Why are the greatest writers Catholic? (Or at last raised in its teachings)
Dante, Shakespeare, Chaucer, Cervantes, Proust, Joyce, Pynchon
What did God mean by this?
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Last time I checked, Homer, Plato, Aristotle, Sophocles, Xenophon, Herodotus and pretty much every other great Greek was NOT Catholic.
Check and mate, as we say in the Chess world.
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>>8273827
for a start Dante's Catholicism would have been immensely different to any one of those authors
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Shakespeare wasn't Catholic.
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What are some books that go against the prevalent Christian/Buddhist narrative of praising victimhood, weakness and compassion and instead laud strength, authority and/or duty?
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muh reductive view of christianity
muh gibbon
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might is right
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The Old Testament
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“What amazed me most was this audience, many of them Game of Thrones fans, could see nothing wrong in talking, eating and taking pictures throughout the show – or complaining when asked to stop,” he wrote inThe Stage.
“A couple saw nothing wrong in producing from their bag a box of McDonald’s Chicken McNuggets and a large side of fries,” he wrote. “At the interval, they had popped out and purchased these to consume through the second half.
“Munching certainly seemed to be the order of the day. The couple to my left ate their way through a large tub of popcorn during Act I, while the couple on my right chomped through a packet of crisps. It was like listening to eating in Dolby Stereo, and sadly at the expense of being able to properly hear the lines being spoken on stage,” he added.
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>>8273770
the theatre is by your definition technically /mu/
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Jesus Christ /tv/ was right
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>>8273770
>on /lit/
>Doesn't recognize Dr Faustus as theatre and instead assumes it's TV.
Who let you out of your cage?
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Hi /lit/,
do you know any writers, who do not only write, but compose, paint, make scupltures, etc? Basically I'm looking for multimedia artists, who also spend some of their time writing.
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Schoenberg was also a painter and he wrote books on music.
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Tao Lin
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>>8273753
Captain Beefheart aka Van Vilet.
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Are all the characters in this supposed to be unsympathetic and vapid?
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>>8273739
yes, because they're closer to real people than most of the characters created in the last 30 years.
Sympathetic, likable characters are reddit tier
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>>8273767
They're just no fun to be around apart from Bunny tho
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>>8273767
muh muh postmodern ethics
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Lit, I've never had sex and I'm 22. What's a good novel for me before I kill myself? I'm gay btw.
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Death in Venice.
Don't kill yourself.
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Phenomenology of Spirit, don't kill yourself until you figure it out.
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Don't do it! Think of all the great books you haven't read
Is /lit/ the cheapest hobbie?
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>>8273668
Lots of hobbies are free if you have the Internet.
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>>8273668
If you have a kindle and the patience to handle an infinite amount of dead links, yes.
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>>8273668
Depends like a lot of hobbies.
Do you read novelas to pad your stats?
Lit peen is important.
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I've read a lot from that list, but not to impress people. I think that people are more impressed if you've read longer books.
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>>8273617
He's talking more in terms of the quantity of things you'd read.
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>>8273604
I read them because I just enjoy novellas.
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Can we all agree that post modernism is one of the best things to ever happen to art, if not the best thing? What better revolution than realizing that art is whatever you find enjoyable, it doesn't have to be done by some sort of standard. If you find something interesting, it's by default a good piece of art.
I think this is wonderful, because not only does it get art to be fun and exciting again (as opposed to stuffy) but it opens up your mind to outside the box thinking. It gets you to think about the subjective nature of our representation of the world. There's no "right way" to perceive the world, and there's plenty of ways that reality breaks down, especially when you get into post modern art like surrealism, dadaism, etc.
I believe this started early in the 20th century with the dadaism movement, but I believe it could predate that. I know that 60s and 70s culture was really the cultural tipping point though, which in my opinion is where the world really started turning around for the better. Pic related is one of my favorite works of art.
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>>8273587
I'm not quite sure you 'read' postmodernism correctly. Then again I'm not confident that I and the rest of /lit/ know and understand postmodernism.
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>>8273595
Postmodernism isn't about any of those things.
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This book is amazing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vb1_ALSLuLQ
http://www.pdfarchive.info/pdf/H/He/Herbert_Frank_-_Dune.pdf
https://www.amazon.com/Dune-Frank-Herbert/dp/0441172717/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1468410775&sr=8-1&keywords=dune
Go buy it and read it yourself.
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Literally finished this half an hour ago. It is pretty good, yeah.
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>>8273602
Awesome. Thanks for the reply. I'm on the 4th page and it's so goood..
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Stop shilling, we don't read dumb sci fi shloc here.
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The entire arts and humanities academia-media-publishing culture is posturing bullshit.
All claims of artistic worth are unfalsifiable. All philosophical claims are unfalsifiable. The Munchhausen trilemma shows that we can never know anything except for our inability to know anything. We can accept shared axioms but obviously anyone can pick different axioms (e.g., "Murder is good").
The Stirner meme is a version of what I have said above but it's only done because pretentious people only bother entertaining ideas that have been mentioned by published people.
>inb4 "shut up you five year old, become a christian like us mature gentlemen of taste"
>inb4 "reeeeee I can't hear you!"
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>post-modernists browse /lit/
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so?
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>>8273527
Look, there he goes again. Packaging things up and throwing them in to discrete areas like his professor told him to. Yeah, that shows understanding.
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He's not wrong, you know.
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Watchmen was disowned by Alan.
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>The series was created by a British collaboration consisting of writer Alan Moore, artist Dave Gibbons, and colorist John Higgins. Watchmen originated from a story proposal Moore submitted to DC featuring superhero characters that the company had acquired from Charlton Comics.
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>read books because of great writing and ideas
>told that good books can only be about the "human condition"
>if your book isn't about serious people thinking serious thoughts and having serious emotions then it isn't worthwhile
When will the human condition fags fuck off? Ironically, caring about people requires the least strenuous use of empathy.
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Being a robot frogposter is part of the human condition, write about that.
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People say something you disagree with so you dwell on it to the point that you can no longer enjoy the things they disagree with you on?
It sounds like you were beat the fuck out.
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>>8273491
>worthwhile
Values, values everywhere
Read what you want, OP.
The fuck did I just read?
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Moby Dick?
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Sparknotes is your company.
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Twenty chapters about the sea.
Will any of his books still be read in 200 years?
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HA! No.
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>>8273474
probably.
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They wont ecen be read in 20 years
Quality post op