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String fullTitle = "Welcome to /lit/";
int postNumber = "11931854";
String image = "lit.jpg";
String date = "10/14/18(Sun)13:26:30";
String comment = "/lit/ is for the discussion of literature, specifically books (fiction & non-fiction), short stories, poetry, creative writing, etc. If you want to discuss history, religion, or the humanities, go to /his/. If you want to discuss politics, go to /pol/. Philosophical discussion can go on either /lit/ or /his/, but those discussions of philosophy that take place on /lit/ should be based around specific philosophical works to which posters can refer.

Check the wiki, the catalog, and the archive before asking for advice or recommendations, and please refrain from starting new threads for questions that can be answered by a search engine.

/lit/ is a slow board! Please take the time to read what others have written, and try to make thoughtful, well-written posts of your own. Bump replies are not necessary.

Looking for books online? Check here:
Guide to #bookz
https://www.geocities.ws/prissy_90/Media/Texts/BookzHelp19kb.htm
Bookzz
http://b-ok.org/
Recommended Literature
http://4chanlit.wikia.com/wiki/Recommended_Reading";

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String fullTitle = "EmptyTitle";
int postNumber = "16430367";
String image = "booknotes.jpg";
String date = "09/23/20(Wed)23:47:57";
String comment = ">littering a perfectly good book with banal notes

Do Americans really?";

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String fullTitle = "EmptyTitle";
int postNumber = "16429496";
String image = "w3.jpg";
String date = "09/23/20(Wed)20:58:07";
String comment = "I need to become more aggressive /lit/. Any books to help evoke aggressive nature, post them below.";

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String fullTitle = "EmptyTitle";
int postNumber = "16429919";
String image = "1.jpg";
String date = "09/23/20(Wed)22:16:13";
String comment = "Have you ever considered writing erotica, /lit/? There is a burgeoning 3dX market for video games (available on Steam), with quite longform written dating-sim stories, and they're making bank.
I also feel like self-publishing under a nom de plume and catering to the clear archetypical sexual tastes of basic college-aged and middle-aged women could be a striking while the iron is hot while Covid sweeps the country a second time.

Is this worth it? Have you guys ever considered it? How would I stay fully anonymous?";

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String fullTitle = "EmptyTitle";
int postNumber = "16422946";
String image = "3e700acccb996c1c031346cd48f43659.png";
String date = "09/22/20(Tue)23:18:49";
String comment = "Can we have a language learning thread? What language is /lit/ learning? What books are you reading? What tools are you using to study and learn? I'm learning Mandarin personally. I still don't know what books to get on the subject.";

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String fullTitle = "EmptyTitle";
int postNumber = "16426970";
String image = "William-Shakespeare-e1518083199629.jpg";
String date = "09/23/20(Wed)15:06:56";
String comment = "I could never get into Shakespeare because plays aren't meant to be read like a book. Since theaters are closed right now, what are some good versions of audiobook versions of Shakespeares work?";

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String fullTitle = "Just... really makes me think";
int postNumber = "16429927";
String image = "1500179117418.jpg";
String date = "09/23/20(Wed)22:18:37";
String comment = "Exactly. By making him suffer. Obedience is not enough. Unless he is suffering, how can you be sure that he is obeying your will and not his own? Power is in inflicting pain and humiliation. Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing. Do you begin to see, then, what kind of world we are creating? It is the exact opposite of the stupid hedonistic Utopias that the old reformers imagined. A world of fear and treachery is torment, a world of trampling and being trampled upon, a world which will grow not less but MORE merciless as it refines itself. Progress in our world will be progress towards more pain. The old civilizations claimed that they were founded on love or justice. Ours is founded upon hatred. In our world there will be no emotions except fear, rage, triumph, and self-abasement. Everything else we shall destroy – everything. Already we are breaking down the habits of thought which have survived from before the Revolution. We have cut the links between child and parent, and between man and man, and between man and woman. No one dares trust a wife or a child or a friend any longer. But in the future there will be no wives and no friends. Children will be taken from their mothers at birth, as one takes eggs from a hen. The sex instinct will be eradicated. Procreation will be an annual formality like the renewal of a ration card. We shall abolish the orgasm. Our neurologists are at work upon it now. There will be no loyalty, except loyalty towards the Party. There will be no love, except the love of Big Brother. There will be no laughter, except the laugh of triumph over a defeated enemy. There will be no art, no literature, no science. When we are omnipotent we shall have no more need of science. There will be no distinction between beauty and ugliness. There will be no curiosity, no enjoyment of the process of life. All competing pleasures will be destroyed."";

