Was Demian just a figment of Sinclair's imagination?
>Look at me Demian it's all for you!
What did he mean by this?
everything was real except the last scene
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Sinclair's Demian became my Demian.
“I am going to take not just all of their best authors but all of the best authors of all of the conservative imprints in this country and launch my own imprint called Dangerous Books. We are going to publish every mischievous, dissident, hellraising guy you have ever heard of… We’re going to be going live in the next seven days.”
Thoughts?
>>9481709
If he pulls it off fair play to him. I can respect people who succeed in their business ventures regardless of my opinion of them. Personally I dont really like him but I see why other people do
>>9481709
No one cares.
Do you think getting published by them will be a death sentence to an aspiring author>
>meteoric rise
What did they mean by this?
a quick ascent
>>9482339
OP asked what "they" mean. You're retarded.
Started reading more and more recently. What is one book you feel everyone should read or that makes you feel angry that someone has never read before?
>>9481595
obligatory my diary desu.
>>9481595
Walden. Even the people on here that say they have read it are either lying or are so retarded that they didn't understand any of it.
>>9481595
>the bible
>moby dick
>half of the threads are about philosophy
>on the literature board
awesome
>>9481538
I don't know why the history boards needs to be shitted up with it as well. You guys can keep it since this place would be slower than /3/
>>9481538
The correct answer is who cares.
The average person playing this game would probably go again if it was lower than .5. You wouldn't have a calculator and formula sheets with you, and even if you did, it doesn't matter because the problem has no relation to reality anyway.
tl;dr just cut the knot with a sword
t. Alexander the Great
Who in the heck are you quoting OP?
Why is the second chapter of this book perfect? I've never felt so attached to a book in my life before. The second chapter alone could be an independent short story and it would still be glorious. I literally had to drop the book off and walk around in circles. Sweet Jesus is like I was having an attention orgasm the whole way trough.
>>9481428
Post a nice excerpt for the /lit/izens among us who haven't read this one yet.
>>9481428
have read but dont remember chapter, post some dawg
The middle part
is there a way to solve the case before the answer is revealed at the end of the episode?
if so, what books do i need to read for mentalism gains?
>>9481372
Watch Psych instead
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9zjc7_psych-on-usa-network-the-mentalist_shortfilms
>>9481372
I fucking love that show
>>9481382
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qf8M57we1I
Premise 1: Life is an accident, death is natural.
Premise 2: Sleep represents our unconscious desire to return to the natural state of nothingness/non-duality.
Premise 3: our fascination with violence is a reflection of the death drive, in the sense that the act is, even if performed in a simulation, a reflection of our desire to return to a state of nothingness and non-duality.
Therefore, humans possess a death drive.
Well, the argument is no cogent; for instance, premise one seems arbitrary.
On-premise 1:
Schopenhauer said the most common form of being is the form of inanimate objects, which can be debated about forever because we'll never know that for certain. Furthermore, life seems perfectly natural its self; in fact, Nietzche would say everything is a will to power, active forces acting on other active forces, not mechanical passivity. So, life not only seems not to be an accident, if you accept Nietzsche's argument, but it is entirely natural.
On-premise 2:
Sleep also serves a teleological function; that is to say, without sleep we would die. So it seems sleep could also represent a will to live, a will to prolong life, a will to live a more enriched life. Even furthermore, one could conjecture that humans are so obsessed with experience that we sleep to enter new realms of experience; consider, some people believe that sleep is a form of threat-simulation. So, we developed a new means of experience in order to aid in our ability to learn about the environment. My point being, premise 2 seems more poetic and a reflection of personal values rather than a "truth".
On-premise 3:
Well, violence also serves the function of being used in a defensive mechanism; meaning, it can be a tool that allows us to live longer. Nevertheless, our obsession with violence is more concrete than unconscious desires, it's a neural pattern that activates in the orbital frontal cortex. And, on top of that, it does not work like a "drive" but rather much more like a "modulatory response." That is to say, aggression is a response to environmental stimuli, or internal regulatory processes such as neuroendocrine phenomena
Here is my issue with Freud and almost every other philosopher. They speculate about how reality operates, they presume rationality can carve reality out. In my view, rationality ought to be limited to commenting and reflection on rationality its self, and claims about reality need be left to observations alone. Our thoughts do not determine the nature of reality, and to think that my conception of reality is even accurate presumes that the brain has a capacity to accurately conceptualize millions of variables. No, the brain cannot even determine if the perceptual environment is real or not, yet alone determine how reality operates.
>>9481355
Your premises are wrong and stupid, Freud is stupid, your conclusion is stupid, but what you say in your last paragraph is correct.
>>9481367
wrong
>>9481355
Now, given that, as George Boole pointed out, there are some peculiar universal functions in human thought, then it seems thought can analyze thought because all thought works by the same principles. So, allow the sensory organs to engage in observation, and allow philosophy to analyze philosophy, because that's all philosophy really can do.
