File: Nietzsche187c.jpg (10KB, 170x256px) Image search:
[Google]
10KB, 170x256px
>The facts are true, the news is fake.
Wow, another prediction that came true!
3 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
People who post threads with Neetshoe portraits should be automatically reported, b& and v&.
Seriously, kys yourself, familia.
Sage.
>>
>>9229825
Why? Fred was a pretty nice guy.
File: 66306-004-7DF4A6BE.jpg (22KB, 388x450px) Image search:
[Google]
22KB, 388x450px
I'm at a crossroads, /lit, and I have two options.
A) Continue working my current job, four days a week, 9-5. There is room for expansion but the pay won't increase much. It is relevant to my undergrad major.
I cannot see this as a career job, more just a stop-gap for work and something to put on a resume.
B) Do a M.A. in English Literature. This is not a career study, but would be for personal interest and fulfilment. I would not be able to do both this and my current job, I would have to forfeit it.
I don't know what to do. I'm 23 years old, 2 years out of university. My heart tells me to do the M.A., because I love literature, and I have always regretted not choosing English as my undergrad major but my reasoning says to stick with the job.
Any advice?
15 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9229798
You forget option C) Kill yourself pathetic blogposter
>>
>>9229798
You're on a literature board on the ass of the internet asking if you should keep working a cuck job or get a reading books gold star from uni fucks, you already know what you want to do and I doubt many here actually care.
File: images.jpg (5KB, 190x266px) Image search:
[Google]
5KB, 190x266px
Cringey question, I know, but are there any books out there that could actually teach me how to get better with women?
Preferably as a skill, rather than a philosophy or self-help type of approach.
4 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
File: femme-fatale.jpg (464KB, 2375x3324px) Image search:
[Google]
464KB, 2375x3324px
don't post a fucking thumbnail, you dripping asshole
>>
>>
>>9229791
Nausea
File: Nietzsche-600-1024x576.png (870KB, 1024x576px) Image search:
[Google]
870KB, 1024x576px
I'm trying to find a quote. I think it was Nietzsche who said it, but I could be wrong.
It's something like: the history of philosophy is a series of misreadings.
3 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9229789
read the second meditation
>>
>>9229800
thanks
Anonymous
Don't no one steal my idea, but I'm thinking of 2017-03-12 11:36:51 Post No.9229769
[Report] Image search: [Google]
Don't no one steal my idea, but I'm thinking of 2017-03-12 11:36:51 Post No.9229769
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: xGednI7[1].png (220KB, 400x400px) Image search:
[Google]
![xGednI7[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/LM2lTGY.png "xGednI7[1]")
220KB, 400x400px
Don't no one steal my idea, but I'm thinking of
Anonymous
2017-03-12 11:36:51
Post No. 9229769
[Report]
[View this topic]
creating like a small electronic vibrating thing-a-ma-jig placed on your forehead that reminds you to blink your eyes every one in a while while reading or browsing the web.
It'll help prevent eye strain and pain
Whatddya think?
9 Posts / 3 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9229769
Weird as fuck, homie.
>>
File: 1489299734578[2].jpg (153KB, 375x500px) Image search:
[Google]
![1489299734578[2].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/MxjrRIT.jpg "1489299734578[2]")
153KB, 375x500px
>>9229980
Have fun having eye strain then uncool kid hahahahahahahahahaahahah
>>
>>9229769
I've seen normies with apps that do exactly that on their screens
I've since taken up regular eyeball-shifting pauses
File: NO_FILE_GIVEN (0B, 0x0pxpx)
0B, 0x0pxpx
Why are the philosophers of our time so shitty?
14 Posts / 3 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9229727
Because they don't hate women and minorities and globalism and 'human rights'
>>
Shit times call for shit people. Case in point: you.
>>
>>9229727
Foucault is not of our time.
We live in an era that is incredibly fragmented and in a state of disarray, for better or worse is undeterminable.
It is basically impossible for a philosopher to construct a coherent, linear philosophy, like those of the past.
File: 1489336600051.jpg (19KB, 420x354px) Image search:
[Google]
19KB, 420x354px
>implying kafkaesque didn't come before kafka
7 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
OP 'knows'
>>
>>9229629
Bartleby the Scrievner is very Kafkaesque
>>
>>9229792
no, it's too classical. there is always something grotesque in Kafka's works that is lacking in Bartleby
Anonymous
political essays / journalism 2017-03-12 10:14:19 Post No.9229457
[Report] Image search: [Google]
political essays / journalism 2017-03-12 10:14:19 Post No.9229457
[Report] Image search: [Google]
File: je8WcLk.jpg (610KB, 1171x677px) Image search:
[Google]
610KB, 1171x677px
political essays / journalism
Anonymous
2017-03-12 10:14:19
Post No. 9229457
[Report]
[View this topic]
Is there any good long form political journalism these days? I'm interested in reading nuanced politics, not just left-right dick swinging.
