Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 1607. page

>>9220838
Enjoy the journey not the destination brah

>>9220838
get to work you have plenty of time

In a time it took you to write up this shit post and kill a good thread with it you could have read a couple of pages. Life is finite so stop whining and prioritize, stupid nigger.

>>9220710
Radical Orthodoxy/Xenofeminism synthesis is the true revolutionary path

>>9220726
what an unprecedented turn of events...
Is this the Hegelian Dialectic's ultimate challenge? How can we synthesize this?

does literally nobody else know about this movement?

https://7chan.org/lit/src/john-milbank-radical-orthodoxy-a-new-theology.pdf

Yes, see my work.

>>9220664
Link

>>9220664
post excerpt

I never finished it. Its pretty much entirely incomprehensible. Literally the David Lynch of books.

Its just a shit allegory, thats all there is to it

A tragic failure

>>9220617
>David Lynch
>Its pretty much entirely incomprehensible
So this is the power of a brainlet

>>9220411
I don't get it

>>9220415
I think some later edition edited it out

>>9220415
I ripped off the entire chapter because it was so bad

If she's as dedicated a reader as you're telling us, she'll see right through any facade of erudition you try to erect. Just ask her about what she reads, tell her you used to read but fell out of the habit, ask her for some recommendations.

Or don't listen to me, not like I have any experience with women anyway.

>>9220392
It's not like I have any experience with girls either-hence asking for help. But, thanks.

I don't have experience either but basically you have to lie your way into her peripheral interest even if she has nothing to do with your niche knowledge work it in such a way that you can both connect and so on

Just think about it like comicbooks. Elseworlds and shit. Everything is canon, or not.

>>9220313
There is no canon of ancient mythology. There are a bunch of stories about interesting characters recycled and reused by different storytellers for different purposes.

Don't try to find the "right" answer; try to find out why a story teller is messing with a different version. Stop thinking of myths as inherently different from literature.

No puedo hablar en espanol muy bien, pero voy a tratar: no hay historias de graecia o roma que son "correctas." Todas fueron mitos, y todas fueron importantes porque la gente de la pasada las gustan. No debes buscar las versiones que aparecen derechas porque no existen -- son historias, no son realidad -- debes estudiar las differencias entre las historias y debes preguntar "porque?" Parece en los mitos modernos de vampiros o magos. Me entiendes?

Alternatively, all the contradicting stories are simultaneously true

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>>9220132
It's an utter waste of time. I got some good reading recommendations when I first started coming here, but they typical user is a blithering idiot. If I could push a button and sterilize everyone who posts on this board, I would do so without hesitation.

/lit/ has made me hate Christians and Marxists more than I ever would have thought possible.

>>9220132
First it's a quick boost to ambition, but then before the action takes place it becomes a compulsive distraction.

I've read some really good books I would otherwise never had known about

/lit/ is shit most of the time, but every so often you find a recc for a book you won't ever forget, and that makes browsing worth it.

this place used to love rand and Rothbard before reddit and leftypol invaded and started pushing their cultural marxist bullshit

>>9219987
>socialist

you don't know what this word means

>>9219987
>>9220002
>>9220016
All of you are brainlets and ought to leave.

Bye!

>>9219891
Good God what fucking disgusting foreign snack is this? Are those fucking sliced fried potatoes lmao who eats this shit.

>>9219936
i do. tastes p. good desu senpai

>>9219950
Enjoy your heart disease you foreign fuck

Bump!!!

Bumpalump

catcher in the rye

l i t e r a l l y r e d d i t

faggots

>>9219768

Twenty-something cowards (who'd never dare proprose a viewpoint in earnest and defend it) perpetuate the established groupthink forever and treat each other with disproportionate belligerence despite the fact that a lot of them are lonely and actually just need a hug

>>9219602

no

>>9219602
yes

>>9219602

It's a teenager's diary.

>>9219480
Read the whole series. It's all fantastic. His prose is beautiful. Critical interest in his work is on the rise.

My family is friends with the Updikes, and I had the pleasure of spending a fair amount of time with Mr. Updike before he passed. Whether you enjoy his writing or not, he was a great guy and funny as hell. Wish he was still around.

>>9219480

Chris Marker's documentary a grin without a cat was a redpill for me in the exact opposite sense than Updike was for you. Postmodernism came later, it was the French intellectual reaction to the failure of 1968. Likewise in America the new left drifted away from the anarchic idealism of it's early days and splintered into a thousand maoist sects. The broader counterculture sank into the morass of Yuppie culture. If people were stupid it's because the era was much more apocalyptic than we remember it, you get a sense of that from McLuhan, among others.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4tksCx2gUk&list=PL0B325779C50443E1

>>9219480
You have to understand that the book unwittingly reveals Updike's own intolerance and narrowmindedness. The reader probably shouldn't take Rabbit's impressions as particularly incisive, or Rabbit himself as superior to the essentialized hippie. Remember that Rabbit is selfish, peaked in high school, impulsive and emotionally distance. His response to the stultifying conformity of postwar America was to runaway. His response to the '60s was to appropriate the concepts he liked--free love, radical individualism--for selfish ends, while discarding the ones he was uncomfortable with. For my money the bohemian music critics who lived through the '60s provide the best analysis. Even Roth does a better job. But none of this is to detract from either author.

the examined life is far worse

>>9219496
Give an example.

>>9219521
My life