13.
13 1/2.
I think it ruined my life because from that point on I could no longer trust my parents or my teachers. Socrates truly does corrupt the youth. Thoughts?
>>9150904
Nope.
Don't worry. Once you turn 15 it will pass.
>>9150904
>I think it ruined my life because from that point on I could no longer trust my parents or my teachers. Socrates truly does corrupt the youth.
Did you notice the way most authors refer to "women", in that anonymously collective way? Like talking about their relationships and personal lives. "The women" are always anonymous and non-important compared to the person talking about them, their entire beings collapsed to a single, catchall word. What I mean is that "Women" is usually used as an euphemism for a series of sexual relations with many different females over some period of time, rather than just that, a number of females larger than one. Like when Bukowski puts in as the title of his book, it's obvious to the reader that what is meant by it is the whole process of interaction between men and women, the "dating sphere", etc. A very utilitarian way of describing people, makes it seem like they're just objects to be used or something. You know what I mean?
I guess the inverse is also true, but it's nowhere near as widely used, probably because women don't talk about men as openly as men do about them. And to be honest I don't really know how to describe this clearly because the idea I have of it is rudimentary still, more like a feeling or something.
>>9150874
>probably because women don't talk about men as openly as men do about them.
Yeah, right.
>>9150874
That book is the only book with a german title I actually like more than the original, which I thought was impossible, because german's can't title things for shit.
"Lovelives of Hyenas" it's called.
>>9150884
Well, at least not in books.because there aren't that many women authors
What does /lit/ think about this college article that draws comparisons between Drake and Ezra Pound?
http://epigram.org.uk/music/2017/02/drake-modern-day-ezra-pound
It really makes you think... eh?
>>9150833
Makes me question whether I want to go on living/10
>>9151353
kind of a stupid reason to kill yourself desu
if you want a good reason to kill yourself go visit a retirement home. life sure is terrible.
>>9150833
The other day I saw something similar with Kendric lamar and joyce.
well idk.
Question: What the FUCK are you doing not learning another language?
Also: What are your thoughts on the French language? Should I have chosen a different one to learn? Possibly Italian?
>>9150539
why have you posted this in English?
I want to learn Cantonese because I would like to live in Hong Kong after I finish uni.
But i suck at languages and Cantonese is hard as balls, so I don't know if its a realistic goal or not.
Joke's on you, it took me six weeks to learn French.
Hello, /lit/
Could you recommend some essays on Accelerationism for someone fresh to the subject?
Accelerating phenomenological-mind-ache-agonisti-complex; purpose of the marxist variational theory - D.B Ward
>>9150457
>Accelerating phenomenological-mind-ache-agonisti-complex; purpose of the marxist variational theory - D.B Ward
Some results may have been removed under data protection law in Europe.
accelerando, by charles stross
come for the severed cat heads, and stay for the protagonist tied up with a buttplug shoved in his ass by his dom girlfriend in the first ten pages.
Daily reminder that Atlantis was real.
Who is Atlantis?
>>9150595
Atlantis Toole, Henry Lee Lucas's best friendo
>>9150345
Did anyone else play that Indiana Jones game? Was it, dare I say.. /lit? ;-P
Hegel keeps using words like 'form' and 'substance' and 'Notion' but I don't know what he means by this.
It seems like the way germanics express philosophical ideas is to just enshrine them in these philosophically immense compound buzzphrases rather than do the whole aristotelean thing I'm used to.
Can somebody explain the meaning of these in terms of scholasticism or something?
>>9150310
pretty sure you just explained the meaning of those terms in your previous sentence.
t. anon who read your post
http://dbanach.com/archive/mickelsen/[email protected]
>>9150310
Learn them in German.
For me, it's Ghérasim Luca.
For me, it's Carl Schmitt.
For me, it's myself.
>>9150294
What did Luca write about? Did he write just poetry? He sounds like an interesting figure and many French intellectuals at the time appreciated him and other French-Romanians, but Luca rarely gets mentioned, unlike Tzara, Cioran, Ionesco, etc.
Does it ever go past circlejerking about the free market and capitalism or should I just give up on it now? I'm about 400 pages in.
>inequality is a good thing
HOW
MANY
FUCKING
THREADS
ABOUT
THIS
SHITTY
BOOK
>>9150227
>equality of output is better than equality of opportunity
Just fuck my allocation of scarce resources up family
Did language stultify humankind's ability to experience empathy? I feel like before the invention of language and literature the first humans understood each other better, through the wrinkles of the face, glare in the eyes, softness of a touch, on entirely unthinkable levels. And then came along the Word, and it was too convenient to refuse, and the sublime of physical, real, was forever abandoned.
