He's gonna get it right with his fourth book?
>>9218051
What a beefcake.
>>9218051
probably. hes been quiet and spending time with his parents. no crazy gfs like megan
Is there that much money to be made from spamming /lit/?
ITT: Post literature that you'd make your child read and then let others predict the kind of person your child would grow up to be.
I'd make my children read the Bible and then The God Delusion.
>>9218049
A fucking faggot. The apple won't fall far from the tree.
A bunch of sagas.
>making your child waste time reading books
>not uploading all the info through a dedicated data port
peak plebeianism
>>9218049
Probably repressed homosexuals who only gain the courage to come out of the closet after you're dead, probably from driving drunk or suicide.
i'm fairly new to lovecraftian horror. What lovecraft book to you recommend a new reader of this kind of genre?
>>9218012
Shadow over Innsmouth
Dreams in the Witch House
Herbert West: Reanimator
Cats of Ulthar
Rats in the Walls
Pretty much any anthology might suffice. Lovecraft never published a book per se, it was all published in a few magazines or journals and only collected in book form after he'd died.
Are there any other Calvinists on /lit/? What are your favorite Calvinist texts? To anyone interested in Calvinism, feel free to ask questions about it.
>the even more autistic protestantism
No, thanks.
>>9217934
Just rented a book out on Calvin.
Haven't started it but really Calvinism is just a Protestant faith but with predestination? Seems in line with my actual beliefs.
Can you tell me if they have to do autistic rituals too?
>>9217934
>Questions
Ok.
What are the main characteristics of Calvinism?
Does anyone here have a degree in English or English literature and has made a career out of it?
>>9217931
> made a career out of it
>career out of it
>>9217931
Actually yes, and I am using it to write a book aboutstudent loan debt
What are some good historic novels?
Looking for a present for my grandma and she loves historic novels.
The Long Ships
Taiko
Musashi
Pillars Of The Earth
Baudolino
Master & Commander
The Once And Future King
Is French philosophy just about penises and Other.png?
Try to disprove me. Pro-tip: don't talk about the phallus plz
destroying the west is pretty gay
>>9217840
I made an infochart on the "insidious Gaul" but I lost it. First dozen American presidents had ties to France. Shut it down, the Anglais know!
>>9217840
>as such is anti-white and anti-male
>all philosophers referenced are white and male
sorry, but social justice is a bastardisation of post-structuralism and has more to do with feminist theory and identity politics than the esoteric philosophies of white men. Even Foucault, who is frequently championed as philosopher-king of the queers, would've been horrified by the pronoun-obsessed and self-flagellating condition of western academia today. there is certainly an overlap between these strands of thought, but to clump them together is to overlook the important point that the left is literally tearing itself apart right now. What was once a "united front" has descended into a game of oppression top-trumps.
What can you do with a first class degree in English Literature?
read literature
write
>>9217817
start an indie folk band
>>9217838
big if true
just read the introduction to The Karamazov Brothers and it spoiledfather's murder
WHY
>>9217741
>caring about spoilers
bruh, come on
Introductions are, as weird as it seems, are not meant to be read your first time through. The optimal time to read them is before your second read-through.
You'd think you'd figure out this when you read the Iliad or the Greek tragedians...
Plus, that information hardly ruins brothers K. Actually, that might make your first reading more enriching.
>>9217741
>reading any additional material before reading the book
>ever
YOU FUCKED UP
Stop writing allegories
I say! Young Hitler was quite dashing.
>>9217731
I can't, op.
I've tried everything, but even my most base, vulgar smutfics end up being a clever allegory alluding to the systemic oppression of the lower classes.
Somebody help me.
>>9217785
>clever allegory alluding to the systemic oppression of the lower classes.
Stop reading Marx and it should solve itself.
Why do we never talk about him? He raped Simone de Beauvoir for god's sake.
>[Koestler] began his education in the twilight of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, at an experimental kindergarten in Budapest. His mother was briefly a patient of Sigmund Freud's. In interwar Vienna he wound up as the personal secretary of Vladimir Jabotinsky, one of the early leaders of the Zionist movement. Travelling in Soviet Turkmenistan as a young and ardent Communist, he ran into Langston Hughes. Fighting in the Spanish Civil War, he met W. H. Auden at a "crazy party" in Valencia before winding up in one of Franco's prisons. In Weimar Berlin he fell into the circle of the Comintern agent Willi Münzenberg, through whom he met the leading German Communists [and fellow-travellers] of the era, including Johannes Becher, Hanns Eisler and Bertolt Brecht. Afraid of being caught by the Gestapo while fleeing France, he borrowed suicide pills from Walter Benjamin. He took them several weeks later when it seemed he would be unable to get out of Lisbon, but he did not die. Along the way he had lunch with Thomas Mann, got drunk with Dylan Thomas, made friends with George Orwell, flirted with Mary McCarthy and lived in Cyril Connolly's London flat. In 1940 Koestler was released from a French detention camp, partly thanks to the intervention of Harold Nicolson and Noël Coward. In the 1950s he helped to found the Congress for Cultural Freedom, together with Melvin Lasky and Sidney Hook. In the 1960s he took LSD with Timothy Leary. In the 1970s he was still giving lectures that impressed, among others, the young Salman Rushdie.
I fucking love Koestler. All of his shit. Act of Creation is responsible for half of what I'm doing with my life.
>Koestler was known to be a sexual bully; De Beauvoir described him as liking rough sex. But in a 1998 biography, David Cesarani added fuel to the fire by alleging that in the 1940s Koestler had raped Jill Craigie, wife of the Labour politician Michael Foot. Although some doubts remain about the allegation, the general consensus is that even if it wasn't true, it wouldn't have been entirely out of character.
I like him even more now.
I've only read Darkness at Noon, it was ok.
degenerate, raping jew
>mfw trying to answer this question
Where do we draw the lines between intelligence, sentience, and awareness? And more importantly who has this authority? What is the ethical hierarchy between each each?
Sentience is a feature of someone who realizes that this question belongs on /his/ and not on /lit/. Now sod off, you inanimate fucking object.
>>9217694
>Sentience
Does it have a CNS? Then it can perceive and feel things, yes. Nearly all life on earth, even giant tube worms, have a head-body-tail structure and a nervous system that takes input from the environment.
We can define it by saying what it ISNT.
Is rock sentient? No? Well there you go.
what i needa know before reading in search of lost time
>>9217665
French
>>9217665
>Psssst....ayo. u got some crack nigga?
Two Birds and Rain
Two birds were dancing.
One in the sky, one on the ground.
Then raindrops started falling.
And there were no bird in the sky,
nor the ground.
Ground was wet and the plants grew.
Then final raindrops ended.
And birds returned,
to a garden called home.
How can i improve this poem i wrote?
笔哟哎木批
Stop writing like an autist. Poetry is about placing right words in the right places, for starters use less garbage words like 'then' or 'on'. Use iambs to keep the rhythm going, lines like
>And there were no bird in the sky
have no pulse, it's just a bunch of connecting words.
Post more anime pictures.
Genuine question, no troll no bait: Isn't starting from book of Genesis and proceeding to read more key texts in the Old Testament a better introduction to lit than the Greeks? The western canon seems to refer a lot more to the biblical stories than to the Greek stuff
>>9217545
im gay
>>9217545
not as catchy