9 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
File: download.jpg (9KB, 256x192px) Image search:
[Google]
9KB, 256x192px
Not anymore.
>>
>>9229475
That's what I'm afraid of. When I look around I don't see much. I just want thoughtful pieces about contemporary (preferably American) politics. Opinion is fine, as long as facts are presented.
>>
Read David Frum's How to Build an Autocracy in the Atlantic
File: 261266747937142257.jpg (170KB, 1440x1080px) Image search:
[Google]
170KB, 1440x1080px
>want to write
>overwhelmed by emotional jolts to the point I can't even utter a sentence
Anyone else? I feel like most of my life will be wasted being in awe and unable to ever properly translate it all into words, and as such make it relevant to others as well.
4 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
Just speak in tongues. Lots of well-recognized authors wrote basically gibberish.
>>
File: george saunders procras.png (577KB, 256x1234px) Image search:
[Google]
577KB, 256x1234px
Good advice from George Saunders in this weekend's WSJ Magazine
>pic
>>
sounds like you're too inspired, OP. an enviable problem.
just start writing. if you're worried about it not being perfect, remember that "the perfect is the enemy of the good" and that the very greatest writers produced lots of crap, and it was only their freedom to write crap that even allowed them the freedom to write masterworks. meanwhile the mediocre are always at their best.
File: tumblr_nswpvaZ7T21ut727bo1_1280.jpg (79KB, 628x628px) Image search:
[Google]
79KB, 628x628px
I need your help, /lit/. I have the same recurring problem of my "original" story ideas turning out to already exist. This is my idea for a short play.
>fairy tale format
>dude likes a princess
>she sends him on a quest or something idk
>in the end, he has to make some kind of sacrifice to be with her, probably resulting in a facial disfigurement of missing limb
>the princess is shallow and is disgusted by him
It seems like something I've read before, probably a Brothers Grimm tale. Anyone see this before?
13 Posts / 4 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9229430
'originality' is a meme.
Imitation produces high art. See: The Greeks, Shakespeare, etc. Perfect the existing forms and ideas, and afterwards add your personal flourish.
Art isn't about starting from scratch, it's about working with the pre-existing foundation.
>>
>>9229442
>two examples only
>etc
>>
>>9229461
those are some pretty big examples. reminder that Hamlet, King Lear, etc, were all adaptations of earlier stories.
File: 1489310820935.jpg (30KB, 1006x394px) Image search:
[Google]
30KB, 1006x394px
Explain dialectics using this template.
4 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
thesis: heads
antithesis: tails
synthesis: coin
>>
>>9229427
capitalism>class struggle>socialism
File: jjr-900x598.jpg (73KB, 900x598px) Image search:
[Google]
73KB, 900x598px
So the debate here is that
>man is evil and violent, and we need government to keep us from killing each other in the state of nature
vs
>man is pure and peaceful in nature, but the state corrupts and oppresses us
Now what has natural selection taught us? That man will do anything it takes to survive and reproduce. That makes us neither evil nor pure, we are simply as violent as we need to be (to survive), and peaceful as we can afford (to enjoy life).
So it seems to me that all we need is a system that allows us to feed and live safely, but no more. We can take care of ourselves from there, any additional restriction on the way we live (state intervention, regulation, laws prohibiting actions which don't affect a third party) are oppressive and harmful.
12 Posts / 2 Images
View this topic
>>
>>9229419
No, the debate has moved past the pre-Industrial stage, the world is too populated and complex to call for the extreme gutting of its hegemonic powers, it's just not feasible.
The debate isn't ideological anymore
>>
>>9229452
This
People r complex brah
>>
how does this even connect to reality anymore
File: IMG_4304.jpg (68KB, 580x414px) Image search:
[Google]
68KB, 580x414px
ITT: Talentless hacks
Fuck Gabo
3 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
Fuck Euripides.
>>
>>9229319
kys you faggot!
File: 165017.jpg (27KB, 217x320px) Image search:
[Google]
27KB, 217x320px
Is the translation worth reading?
5 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
Was Voyage to the End of the Night worth reading?
>>
It's like reading Finnegans Wake translated. It won't work.
>>
>>9229288
Is the original worth reading?
>Oedipa settled back, to await the crying of lot 49.
What a fucking hack.
3 Posts / 1 Images
View this topic
>>
if the ending pissed you off you just fell for the joke hook line and sinker
>>
>That blessed man was Albert Qu'ran - or Al, as he was known among his friends
dropped