Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 1712. page

>>9183502
I was going to say no, of course not, but actually now that I think about it a bit, you have me convinced, where do I sign up?

>>9183502
So no one ever told this guy his name was not Oughta Whine-ninger?

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>i was wrong

what about some bad books?

dude lsd lmao

>>9183466
just smoke like 50 bongs op, trust me my mate damo smoked like 7 grams of the dankest cali kush in one night through his 4 foot bong. he said he made contact with aliens as well as god

i can't remember the last physical book i actually read till the last page. it was probably some non-fiction too

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- All my books I've read are dog-eared. This is because if I'm reading and only have time to reach the end of the paragraph, dog-earing to the last line I just read keeps me reminded of my exact progress. I know this upsets people here so here's confession no. 1.

- I still enjoy YA. I know it's nowhere to the standard of my favourite classics like Don Quixote or Moby Dick but it's enjoyable fluff when I want to read but not something that will require more attention than muh dark materials trilogy.

- I want to create a Youtube review channel focusing on film and literature without the social awkwardness and memes of typical "booktubers" but I know nobody will watch it and I'll never make that YouTube money.

- Sometimes I'll buy a book based solely on its cover if I know it's considered a classic. If I've not heard of the author/title then it's risky but a brief look at the blurb and it's cover can sell it to me. I tend to find some pretty interesting work with this but I know it's also being pretty careless with my money too.

- I'm the nigga who buys a stack of books from Waterstones because I want them pristine and new, then it takes 10 - 15 minutes to scan/pay for every book I'm carrying.

- Always felt a temptation to steal short books from shops but never have done, even though my naivity doubts I would get into much trouble over stealing a small collection of Basho haikus.

>>9183445
I unironically enjoy Jack Kerouac.

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

That he's gonna catch himself some serf girls

>>9183438
russians dont surf much...

Why don't you read some literature rather than relying on 4chan for an education.

>>9183413
By pointing out my hypocrisy, you have answered my question.

>>9183401
What do you mean exactly? For example, full rationalism isn't possible if you read the literature on neuroscience and psychology
Or do you mean it only in the sense of a scientific mindset? That doesn't free us from cognitive biases

Also it seems rationalism can come at a cost. It requires rigid minds, from what've read but don't count me on it, which means lesser creativity.

There is evidence, some by Baren-Cohen, that autistic people are more rational and logical, very good at figuring out mechanistic stuff, but bad in other areas.

>>9183371
She clearly did the Kenosha Kid

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>>9183632

the gass pipe

Fake. Either cite your source or gtfo

>>9183360
I did cite it. It's page 19 of Culture and Value.

literally sneaky rats

>>9183305

>Faulkner. (seriously, fight me faggots)
>Saul Williams
> Eugene O'Neil (aka the GOAT American playwright)

You, anon?

>>9183305
Dostoevsky
Eliot
Shakespeare

>>9183339
Faulkner is great. Does /lit/ dislike him or something? Sounds like a bad meme.

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Once again confirming that nothing good has ever come from reading translations.

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The sword, often mightier than the pen

It's 7AM and I'm drinking beers naked in bed

OP is my girlfriend. She told me she'd post this thread. Good thread, sweetie!

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>>9183145
Additionally, who is the prophet of /lit/? Stirner? Hegel? Kneechee? Girard? Debord? Surely not Kant.

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>>9183151
OP here, i am not your sweetie. anon that is a pretty sweet life tho. having drank many beers and banged quite a few human females, i can tell you i don't miss being chained to a normie. sex was nice though. /lit/ is better.

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

Never mind, I'm an ADHD retard I didn't see the wiki. It seems I can't delete the thread though so might as well turn it into an horror general.

>>9183139
Thanks.

Check out M.R. James' short ghost stories.

You have to hunt to find which Lovecraft stories really do it for you. If you liked The Coloreds out of Space, try The Haunter in the Dark.

A hungry, hungry caterpillar who ate too much McDonald's and got fat. Halfway through the novel, there is a shift in realization that it's actually a book about a large mining truck, who is thirsty for diesel.

What age?

what age are we talking about?

assuming aged 2-6

for the LOVE OF GOD don't make it about some ((hidden)) morals like "always share", "that's what happens if you don't eat your veggies", "clean up your room".
make it for pure entertainment.

have high quality illustrations (from an actual artist, not those shitty and cheap computer generated pics).

don't play into hard gender roles or parents these days won't buy it anymore. also exclude religion for that reason.

make the protagonists relatable for KIDS. make them have imperfect behaviour. kids find that hillarious and it's soothing for the parents to know that it's not only their kid behaving that way.

make appropriate pic/text ratios.
don't make it one of those "everybody lves each other and is always nice to each other and we never argue and always obey" abominations

Also, I have to study poetry because it's required subject in my uni and im a science major. I have no idea what is it or where to start.

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>>9182974
>>9183044

> Read poems until you find something you like
> Look up that poet/poem online (somewhere like https://www.poetryfoundation.org/)
> Find similar poets/poems
> Repeat ad naseum

The most important thing to remember is you're allowed to hate as much poetry as you want. It's a very broad category of literature so you're not going to like everything but there is almost certainly some patrician level shit that you will enjoy. You just need to find it.

Pic related is an amazing resource of poems

http://philo.swu.bg/biblioteka/Ferguson,%20Salter%20&%20Stallworthy,%20The%20Norton%20Anthology%20of%20Poetry.64.pdf

>>9183106
Thank you good anon, is there any book like an introduction to poetry

>>9182889
>no russians
and so it was, OP

the failure,

>>9182901
you can't have it all

give me enough ideas and i'll make a second one

thank you

am I supposed to draw the line of my personality inside that scheme according to my relationship wih /lit/ memes?

>>9182815
> Why should someone read philosophy?

You shouldn't.

>Why should someone read philosophy?
for the maymays.
>Where would one really begin with philosophy?
Start with the Greeks. Plato and Aristotle are pretty memeful, yea.
>How would you decide where to go next?
Procede with the Romans.
>Do you need to agree with what the philosophers say to appreciate/understand their work?
this question is so stupid that even you can self-criticize it, can't you.
>I hear it's a major giggle, lads.
yea it's all fun and giggles, friendo.

>>9182815
>Why should someone read philosophy?
To live better.