Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 1970. page

>>9037211
People here are gonna recommend you self-help shit like "Power." Not that it's a bad recommendation, but it's only a small part of the process. That's the attitude, but what you want is the method, and for that what you want to read is literature on deception. Deception IS manipulation (plus persuasion, of course), for an effective method is all about crafting narratives.

And for that, you'll want to read the .pdf and works listed here:

https://thirdcops.wordpress.com/tag/deception/

tl;dr learn from Freud, Edward Bernays, academic psychology, intelligence agencies, and governments. That self-help shit is PUA-tier.

>>9037211
I haven't read this in a long time, I don't remember the Prince giving any instruction on how to specifically manipulate

>>9037228
thank you anon

>>9037182
Obviously. The real question is if there's any value to reading the text with this understanding in mind.

t. Nabokov

>>9037182
who knows

or should I say

who cares

>>9037212
>>9037230

Barthes pls go

>>9037078
:^)

>>9037078

Sleep deprivation is pretty much a subject I'm interested in. I find I'm more alert a day after I've had sleep and can focus better but if I go on any longer 2-3 days then I find my movements and speech getting sluggish. As much as I hate contemporary culture for making it cool to marathon TV shows and movies, has anyone just stayed up for a day or two doing nothing but reading?

After 20-24 hours of being awake I'm not capable of doing much of anything, much less try to create something.

No. Source: i spent all day reading this board.

>>9037026
Depends on what you are reading

>>9037044
Does engaging in /lit/ threads and discussions make one more of an intellect than someone who doesn't ?

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No.

>>9037025
come on my nigga, its a story about a nigga thats killing a sandnigger, how could something get better than that? nigga killed a sandnigger, what do you want more nigga? bitch ass nigga

Caligula is better

>>9036991
Verne and Dickens are complete and utter trash. They are the superhero movies of their time, 0 substance, simple ideas yet effective enough to engage children and manchildren alike and poorly executed plots.

>>9037073
/thread

if you're old enough to have found 4chan you've already outgrown Jules Verne

>>9036991
Good exposition of the world at the time, I had to do a lot of googling. There's nothing much beyond it, but it's good at what it does.

>>9036972
He wouldn't

>>9036972
Acts 17:26
Daniel 2:21
Judges 2:16-19

for a literary perspective, see Ditie de Jehanne d'Arc par Christine de Pisan

>>9036972
Just because Joan said God was with her doesn't mean he actually was

>>9036958
>Who are some amazing authors who never sucked everyone's dick in school and went to a state uni?
there is none, nobody relevant anyway

being born into privleged background doesn't only entail wealth, it inlcludes your childhood experiences and education.

If you didn't growp up with /lit/ parents encouraging you to read, I would give up. Honestly I feel like 60% of /lit/ is the lower-middle class waters who attended shitty state schools, played vidya until they were 18, and then suddently broke into literature when they realised they were wasting their life. But the years of drudgery and bad habbits have already taken their toll. 4chan is where failures come to die. I seriously belive this.

>>9036994
agreed. anyone who disagrees and says "but.. but... -insert random author here- started reading late!!!" it's called an exception, idiot, the one that you will not be

>>9036958
Machado de Assis is one of the most important brazilian writers of all time and he never went to university and barely studied, he did it all himself.
Also, he was the son of a washerwoman and hsi father was a painter of walls and son of freed slaves.
(This is 19th century)
>inb4 no one knows about him
Well if you are a uncultured twat you won't know, if its to meme:
>Machado de Assis was post-modern before it was cool.
Well, he did had many characteristics of what came to be the modern and post-modern literature.

The LV chapter of his most important novel:

"O velho diálogo de Adão e Eva The old dialogue of Adam and Eve

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>>9036947
read the sticky

>>9036973
No.

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>>9036947

The savage detectives

>>9036859
>The savage detectives
He said good, not pretentious and of uneven quality.

>>9036852
Aura

>>9036843
Took a shit

>>9036843
Plagiarized spark notes and turned the essay in

voted for trump

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I always thought Gaddy was a Baddy

>>9036810
Heidegger looked like the guy at the local fruit stand bagging your cantaloupe.

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This guy

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>>9036712
I am certain that he will, along with this guy.

>>9036712
We're not even 20 years into the 21st century, cuck

oh, i don't know, why don't you petition Hiroyuki for a philosophy board so you can stop silting up /lit/ with your puerile freshman musings? fucking philosophags. GTFO and take Zizek with you. he smells like rancid goat cheese.

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>>9036578
>he fell for the self-improvement meme

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>>9036611
Just because you're unable to improve yourself doesn't mean others are too

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>>9037738
>doesn't even realize he's falling for the self-improvement meme

>>9036516
if you come over to my apt you can have my gf's copy for free.

>>9036518
>my gf
i don't buy it

>>9036519
fine my sister.