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Is there anything more pathetic than pop philosophy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPeVVGCmwx0
Is the curriculum based completely on de bottom's feelings of inadequacy and impotency?

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Who are you trying to impress by reading your esoteric tomes?

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Which university has the most /lit/ motto?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_university_mottos

For me it's got to be Harvard, simple yet striking and memorable.

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This is the worst fantasy author I've ever seen. What are your thoughts /lit/?

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>all
>although
>already
>called
>altogether
These words are used by amateurs of pernicious stupidity. "All the king's horses" is every horse you simpleton and these words nix the meaning of a simile or metaphor.
Use these words as you use an adverb or participles -with care- and use "of" ,"at", "with", " in", " or", "by" instead.

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best literature - any school of thought is fair game - for coming to terms with loneliness as an ineluctable aspect of the human condition?

i've decided that moping over bitches won't do shit and that forming relationships needs to come from a place of security and not feelings of isolation. help me out /lit/brahs.

i've read some basic stuff like aurelius seneca and musashi. anything along these lines too?

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recent purchases. dollar bin edition.

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I thoroughly enjoyed the silmarillion and think its better than iliad/ odyssey/ metamorphosis/ aenead.

Question is a-am I pleb /lit/?

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I want to one day write cool fantasy novelsbut every single time I think of a story to write it just feels horribly cringy edgy anime shit that I just stop writing. How do I overcome this? It seems like learning how to draw is forgivable and even mediocre drawings are well liked on the internet unless it's pregnant porn of Sonic characters on deviantart. With learning to write it's different where any novice level creative writing is always seen to be cringy and "fanfic tier" whether it's an actual fanfic or not. My perception is probably warped from seeing so many people on 4chins post "look at this cringy fanfic I found" but it discourages me from writing more in fear of anything I write becoming memeworthy.

So what do you do? Do I continue writing what I feel is just shitty cringe inducing anime shit until it isn't? If Shakespear were born today would he start out by writing an Overwatch smut or Woody Got Wood? What were you guys writing on your own at first before you got better? I feel like this is a specific question because I don't necessarily mean "how do I git gud" but "how do I stop being cringy"

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>writing a book about ecology
>even le kaczynski mode on
>book is printed
>thus trees are cut
>author is a hypocrite

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Thoughts?

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http://www.eldritchpress.org/nh/hahm.html

>tfw you'll never love a writer the way Melville loves Hawthorne

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Ultimate tool for rewriting?

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>use 'and but so' to start a sentence in my essay
>teacher crosses out the 'and' + 'but'

can i sue?

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I have to learn a foreign language for a general education requirement at my university, and was curious which would be best to supplement my reading.

I'm considering Russian because I really enjoy their literature but I've already gone through a lot of the famous stuff and have no idea how much I'm really missing having read translations.

What do you guys think?
Thanks for the help