Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 938. page

>>9593408
In a free for all, who would win? I'm thinking 2 or 3

>mfw white superiority is so obvious that I can allow myself to laugh at this picture
>mfw a black person (nigger) would be angry due to a picture comparing black people to monkeys

>>9593413
3, the most bestial bipedal

>>9593242

Plato did it first desu

>>9593263
Plato didn't write anything

>>9593242
No one's had the time and the patience. Thousands of years of mythos and interconnections are not easy to top.

>homosexual and a pedophile.
>ancient greece

every homosexual is a pedophile you dumb fuck

He's showing that someone who doesnt "know" math (the boy) actually knows it via reasoning. This is a bad shitpost and I don't like it.

>>9593142
you're stupid for misunderstanding to begin with
a revolution requires pissed off people

>>9593162
Ur stupid

How does he justify this in the first place? I would say some sort of animism is probably the natural state of humans. Monotheism and atheism arise out of modern (capitalist) society.

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Check out Hannah Aren't.

>>9592988


Schopenhauer - On Women

I don't know much about him but Nietzsche has a few lines about women in Beyond Good and Evil, like why they get into philosophy, how they relate to truth, etc. Deep stuff bruh but check it out, take it in for a few months and you should get it.

>>9592928
No its fucking shit and nothing happens about the shrike in it. It forces you to read the next book with sucks ass.

>>9592928
if you've struggled to read it 3 separate times, i doubt a 4th is going to change things and that you'd enjoy it.

i love it, have read if 4-5 times. i also love fall of hyperion, which i know gets a lot of shit from lots of places. i enjoy how it's a very explicit conversation with the canterbury tales (which i also enjoy) but in a space opera setting. i also enjoy john keats as a character and the inclusion of his poetry. i also enjoyed the spiritual elements in it, which is not commonly explored in science fiction.

i think that giving it a 4th try is going to depend on why you want to read it. if you're just looking for a simple read and some easily forgettable space opera, i'd suggest looking elsewhere. if you want something like what i described above, you should give it a 4th shot and know that it gets better after the priest's story.

>>9592981
i like what it did for scifi, but its still a cautious step in the right direction.

>i enjoy how it's a very explicit conversation with the canterbury tales
sadly this will be remembered as a gimmick. it was even dropped in the second book.

>john keats as a character and the inclusion of his poetry.
the story with keats was one of the worst in it. this was a very frustrating part of simmons's narration.

>i also enjoyed the spiritual elements in it, which is not commonly explored in science fiction.
there is a metric fuckton of spirituality in science fiction. read swanwick, p j farmer, pkd, the dune series, some heinlein, the atheistic spirituality that was arthur clarke's tone, and zelazny. it was the whole feature of an entire generation of scifi writers.

>>9592976
>nothing happens about the shrike in it.
this, so much this. i can understand making it mysterious, but not even giving the shrike a proper defining moment? big mistake.

>forces you to read the next book with sucks ass.
another poor aspect of the book.

>>9592915
It's Harper Lee's version of Truman Capote's novel.

NOT CANNON

>>9592915
Nope
It's a SJW manipulating an old woman into publishing a few notes that were fleshed out into a "novel"

>>9592859
He's not a fat white neet fag, and is outside.

>>9592859
tfw no qt mixed race boyfriend for me to yell racial slurs at while he pounds me in the ass

>>9592859
He's the savior of /lit/.

I just have a small shelf of books I intend to read repeatedly, books I like to share with others, current technical reference books which I also like to keep an ebook copy of, and favorite cookbooks.

I keep extremely few books because I found little joy in using up my space storing tons of books I wouldn't use for years just for the sake of interior decorating essentially. Square footage costs too damn much.

>>9592856
I keep them in hopes my kids will read them. I plan on raising them without tv and video games so hopefully they pick up reading and don't do anything degenerate like picking up an instrument or playing a sport.

>>9592879
can't wait til your son disappoints the fuck out of you and becomes the most prolific olympian in history

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whose this old faggit

>>9592857
He's my favorite booktuber desu. Trolled the entire community not long ago.

>>9592862
I've watched 2 or 3 of his videos, what happened?

>>9592298
(Not that I'm complaining, it's gorgeous)

>>9592298
It's been a while since I've read it, but I remember that there are a few parts written from a certain character's perspective that get much harder to read, even without the references. As a whole though, I feel that people tend to over-estimate how hard it is.

>>9592298

It gets somewhat more difficult, but it is worth it. JR is even better too.

>>9592161

why was this movie so shiny

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the one with the most impressive helm is greatest anon, it is objectively known

Well they're both about equal as the latter is simply wielding his own "power" (knowledge) to guide the other one to do the same.
What does this have to do with literature though?

>>9591989
I would recommend you Heidegger's On Technology as I assume that you are German.

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heidegger is the guy

also

jacques ellul
marshall mcluhan
jean baudrillard
lewis mumford

>>9591998
>>9592014


not german, but thanks

but you guys are talking about XX century

I mean real recent, like 2000+ with all the smartphones and stuff

>>>/mu/

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Not Without A Game Sucka

>>9591420
Once I had
A little game
I'd like to crawl
Back in my brain
I think you know
The game I mean
I mean the game
Called go insane
You should try
This little game
Just close your eyes
Forget your name
Forget the world
Forget the people
And we'll erect
A different steeple
This little game
Is fun to do
Just close your eyes
We're breaking through, yeah!

Bump. If it helps, I think there was a world changing event, similar to Darwinia.

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Bump

>>9592570
I assume you're interested in it as well?