>>9150189
You are young and not as profound as you think you are. But keep reading all the same.
Total opposite, actually. Language is the only reason we can avoid jumping to each other throats because of misunderstandings it also furthers social relationships and makes own richness a social richness (I'm a spic and can't remember the actual quote of Seaussure so the last point I amde is not just misquoted but also a bad translation).
Basic linguistics.
I don't think so OP.
But I think language on the internet might have that effect.
When you don't have social cues and body language, as on the internet, people tend to have no filter, for better or worse.
This can mean that people are more honest, but it can also mean that they are more treacherous if you ask me.
Let's discuss Russian literature and what makes them such great writers
Haven't read good Russian literature yet and I've gone through the big names.
"Is cold, just like my Orthodox father when I was but little cossack. One day I will be serf, but what is meaning of life? My wife is getting ugly, I no love her anymore. I miss baboushka and her kabanosy every day. Gulag is hard work, I miss warmth of woman. And then I learned life lesson and book ended."
Shitty living conditions, but they're still white, so they can at least articulate their experiences through writing in a profound and meaningful way.
Anyone got tips on improving reading speed and comprehension?
I have a few difficult books I want to go through and they're usually very long winded.
Book pictured is The Gulag Archipelago, an account of those imprisoned in Soviet Russia under Stalin. (This is difficult to read but in a different way, the "wanting to kill yourself" way)
>>9150118
The best way to do it is read every day, and then explain to someone what you just read.
Even if you just start by reading 5 pages a day, you'll gain traction quickly.
If you find yourself losing focus, stop reading and go do something that causes you greater discomfort, like pushups or talking to you mother, and then return to your book ASAP and continue reading. Also, bring a hi-lighter to save your favourite lines and share them here after.
>>9150118
You could try being sent to Gulag.
8 years strogocha))))))
I am a fan of the flowery and perfume aesthetic (Oscar Wilde, Proust), and I am 100% straight, what is wrong with me? Is it misplaced hormones? Or just my French nationality? (not actually French by the way, born in Brazil and raised in Britain)
Anyone like that so I can't feel lonely/ any books for that feel?
>>9149986
That's fine. It's not in fashion at the moment, but it probably will be once again one day.
Just like how some people like the ornateness of baroque music. It isn't in fashion now, but one day it might be again.
Similarly, some people like doilies under their fine porcelain tea cups, others would rather have a minimalist and rugged mug on a grubby pine coffee table, but doilies might come back in one day.
>>9150011
Thanks for understanding.
So, was your grandfather a Nazi?
How do I stop being such a dumbo and effectively understand what I read without spending 30 minutes a page?
>>9149955
Just read more.
Secondary literature.
Stuff like Kant was considered a massive chore the read through by other philosophers at the time it came out already.
>>9149955
You should be spending 10 minutes per page if not more. Philosophical writing is dense and isn't anything like reading a novel.
Just started reading this. I like it so far.
>>9149870
That feely when /lit/ doesn't appreciate Jap lit.
I read Mishima for a while but I found my not-being a Jap pretty jarring at times. Now I really like Kobo Abe and a couple Ryu Murakami novels.
>>9149950
Could you recommend me some Abe and Murakami pieces?
And I live...I was close to y-you, and I loved to catch the Mr. flying in the sun. Catch me drinking of your wine, oh shit, I'm gonna put my dick in you and make the devil blush. All your sisters will be such "j." My sick friend Lil came. Morning comes and goes: blows by the blows and I fuck the girl in the add. How in the offer of July the fucking predator seems my ass out behind the niches, fuck, shit and you will die, you ducking beautiful dumb nugget. Lil, whatever, but I gotta go. Babies, hey, home up sometimes. OK, well, I don't know what to think or say. Hash duck. Shit up for honor and ever; you're so beautiful baby. I like to be you so much. Listen now, I ducked your brother, so don't cry, no don't. The very gods black tirade are pouring down. I cannot best to see your beasts as she lay under the midnight moon with her restless body storing the stew until the magic morning. Arrows and the magic pouring calms her her baby skin under her black dress, her hair thrifts in to get the necklace, which constricts and chokes like ruthless Vince. Listen to Chara, Track 8.