I have to write a 80-page thesis on Hegel's philosophy of religion, that's due on the July 31st. I've written 3 pages. How fucked am I /lit/?
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>>9412833
Given you're asking this question on your favourite shitposting board: extremely.
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>>9412833
Shouldn't be that hard, his views on religion and Lutheranism are pretty pervasive throughout his works
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Not as fucked as me - I have to write a haiku by the start of next semester, and I haven't even started.
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>As the expression of power's irreversible time, chronicles were a means of maintaining the voluntaristic forward progression of this time on the basis of the recording of its past; "voluntaristic," because such an orientation is bound to collapse, along with the particular power to which it corresponds, and sink once more into the indifferent oblivion of a solely cyclical time, a time known to the peasant masses who - no matter that empires may crumble along with their chronologies - never change. Those who possessed history gave it an orientation - a direction, and also a meaning. But their history unfolded and perished apart, as a sphere leaving the underlying society unaffected precisely because it was a sphere separate from common reality. This is why, from our point of view, the history of Oriental societies may be reduced to a history of religions: all we can reconstruct from their ruins is the seemingly independent history of the illusions that once enveloped them.
Is Debord's point in Time and History to show how the proletariat has not only been alienated from his work through division of labor, but separated from his history as the bourgeoisie impose cyclical time onto them while simultaneously writing their own history apart from reality?
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I think the cyclical vs. linear time is one of the most important philosophical questions. Could you expand a little on how you see the bourgeoisie "imposing" cyclical time? I'm genuinely interested.
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>>9412829
> bourgeoisie impose cyclical time onto them
He's arguing it's the other way around.
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How's that book coming along, /lit/?
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like this
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>>9412815
I've almost gotten to thebeginningof reading it
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Good! Thanks!
I read some article called how-i-went-from-writing-2000-words-day.html which is mostly useless because she's a garbage author but it did make me realise a simple rule; No Boring Scenes. If a chapter or scene or any part of it has nothing more interesting going on than moving the plot forwards then it needs to be changed or cut.
It needs an idea, an emotion or a joke or it's gone.
This is really helpful for writing as well as potential readers, because I'm kept interested in it, I feel invested.
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Books similar to stranger things 2017-04-22 10:34:32 Post No.9412758
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Books similar to stranger things
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I just got done watching this show, and would love to get some of the same spirit in lit form. I know this show isn't based on any book, but do you guys know of some, that share certain aspects with the show, and just feel equal? I loved the game earthbound btw. And it somehow reminds me of stranger things, so that might help.
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>>9412758
I've never watched this show but Stephen King and Kurt Vonnegut were authors that influenced earthbound and from what I can tell Stranger Things reeks of Stephen King.
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The series borrows or imitates or pays homage to a number of sources of film and book
The experiment mixes elements of The Fury, Altered States, Fire Starter.
The kids are a mix of E.T., the Goonies, Stand By Me.
The mystery mixes It, Poltegeist, E.T., the short story The Mist.
The dreary small town/suburban angst is a mix of Stephen King and Steven Spielberg.
The score draws upon John Carpenters work and Tangerine Dreams soundtracks.
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expect a whole genre/subgenre of similar stuff to pop up
few seconds of a radiant filmstrip has a eighties feel
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>in library yesterday
>go to arts & crafts section
>scan fashion section
>see book about numbered as a fashion book
>what do?
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>>9412661
*about fgm
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>>9412682
that female genital mutilation seems an odd thing to label as fashion
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Prose and poetry are finished as art forms 2017-04-22 08:46:28 Post No.9412592
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Prose and poetry are finished as art forms
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>tfw wasted all my free time reading for years
>tfw I gained nothing but surface level pseudointellectual tier knowledge before realising that practice, experience constitute infinitely many more possible modes of experience and skills acquisition, none of which can be adequately replaced by reading
>example: Reading 10 books about physics instead of doing physics assignments / research projects
>realise that reading is pushed by the privileged, well connected strata of society as a form of social signalling
>see the cool shit that people do related to programming and become regretful
I don't even mean people getting rich. I get insanely jealous of people who do stuff like the face morphing meme app or 2D vidya. There are optimal times to get in to activities.
