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What are some Lovecraftian/Weird works in a modern (can also go as far back as Victorian) setting?
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M.R. James
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>>9495650
The complete works of H. P. Lovecraft.
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>>9495662
>kek
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"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation."
What does this Thoreau quote mean?
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>>9495617
It literally means jus b urself lol
Being American sucks, our 'literary' tradition is retarded
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>>9495617
People "resign" to their myopic, solitary lives, while "desperate" to make something of themselves, but they don't even know what they want out of life nor what is to be done.
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>>9495617
>jordan peterson
>thoreau
>hamilton
Ontario oughta walk the plank, m8s.
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So there is no doubt that Paris in the early-mid 20th century was the artistic capital of the world.
Think about all the writers who travelled and expanded their literary and artistic understanding there:
James Joyce
Ernest Hemingway
Samuel Beckett
F. Scott Fitzgerald
George Orwell
Ezra Pound
Vladimir Nabokov
Ford Maddox Ford
Marcel Proust
Jean-Paul Sartre
Simone de Beauvoir
Albert Camus
Gertrude Stein
Henry Miller
Hart Crane
Not to mention hundreds of other artists practising their artforms and forming relationships with other artists
Where does this exist in the physical world now? Not the Internet.
Is there any semblance from any city or area that has this?
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>>9495555
All cities have artistic communities, fat faggot
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>>9495555
Some Frenchies were in New York at the time. Man Ray, for instance. And Marcel Duchamps. Perhaps Paris then was the realization of the American dream for certain American artists, and writers..
Berlin.
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Los Angeles.
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In this thread we write a short story to narrate this cartoon depicting the dead of a meme. One paragraph per post. Go.
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based redditbro
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Meme died today, or maybe yesterday
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but if it be, than why it do like it does with it such that
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Why do you guys love this? Should I read it?
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I liked it. Its very scenic. Read for the prose and style.
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It's unique aesthetic portrayal of nature and violence.
The question is: is human violence as much a part of the landscape, that he displays with such precision?
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honestly, I read half of it and set it down. You'll get the gist of it in the first 50 pages.
Define an intellectual
Can you be an intellectual without higher education? Can you be an intellectual without reading books?
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This thread isn't about books you stupid little fucking bitch.
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>>9495516
>Define an intellectual
Has taken the redpill
>Can you be an intellectual without higher education?
Higher ed is liberal brainwashing
>Can you be an intellectual without reading books?
Books are mostly degenerate with a few exceptions, see pic related
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>>9495521
>implying de facto /lit/ is only about books
/his/ is just /pol/ with dates. all questions concerning the intellectual life belong to /lit/
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How's your awesome novel going sweethearts?
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>>9495486
Not very well seeing as I can't write a single paragraph of fiction without coming off as pretentious, clunky, purple, and stupid.
Can you blame me if I want my prose to be different from the average stephen king dogshit?
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>>9495567
not op but i think this is every writer's goal.
try practicing writing what you are trying to say rather than how you want it to look on paper, this could help find your mood and tone and to get past the drivel
>>9495486
I am reading classics and pop-lit to substitute for dropping out of school and taking it slow.
moving my words from my notes to the computer is daunting and tiring, I thought today that maybe I should just write it out, but typing is so much faster. though the novel is going nowhere sitting in my notes.
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>>9495486
Finished, off to publishers for rejection. Tired of fiddling with it.
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What book comes after the Iliad/Odyssey recommendations /lit/ gives? After reading them can i branch out to whatever part of Greek literature want? or Is the Aeneid the next in the timeline?
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>>9495473
There's Hesiod, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Herodotus, Thucydides, The Bible, Plato, Aristotle.
And then a lot more if you're interested.
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>>9495473
I read this immediately after Homer and thoroughly enjoyed it. Herodotus was influenced by Homer's work and continues some of his themes. Overall I think i enjoyed it even more than Homer.
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There was no time line of events
to accurately rely upon when
it comes to Greek history. Which book came before, you can never tell,
so grab a book and just infer
you're bound to discover some thing swell!