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String fullTitle = "Greek science thread: Concoct your own Ambrosia";
int postNumber = "16430386";
String image = "Sanzio_01_Euclid.jpg";
String date = "09/23/20(Wed)23:50:50";
String comment = "ITT: We will end this plight of ignorance brought about by the inability to conceptualize the definitive "status of the Earth" in mid-classical Hellenistic times. For the sake of this argument let's say it's 400 BCE (it's a nice round number) but feel free to expand and contract. For starters: let's assume we are living in a post-Persian war society, and we are at the epicenter of modern thought residing on the outskirts of Athens. We are not philosophers, not aristocrats, not captains of the navy. Whatever is above an Attican slave, that's us. We are the nameless masses. We bump elbows with people in the city from time to time when we grab our produce from the Agora, we shoot the shit about how crazy Erxymachus got at the celebration of Dionysus, and how he got caught up in the lambskin rug and almost rolled over the earth plane into oblivion. Would we be familiar with the concept of the Round-Sphere Earth; familiar enough to integrate it into our Being? I need some explicit sauce from Parmenides, Democritus, Plato, the Pythagoreans, Anaximander, the Seven Sages, or someone with a hot-take on the sexy curves of corporeal reality. All of the maps on astronomy are comprised of absurd illustrations and childlike fascinations. Is Aristotle our lightning rod here? Circulating the circumference and sphericity of the planet? What proofs had he other than smashing crayons together? Later, nearing the decline of the Greek world, Ptolemy had some more profound insights into the latitudes and angles of the sun, enough for the cartographers to map the climes, rotundity, and modern image of an Earth globe. I am aware that the Earth Globe wasn't a stigma in most mathematics and philosophical circles. Still, by no stretch of the imagination are we to assume that the "Round-Earthers" were the majority in 400 BCE, though, most certainly less of a minority in 100 BCE. Nonetheless, it obviously didn't "stick" and was necessarily rediscovered and reproven over and over again. Where exactly did the Romans drop the metaphorical ball? Did the world descend into militaristic chaos and lose all intellectual progress, favoring politics over science? Flat or round doesn't matter when you are sacking and annexing the Mediterranean world. You need more sharp sticks and less inquisitive minds. By Jove! We aren't even mentioning the geocentric/heliocentric fiasco. This isn't revisionist garble, nor is it being unkind to scientific/technological advancement of the era. I'm just trying to formulate a coherent picture of the progress of humanity, the value is arbitrarily predicated on the most basic form of empiricism and is thus removed from the mystic's interpretation and other voodoo whims. How much of the picture can we see at any given moment? No clever wordplay, no bullshit. Pythagoras to Galileo to Newton to Einstien. Every other "philosopher" in-between these Titans are charlatans and unnatural, upsidedown thinkers better suited for the illusions of bedtime stories.";

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String fullTitle = "EmptyTitle";
int postNumber = "16422280";
String image = "clipping_0D8Xwg_27cb.jpg";
String date = "09/22/20(Tue)21:24:22";
String comment = "Some boomer paid me to translate a French novel after considering me "good with languages" for owning a big English dictionary.

I barely know any French, so I'm just writing fanfiction.";

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String fullTitle = "EmptyTitle";
int postNumber = "16430481";
String image = "vidal (2).jpg";
String date = "09/24/20(Thu)00:09:41";
String comment = "If you're truly /lit/erarian then name your favorite Homosexual writers.";

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String fullTitle = "Reminder that Chad worship is of the deepest form of nihilism";
int postNumber = "16426998";
String image = "gigantichad.jpg";
String date = "09/23/20(Wed)15:11:28";
String comment = ""One must address the opinion that nihilism is a disease with caution. With a bit of observation, one will find that physical health is connected with it—above all, where it is vigorously at work. With passive nihilism it is different. The dialectical play of increasing sensitivity and increasingly powerful actions that move our age is based upon it. Primarily, one cannot maintain that nihilism is based upon disease, nor even upon decadence, although both are certainly found there in abundance.

If one considers the immense efforts of work and of will that the active nihilist demands of himself, his disdain for pity and pain, the fluctuations from high to low temperatures to which he exposes himself, and the cult of the body and its worldly powers that one ordinarily finds in him, one must admit that he has received the gift of good health. And in fact one can discover that he has established a level of performance that he demands of himself and others absolutely. In this, he is not unlike the Jacobin who can be considered one of his precursors.

Nevertheless, it is peculiar that such Cyclopes and Titans emerge in a world in which caution is increasing in the extreme, and where one wants to avoid even the slightest draft. Meanwhile, in the welfare state, with its entitlements, health insurance, safety nets and narcotics, one sees types emerging, whose skin is tanned like leather and whose skeleton seems to be of iron. It may be that these are complementary figures, in the sense of color theory; the general weakening of nerve requires it. One inquires about their schools, about what has shaped them. They are surely diverse.

In the first place, one can recognize the school of civil war—the life of the political nihilists and social revolutionaries, the camps and prisons, Siberia. With them also belong, like a mirror image, the dispossessed, the degraded, the disgraced, escapees from the waves of terror, purges and liquidations. One sees here the one and there the other triumphant, or even, as in Spain, at a stalemate. What is common in all these encounters is their complete mercilessness. The adversary is no longer seen as a man; he stands outside the law."";

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String fullTitle = "book no read";
int postNumber = "16430230";
String image = "book no.jpg";
String date = "09/23/20(Wed)23:22:36";
String comment = "Recommend me a book that 100% sure would make me feel like Pic Related";

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String fullTitle = "Which character in literature made you go:";
int postNumber = "16430625";
String image = "FB_IMG_1600300757826.jpg";
String date = "09/24/20(Thu)00:41:08";
String comment = "god I wish that were me";

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String fullTitle = "EmptyTitle";
int postNumber = "16429936";
String image = "E3CE068A-73C9-491C-91FD-2D699813AED7.png";
String date = "09/23/20(Wed)22:20:35";
String comment = "the executive order that saved American academia";

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String fullTitle = "Steven King is 73";
int postNumber = "16423986";
String image = "AA15FEFE-C8F2-4E92-8076-E0B16F771725.jpg";
String date = "09/23/20(Wed)03:53:53";
String comment = "Say something nice";