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Are there any authors who died while writing their book?
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BolaƱo and 2666... short of
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Dostoyevsky
>writing the sequel to brothers karamazov
>drops pen on the floor
>hits head on desk so hard that he dies
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Robert Muesli never finished The Oats Without Raisins
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Philosophical problems are false problems: they are due to linguistic misunderstandings
The structure of language reflects the structure of the world
The world is made of complex facts that can be broken down into simpler facts
Language is made of complex propositions that can be broken down into simpler propositions
Language is like a map of the world: the connections between the elements of language reflects the connections between the elements of the world
The structure of language reflects the structure of the world
The totality of true propositions (the totality of science) provide a representation of the world that is adequate and complete
Understanding a proposition is knowing "what is the case if it is true" (to which reality it corresponds)
The meaning of the world cannot be understood from inside the world
Ethics is impossible because we are inside the world that ethics struggles to understand
Metaphysics is a fictitious discipline due to a wrong use of language: it is neither true nor false, it cannot be justified (just like religion and magic)
Mathematical entities are pure constructions of the mind: the mathematician is an inventor
Mathematics cannot be grounded in the world: it is a game played by mathematicians
Language has a function
Words are tools
Assertions, commands, questions, etc
Language is a game between people
The meaning of a proposition can only be understood in its context
Truth is a multi-faceted concept: different statements can be all true without being true in the same way ("alethic pluralism")
The meaning of a word is due to the consensus of a society
To understand a word is to understand a language
To understand a language is to master the linguistic skills
Definitions are ambigous or implausible
Categories are based on "family resemblance", not on features
There is no ghost in the machine, no mind that understands, just "understanding"
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>Emojis are invented.
>Solves Wittgenstein's problems.
Too bad he was born like 70 years too early.
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Is this what wittgenstein actually believes?
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Thoughts?
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Garbo
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PRESTIGIOUS.
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Hi /lit/, I've finished Lost History by Bob Parry and now picked up two more books trawling secondhand bookshops, and I also have Weakness and Deceit: US Policy and El Salvador on order from eBay
Bonner is the journalist whose career was ruined for reporting on the el Mozote massacre
Can /lit/ recommend any other books?
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The Shock Doctrine would be a good addition.
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>Xenophon
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Stop reading non-fiction.
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English majors, is Ulysses/Finnegan's Wake mandatory for reading/analysis/studying/exam at your university?
At the public uni in my country people only study A Portrait of The Artist as a Young Man, but then again, I live in a country which is collapsed to the buttom.
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What are the core texts of Libertarianism?
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What are some good books about being a good person?
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Anarchy, State and Utopia by Nozick
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Post a name.
Post a book.
If your name gets called, you have another book to read.
Here you go, Jesse. Also Jessica.
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Hitting up some of those slav names now:
Artyom, Levi, Mikhail, Lazlo, Anton, Andrik, Fanny, Iva, Jan, Ivan, Fyodor, Boris.
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Joy, Joyce, Clara, Joel, caroline
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Kyle, Laurent, Troy
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"As a teenager, William Giraldi would pump himself full of steroids, hit the gym ... and secretly read Keats."
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/05/william-giraldi-on-life-as-a-bookish-bodybuilder-its-a-poisoned-way-to-be-a-man
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>secretly
Why? Would his meathead bros disown him?
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This dude spent his days in the most testosterone fueled environment imaginable, surrounded by heaving, sweaty muscles, men of perfect physique, ripped and swollen abs and pecs, the grunts of simultaneous pain and pleasure, and the smell of sweat and male exertion in pursuit of perfection. Admiring the progress of his peers and play-wrestling with them in the showers to see who was strongest.
If he'd read poetry, people would have thought he was fucking gay.
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>>9982787
This post made me erect
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Grimdark Edition.
>List books where authors wrote unneeded filler.
>Which author iyho is the King/Queen of filler?
>Last book/series you dropped because it was unashamedly cash grub filler.
>/SFFG/ Recommendations:
FANTASY
Selected:
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Flowchart:
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SCIENCE FICTION
Selected:
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NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
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Gor
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Gene Wolfe will always be the GOAT /sffg/ author, no amount of shitty cover art can change this objective fact.
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Russian version of Seveneves.
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Are there any sci-fi books with realistic time travel?
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>realistic
>time travel
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>Realistic
>Time travel
Say that out loud to yourself and think about where you went wrong here.
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>traveling through time
>of or relating to realism
What does /lit/ make of Robert E Howard's original Conan the Barbarian stories?
I was a fan of them when I was around 14 and just recently got around to rereading them. Maybe university lit classes have poisoned me on my outlook, but they seem to be a pretty standard male power fantasy. More than that, Conan has no flaws. He's very strong, yet also fast as a panther. He's savage and ferocious, yet also intelligent, cultured, even erudite. Irresistible to women, he doesn't even have to charm them, they're charmed by his very appearance and nature.
He's never embarrassed or inconvenienced by situations outside of his control. He never really encounters any situation he can't escape from or hack away.
I know at the end of the day they're just power fantasies for teenagers, but is there any value or analysis I'm missing in it? I really want to like Conan.
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Why do you want to like it then?
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>cultured, even erudite
Only at the latter stages of life, when he's king.
Also he does have flaws, he can be a prick at times, and is often working for the villain of the story. He then battles them when they refuse to pay him. His morals are more often than not about money.
If there is any themes it's thought that the stories are about civilization vs barbarism. But I think it's really about city folk vs rural people like those he lived with in Texas.
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I always thought this type of analysis was really shallow. What's a flaw? Doesn't the meaning of that vary from person to person? Some people think being an asshole is a flaw while another person might say it's admirable.
Conan struggles in his books right? He's put in dangerous situations. What's the problem than?
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>that part in stoner where he smokes weed for the first time
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>What did you expect?
FUCK, I felt the exact same the first time I tried it.
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> the part where he transforms from the Virgin Orbiter to the Chad Professor and gets it on til the early morn'
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>That part in no longer human where he wins the longest human contest
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Characters in literature like Chigurh?
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Chigurh
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Lord Farquad
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>And then... i woke up.
So i just saw this movie for the first time in the afternoon and holy shit, what a great movie indeed.
In the end it made feel wierd tho, a strange sensation.
The "hero" loses.
"Evil" gets away with it.
Good people die.
Justice is not made.
A whole roller coaster of feelings.
What are some good philosophy YouTube channels?
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The School of Life is descent imo
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Alain de botton is literally a god amongst men
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>you can write for years, invent new writing techniques, master the language and create a book based on all knowledge you've gained over the course of your life
>it will never be as iconic, beloved, popular, or read as The Bible
Has one book ever cucked so many writers this way? Truly this is the word of God
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At least my book would be clear to the point.
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>>9981523
>t. butthurt atheist
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>reading fiction
What does /lit/ think of self-publishing?
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Publishing is such a mess right now I think SP is just about the only way to go. No agent or publisher really knows what's good or bad (unless it's painfully, painfully bad).
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I feel like there's a chance for success, but the trouble is there's just so much stuff being self-published now that I worry the chances for that success are very slim. It feels like if you self-publish you have to be savvy about marketing and self-promotion, and I, at least, am not sure I am.
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>>9981435
Publishers do a lot of the work for you (proof-reading, cover art, marketing and of course the actual printing and distribution) but nowadays, there's nothing really stopping you from self-publishing.