Also, Richard Dawkins thought experiment about the gene's eye view would disagree with this entire presentation of death drives. If a gene was actively trying to kill its self, it would have never existed for soo long.
Especially when they're smug about their consumption and have never created anything.
>>9481292
Yep avid listeners who can't play a musical instrument or sing.
>>9481292
If we're busy writing how can you expect us to read your hack fiction, op?
Why? It's a horrible waste of time to write knowing that nobody will ever read my shit, and I don't have any pretentious delusions of grandeur to think that I'm capable of birthing the next Divine Comedy. There are too many shitstain authors in the world as it is
Can we talk about this book?
I thought it was amazing. Had a real dark atmosphere to it. Felt more akin to Bulgakov than to Gogol though, as I'd seen advertised.
And its as dense as I'd heard. The translator must have had the patience of a saint.
Is Krasznahorkai lit's current end-of-level-boss?
>>9481251
>Is Krasznahorkai lit's current end-of-level-boss?
No. László joined your party.
>>9481251
His sentences are really long.
But the prose is pretty.
t.Magyar
>>9481347
I know! And some of them went on almost half the page in some cases, never once losing the flow
>Friend Recommends House of Leaves
>Amazon it in
>First page
Did I just fucking drop $$$ on a book that I'm not allowed to read?
>>9481232
It's not that you're not allowed to read it. It's just that it's not 4 u.
>Did I just fucking drop $$$ on a book that I'm not allowed to read?
Yes, stupid people aren't allowed to read
>>9481238
Was reading a novel part of your plan?
Recently a friend of my mother lost her son to cancer. The kid was only 13 years old.
After that I started rehearsing in my mind what could be said to that mother that would somehow alleviate her suffering even a little bit. I was looking for answers that did not depend upon concepts like reincarnation, karma, live after death, soul, spirit, paradise, heaven, etc. I wanted to know what I could say to a mother who has lost her child in such a tender age that could make her feel better even with the likely possibility that her sun might be nothing right now, that he might be forever gone. I could not think in an appropriate answer.
Then I asked myself this question:
>If Buddha and Christ were in the same position: needing to comfort that mother, and if they could not use any concept of life after death like the Karma and Rebirth of Buddhism, or the Paradise of Christianism, what could they possibly say? How could a really wise person comfort a mother who has lost a young son without the aid of any drop of hope that he might still exist?
Any thoughts?
The Buddha could probably say something about Samsara and Jesus could relay messages from the kid to her, thus proving he's doing fine in Heaven.
Buddha wouldn't have to say anything. His mere presence would comfort the grieving mother.
>>9481217
But that violates the rule of the question:
>“and if they could not use any concept of life after death like the Karma and Rebirth of Buddhism, or the Paradise of Christianism”,
Is this book only for meatheads filled with steroids with small dicks who listen to the Joe Rogan podcast?
It's also got a strong presence among the insecure overcompensating tim ferriss crowd.
>not naming your book four hour discipline
>>9481233
Really? I'm noticing a pattern here....
>>9481207
I like biographies by Navy Seals or other special forces because I think one can learn from those guys and they are somewhat entertaining
Self Help or advice books are for losers though
We come up with phony book titles and other anons work out what they'd be about.
>The Sentinel's Silhouette
>Terminus of the Origin
>A Soliloquy for Gregor
Time flies tomorrow
The chameleons song
Manchester maid
Torquato Tasso: Fuckfest in Ferrara
Piss Jug Chug-a-Lug
"Aight now listen up, there be two kinds of hos', my man": The Eddie Garcia Story
Invitation to a Re-Heading
>>9481285
Nice Fraser references
https://www.amazon.com/Million-Random-Digits-Normal-Deviates/dp/0833030477
>A Million Random Digits with 100,000 Normal Deviates is a random number book by the RAND Corporation, originally published in 1955. The book, consisting primarily of a random number table, was an important 20th century work in the field of statistics and random numbers. It was produced starting in 1947 by an electronic simulation of a roulette wheel attached to a computer, the results of which were then carefully filtered and tested before being used to generate the table. The RAND table was an important breakthrough in delivering random numbers, because such a large and carefully prepared table had never before been available. In addition to being available in book form, one could also order the digits on a series of punched cards.
pic related, Lines 10580–10594, columns 21–40
>>9481094
looking for more books like this, recomendations?
>>9481097
Tree of Codes by Safran Foer.
>>9481102
hmmm, too intentional, but I see how it's similar. Presumably the author looked over each page combination? It'd be better in a three ring binder with the pages randomized or something.
Essentially, I want a book that is cold and inhuman, without any distinction from one line to the next. Or a book that doesn't change when you read it in a new order.
Burroughs cut ups come to mind. But I want something more extreme.