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do a lit degree?

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>>9169512
What do you love to do, anon? Is it something that is good or helpful for other people in a deep way, that makes you feel more like yourself, like your life has a positive trajectory or horizon?

Is something preventing you from doing it?

What?

What could you do that would move you closer to that thing that you love to do?

>>9169512
>if I follow my own way then people will abuse me
If you believe, as you have said, that "your own way" consists in being abused, then that is exactly what will happen.

Your own way is only your own. If you fall into the trap of allowing yourself (YOU must ALLOW it to happen!) to be ordered, or advertised, or taught, you are still on your own way, you've just put a sleeping mask over your eyes as you walk down the street.

You're afraid of your weakness. This is your weakness! Once you own it, and realize it, it ceases to be a weakness and becomes a mere quality.

>>9169480
Jameson's work "Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism," is really a foundational text, even if you don't buy his marxist bs.

It's also probably the most annoying work I've ever had to read, the guy really knows how to dance around his points.

But yeah pretty much sums up Postmodernism bretty gud

>>9169488
reported

>>9169475
So it's a good start, is what you're saying. People here have been recommending I start with his short stories but I kinda want to start with a novel, albeit a shorter one.

>>9169475
i'd like to read his smuggler's bible, but i'm broke atm

>>9169838
I'm not sure because it's the first one I've read. but anyone saying he isn't worth reading is wrong. that I can say for sure. I felt the same way I felt after reading the recognitions, "damn this guy is really good at writing and is very smart".

I know a few. Tell me what you would want to read about.
I would recommend Scott Barry Kaufman, Steven Pinker and Daniel Kahneman.

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>not reading Maps of Meaning

>>9168938
>and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Maps of Meaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.
How embarrassing

I don't remember when I was seven years old, sorry

My dtbqhwyfsmdh

>>9168855
I don't

>>9168838
ready player one

Sure, there's an entire branch of media studies devoted to video game scholarship

If you can stand being laughed at in private, ask your librarian about it

>>9168838
The Art of Game Design by Jesse Shell

you learn languages at a university, you dumkopf

>>9168831
Anyone here achieved what?

Being trilingual? That's high school shit m8

>>9168831
Well the main trouble with translations is encountered when you read something translated from a rare language. I wonder if the explanation is as following : there's less translators, so there's less *good* translators. Could it be as simple ?
I mean if you read english translations from french or german or spanish, quite often you'll find very good ones. If you're looking for a good translation from finnish or something, it may be harder.
Conclusion - sadly enough I'm not too sure if it's so useful to know the most widely used languages.

I have the PDF.

>>9168649
this post made me laugh

>>9168570
I like infinite meme because of the way it presents itself as if it is not a comedy, but it is. I also only have an iq of 83 and my doctors give me medicine for my seizures and autism.

>>9168570
The harder it tries to funny, the less it funnies. That's why Infinite Jest tops keks.

>>9168570
Tragedies that fail to be tragic tend to be really funny desu

>>9168379
> stomach cancer
> implying the unfathomable chaos abomination within Lovecraft's bowels can be reduced to a scientific label

>>9168423
>The groaning sounds my stomach made were like an unspeakable daemon chant

i would argue that raskolnikov fails to place his faith outside himself and that him not reading the bible is evidence of that. raskolinokov is not redeemed even if it's made to look that way

i would argue that but i don't really care enough to argue about dostoevsky and i haven't read crime and punishment in like 6 years

The great change happened when Raskolnikov admitted his sin.

As Dostoevsky himself writes, coming to terms with other people and finding faith afterwards is another story.

The book has an assumption of inherent Christian morality and that's why I couldn't agree with its message

>>9167875
>snow queen
please don't tell me this is another frozen/narnia ripoff. Hans Christian Anderson was a mistake

>>9167875
YEAH ITS GREAT!!!
Better than any of this 'Joyce' and 'Cervantes' bullshit!!

>>9167875
No, but it puts me in mind of Mark Helprin-- any similarity?

>>9167752
don't worry
I'll fix everything with my work

>>9167752
Gen X created Millennials.

That's enough reason to throw them all in gas chambers.