Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 3983. page

>>7906621
By "pre Christian pagan mythology" are you referring to the fart jokes?

>>7906623
no, I mean the use of Greek gods

In fact, I find it weird/interesting that Middle Ages Christian authors took materials off "pagan" religions

>>7906623
>>7906627

just adding on, I understand why Chaucer used fabliau, I just don't understand how a Christian in that time period could justify a story about non Christian deities.

Apart from Brett Easton Ellis you got a nice shelf there m8

>>7905296
You fell for the "meme:literature" meme

>>7905296
>actually bought this is water

Just kill self

>>7902748
>edgy atheist Paradise Lost fanfic

16 books behind schedule, wow you're a lazy faggot

>>7900506
The Great Gatsby

1984

The Hobbit

The Giver

Anna Karenina

Inherent Vice

all good books but your lumping them together proves you are a mindless drone who probably didn't read any of them

did you read any of them..?

>>7897004
No

I hate you for not loving Kafka.

Nabokov stupid ugly face keeps me from taking anything that he says seriously

Fuck everything written after 1968

>>7892142
link to the previous chapters please

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How do you cool cats come up with scenes? That is my biggest weakness. I've been trying to work on this one story for a couple weeks now. Got all the characters written up, the direction I want to go, lots of details about the setting, but all the scenes I write feel clumsy.

I'd prefer without the "-" but leave in the indents.

Why is your face japanese spongebob?

>>7909157
You should write a story about a straight white cis man being oppressed by disgusting trannies. lol fiction

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>>7909157
why is everyone so fucking obsessed with trannies these days?

I suppose specifically I would be looking for Christian apologetics as well. I have been a skeptic for a long time, and it's still hard to suspend disbelief. What changed your mind?

The Greeks. Augustine, Confessions and The City of God against the Pagans. Feser, Aquinas (biography). Aquinas, Shorter Summa. Tolstoy, The Kingdom of God is Within You. The New Oxford Annotated Bible. Read them in listing order.

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Haha :D Ebin!

Please be bait. Also, check the sticky.

>>7910632
>>7910622

Hey /out/,

Greetings from /trv/. As you can see, this is a pretty faggy board wherein you'll be judged if you enjoy reading anything than the overblown paperweights the majority of posters here fill their bookcases with.

>>7910622
>>7910643
Dear crossposters,

If someone came to your board without understanding the first thing about traveling or the outdoors, but insisting that their opinions on said subjects be taken seriously and respected, would you not laugh at them? You might have thought /lit/ was supposed to be more mellow or something because reading seemed like a comfy pursuit to you, but coming to this board and asking for things like Stephen King-like suggestions is akin to going to /trv/ and asking about taking the local bus two blocks down or going to /out/ and wanting serious advice about setting up a tent inside your living room. Are you really telling me that people like that wouldn't be laughed off your respective boards? This is what you come off like when you want sci fi, fantasy, thriller, horror, or genre suggestions in general.

Regards,
/lit/

She so wants that whatever on her head to be her dfw bandana trademark

>>7908818
mean post :(

>>7908803
is it true she changed her name from Sadie to Zadie to support her lit career?

I sure fuckin' hope not.

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>>7907211
that picture

Someone answer me plz

>>7907211
what character is this?

>>7904995
>Corncob Tortilla YeCarthy
>good prose

r/copypasta
Fresh off the boat, from reddit, kid?
u/prozac5000236d, 9h
Fresh off the boat, from reddit, kid? heh I remember when I was just like you. Braindead. Lemme give you a tip so you can make it in this cyber sanctuary: never make jokes like that. You got no reputation here, you got no name, you got jackshit here. It's survival of the fittest and you ain't gonna survive long on 4chan by saying stupid jokes that your little hugbox cuntsucking reddit friends would upboat. None of that here. You don't upboat. You don't downboat. This ain't reddit, kid. This is 4chan. We have REAL intellectual discussion, something I don't think you're all that familiar with. You don't like it, you can hit the bricks on over to imgur, you daily show watching son of a bitch. I hope you don't tho. I hope you stay here and learn our ways. Things are different here, unlike any other place that the light of internet pop culture reaches. You can be anything here. Me ? heh, I'm a judge.. this place.... this place has a lot to offer... heh you'll see, kid . . . that is if you can handle it...

>The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings. It satisfies every childlike curiosity, every muted desire, whatever there is in him of the scientist, the poet, the primitive seer, the watcher of fire and shooting stars, whatever obsessions eat at the night side of his mind, whatever sweet and dreamy yearning he has ever felt for nameless places far away, whatever earth sense he possesses, the neural pulse of some wilder awareness, a sympathy for beasts, whatever belief in an immanent vital force, the Lord of Creation, whatever secret harbouring of the idea of human oneness, whatever wishfulness and simple-hearted hope, whatever of too much and not enough, all at once and little by little, whatever burning urge to escape responsibility and routine, escape his own over-specialization, the circumscribed and inward-spiralling self, whatever remnants of his boyish longing to fly, his dreams of strange spaces and eerie heights, his fantasies of happy death, whatever indolent and sybaritic leanings, lotus-eater, smoker of grasses and herbs, blue-eyed gazer into space – all these are satisfied, all collected and massed in that living body, the sight he sees from the window.

Nabokov

>>7899487
In the Heart of the Heart of the Country, which is an assembly of some of the finest short stories ever written.

Lugones, Arlt, Bernhard... the list could go on

>>7899487
Absolute Love - Alfred Jarry

Let me just take the opportunity to recommend the novel "Spin" by Robert Charles Wilson. The ideas are great, the prose is smooth, and the plotline is rip-roaring.

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Bumping my request from last thread

Any fun military sci-fi with a waifu protagonist?

>>7899418
Ivory Javelin