Suspended by loving hands. Like an ice cream melting from a summer glare. A ginormous girth he has. Fly, long cat. Fly away. Be free among the stars, you majestic extensive creature.

>>9567691
The cat is long. Think of how long a cat that is long is and this cat is about that long give or take a few units of arbitrary measurement.

>>378363995
long cat is long

Why must anything Japanese always have its own "general" in this fucking website?

Murakami is for girls, dude.

>>9566406
Read Kafka. You will love Kafka.

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>Aside from that, Martin has also been reported to be writing the script of five “Game of Thrones” spinoffs. According to rumours, the upcoming “Game of Thrones” Season 8 is going to be the last installment of the TV series but spinoff series are totally going to follow after its finale.

Show's better anyway.

>Martin reportedly became disappointed with David Benioff and Dan Weiss for featuring some spoilers for the upcoming sixth “A Song of Ice and Fire” novel
>Meanwhile, the "A Feast of Crows" writer has recently established the StageCoach Foundation, which aims to help budding filmmakers improve their skills in production. “The Winds of Winter” author is reportedly planning to ask the help of his good pals in Hollywood to help train the newbies.
Now that's what I call assblasted.

>>9562527
what was the point of that emoji

Weil's The Iliad, or the Poem of Force and King Lear.

>>9562540
It serves no purpose
I just wanted to use one

>>9554473
bullshit

my vote isn't on there

you literally took down your own thread so you can modify vote results and then put up this shit

this thread is gonna mysteriously disappear soon so you can sanitize the data and "remove redditor votes" too isn't it

>>9554487
Screenshot your voting submission.

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>>9554492
you know full well you can't

this "poll" is fake and gay

We had this thread yesterday.

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>Please give examples

See pic related. Pseud above, Intellectual below.

how many shitty same threads do we need
read the fucking dictionary definitions and stop

>be on /lit/
>sink to level of primordial meme soup
>see weird deep-sea creatures down here memeing
>receive weird and cryptic messages
>not know who is who

>return to the surface anon
>try again
>you can do it
>don't give up

What the fuck is water

>>9573318
>>you can do it
>>don't give up
i originally wrote the OP from what i perceive as the average /lit/erary genius here but thought it would be funnier to make it me. i actually have a completed 110k word novel and am currently waiting on responses from agents. i just get annoyed when i come on here and see people complaining about their novels when they've only written a few thousand words over the course of like 6 months, which to me is a person that still hasn't even started.

>>9572613
look into rationalism. Descartes, Leibniz, Spinoza.

Descartes is a good place to start. Just ignore him when he starts using God to fill in the gaps.

Study maths, the only method of reasoning and deduction that can ever be certifiably true.

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>>9572624
Is my want for a foundation irrational? I enjoy maths but then I want to work exclusively on foundations and I know that that project has largely been given up.

>>9572618
I read Descartes a long time ago. I'll go back and reread his principles. I've always wanted to read the other two.

However, is this going to lead me to some bs german idealism?

READ 24/7/365 KEEP UP PUMP IT PUMP IT

>>9572594
I fucking hate reading in the summer. Don't feel comfortable staying inside on a sunny day. Normies in every park and café judging me.

>>9572621
No one gives a shit about what you do; reading is perfectly acceptable in public. Stop being a pussy.