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his most popular book has 181 ratings. Jesus christ this man is going to die before anyone acknowledges him for the genious that he is. Top 5 English writers of the 20th century. You should all be ashamed of yourselves for grave injustice! Look how angry gaddis was when he died. Reading agape agape is like having an old man scream at you and just want to be hear for 150 pages. Thank God he is going to bless us with the water book before he goes 3000 pages of water.
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>>9495466
APOLOGIZE
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>>9495466
At least I can be rest assured in the knowledge that he followed me on instagram before he died and that I, at the very least, knew who he was.
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>>9495561
You are doing gods work my son. Bless your soul.
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did you ever have a sister did you
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I had three sisters. They all had laundry hampers.
I have sniffed so many pairs of panties you can't even imagine.
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Step sister if that count, she was a cunt and her dad never punished her.
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>>9495430
Probably because she liked it.
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Thoughts? Why do the French have such a hardon for him?
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who is this faggot.
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>>9495442
Edward "Ellen" Poo
He started goth fashion
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>>9495442
>he doesn't know Edgar Allan Poe
Do you live in some kind of third world cultureless shithole?
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Postmodernism
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first
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Can I get a quick rundown on this book?
(preferably a quick rundown of each of the three volumes)
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>>9495313
>Can I get a quick rundown on this book?
no. Read it or fuck off back to where you came from
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>>9495313
surplus value and political reform
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>>9495321
But it's three thousand pages. I will read it but it will take years
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On the applied practice of Philosophy
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Hello /lit/
Many times I've seen people reference philosophy on this site, but few times do I believe these same people know how to practice their own philosophy. I think that it actually may be difficult for some people, and still we tell them to 'start with the Greeks'. But how can they if they don't understand the basis?
ITT: I will tell how to actual practice and understanding of philosophy, instead of the discussion of it, is in fact a practical skill and not just a theoretical one.
I urge you to practice your philosophy: virtue is not just a theoretical knowledge. It is practical, like both medical and musical knowledge. The doctor and the musician must each not only learn the principles of his own skill but to be trained to act according to those principles. Likewise, the man who wants to be good must not only learn the lessons which pertain to virtue but train himself to follow them eagerly and rigorously.
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>>9495290
I'm pretty sure everyone of the Christians here that are obsessed with Plato's Phaedo are grateful they don't apply themselves too judiciously.
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>philosophy
>useful
I do not believe you.
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>>9495290
Could someone acquire instant self control by merely knowing that he must not be conquered by pleasures but without training to resist them? Could someone become just by learning that he must love moderation but without practicing the avoidance of excess? Could we acquire courage by realizing that things which seem terrible to most people are not to be feared but without practicing being fearless toward them? Could we become wise by recognizing what things are truly good and what things are bad but without having been trained to look down upon things which seem to be good?
Therefore practicing each virtue always must follow learning the lessons to appropriate it, or it is just pointless for us to learn about it. The person who claims to be studying philosophy must practice it even more diligently than he person who aspires to the art of medicine or some similar skill, inasmuch as philosophy is more important and harder to grasp than any other pursuit. People who study skills other than philosophy have not been previously corrupted in their souls by learning things contrary to what they are about to learn, but people who attempt to study philosophy, since they have been already in the midst of much corruption and are filled will evil, pursue virtue in such a condition that they need even more practice in it.
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What are some books that resemble the works of charlie kaufman? Particularly works like Synecdoche, New York which deals heavily in themes of love and death and the relationship between the two. I'm about halfway through White Noise which seems to do something to this effect but I'd like something that has a little more to do with romantic love
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the talmud
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>>9495291
This doesn't seem like it fits my description at all after a quick glance lol. But i'll bite, what does it have to say about love and death?
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>>9495332
Not even sure if serious bait, or super silly bait.
Its a cornerstone of a major world religion. The whole damn think is about love and death. There's a fair bit about war, but lets face it, that's the same thing really.