I think the life and death of art forms is ignored on /lit/. It is absolutely significant that literature today is mainly a way to give easy degrees / professorships to upper middle class women who are too lazy or risk averse to do other things.
I also have been shocked by how faggoty writers are in general. Writers these days aren't people who writer, they're "Writers" who write for other "Writers".
>inb4 you try to conflate reading prose with reading a mathematical research paper
You will attempt that.
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>>9412592
Now kill yourself. Your shtick on here is getting a bit tedious. Same shit every single day
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Maybe if you understood anything you've read, you'd know what to do know instead of crying like a bitch
>There are no such things as principles; there are only events, and there are no laws but those of expediency: a man of talent accepts events and the circumstances in which he finds himself, and turns everything to his own ends.
Father Goriot (Balzac)
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>>9412671
I agree with the quote but if you lurked more you'd see that /lit/ derides any sort of subjectivism. If an academic doesn't advocate something it isn't true!
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Do you keep a journal to record your autobiography?
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>>9412520
My Diary Desu
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>>9412520
How do I make it patrician?
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I'm currently writing an autibiographical account of something that happened in 2012.
I have little interest in autobiography beyond that one event, however, and my life is neither interesting nor varied enough to warrant keeping a daily account of it.
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are you on track /lit/?
if not, why not?
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5 books completed, 4 books behind schedule.
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3 out of 12. Right on schedule
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>>9412403
I will unironically say I'm pretty sure only brainlets do this.
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Is every character in this book a caricature?
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>So that's it huh? We're some kinda Confederacy of Dunces
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is every character in every book a caricature?
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>>9412381
I thought they were all realistic as fuck. Maybe you're too sheltered about the types of people out there and the depths of their neuroses.
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Reminder: if you haven't read all of these you are literally a pseud.
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>>9412176
>read those in school
>still a retard
nice try
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I read The Huger Games and the Harry Potter books and my IQ is 145.
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>>9412249
>Huger Games
I'm a huge Orson Welles and I approve this message
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You can replace a Shakespeare play's title with 1 letter but you can't change anymore details
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Ass you like it
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I hope somebody writes a modern day Hamlet-inspired play entitled "Manlet".
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I started reading Infinite Jest about a year ago and stopped just over a third of the way through.
Should I continue it, start it from the beginning, or just drop everything and read the Greeks?
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burn it
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Read the Wikipedia synopsis and then pretend you read the entire thing.
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Was Joseph the most /lit/ nazi?
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The one with a PhD in literature? Probably, yeah.
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>>9412128
Hess and Goering are way more /lit/
You're shit at being a nazi.
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>>9412128
I don't know how /lit/ he was but I sure do know that feel.
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>lmao Wordsworth and Milton are shit, you should read these no-name minor poets instead!
Why did people take this hack seriously?
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Wordsworth is shit. Don't get his beef with Milton though. Pound had good taste, though he misfires sometimes, like with HD.
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>>9412061
>Wordsworth is shit.
I struggle to understand how you came to this conclusion.
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>>9412051
#triggered
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So what's the connection between the lovecraft and "The King in Yellow", and is the latter worth checking out if I'm into lovecraft?
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Never read about a king in yellow. There's the yellow sign which is tied to the deity Hastur. Sorry for not helping
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To answer your second question, yes, it's worth checking.
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>>9412016
I haven't read any of Chambers' stuff, but if you want to see some of what Lovecraft thought of him you can check out Lovecraft's essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature":
http://www.hplovecraft.com/writings/texts/essays/shil.aspx
It's pretty long, but you can search for "Chambers" in the text if you want. And the whole thing is an interesting read.