What is the purpose of literature?

>>7637969
Wide and diverse categories don't have singular purposes.

look smarter and get girls

All art is quite useless.

>>7638000
So is everything else.

>>7638030
found the pleb

>>7638035
>art is useless but my engineering degree isn't xd

>>7638000
>>7638035
found the pleb

>>7637969
To have thoughts you would not have had otherwise.

>>7638045
that wasn't even me but you're retarded, and the definition of a pseud

you could try googling the quote (yes it's a quote you mongrel)

>>7638052
Oh no, it's a quote by an important faggot, I didn't know it was off limits!

You faggots are insufferable

Literature is the most agreeable way of ignoring life.

>being a utilitarian
such a sad existence, I pity you

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A means of transfer of information.

kill time.

>>7638072
This, except for the internet, movies, television, masturbation, sex, liquor, drugs, eating, sleep and videogames.

>>7637989
>get girls

no

>>7638290
>no

yes

>>7637969
Preservation of human thought

>>7637969
it has no purpose all great writers were into it to get laid and pay the bills

>>7637969

source material for movies

/tv/ says 'FOR YOU'

according to me? to kill time

>>7637969
Literature lets us feel things we might or might not feel otherwise.