Archived threads in /lit/ - Literature - 244. page

>implying anyone on /lit/ would even pass the asylum demon

>>9942100
>self identity
Explain further.
If you want my honest opinion, people simply tend towards the easier route when given options. It's difficult to fight the instinct to consume for oneself.

Human Nature is a social construct. An artifact of the Capital/Market ideology.

>>9942100
>human nature

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

they don't exist

best thing to do is find a few people, preferably mentors, that you love talking to about anything under the sun

>>9942107
Nah faggot, I'm the senpai here I don't need any new teacher

I want some place to build a following, I can post stupid shit and artwork on my social media, but I have no place to post the bullshit I write and nobody around me has interest in literature

>>9942081
Seconding this, no idea how am I supposed to build an audience and people on whattpad are fanfic-tier retards

Go read Grillet. Grillet is fun, Grillet is love.

>>9942075
Read 12 right wing books and learn the truth about women, jews, and blacks and superiority of capitalism

>thinking it's important to read meme nonfiction like Origin of Species and Wealth of Nations
To get a basic understanding of the subjects, it's better to just read modern textbooks. They cover all the important discoveries of these famous texts minus the bits that have been debunked plus stuff that wasn't known 200 years ago. The only book like this that's actually worth reading is Euclid because it's fun to work through the proofs yourself with a compass and straight edge.

>>9942067
>Psycho
>Pastoral
>Tragedy
These were decent.

>>9942072
its so dull, same goes for works in other mediums

>>9941966
>Joseph Brodsky
i dont know him but he looks grumpy, so i like him.

WLC.

Dawkins and Hitchens always appeared as being atheist out of spite for something.
Harris is just arrogant, I've never seen him admit to being wrong.
Dennett is cool.
Bald Hitchens was also swell.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XAAN1aGwME

>>9941926
Maybe by forming your own opinions rather than expecting others to do so for you?
People pay them to have ideas for everyone else. They're literally idea guys. You can ignore them, if you want, but that requires you come up with your own ideas, which is hard.

>>9941843
There is something very unsettling about that picture

>>9941722
Post-modernism is just fanaticism and submission to sublimity. It is no more rebellious or edgy than any fundamentalist belief.

>>9941722
Postmodernism is the last drop of sperm dripping from your dad's dick after you gave him a good swallow-wahooo. Those tiny little swimmers whose destination is predetermined are released into the abyss thinking they will finally fulfill their purpose in life only to be lead astray into the belly of the beast. Raise your flagellae t0 the sky little warriors, YOU SHALL BE MISSED.

>>9941799
Sorry for having your dad molest you

>>9941706
Start with the presocratics, or just jump into Plato. If you start with Plato, start with Euthyphro, then, Apology, then Crito, then Meno then Phaedo, then Republic, then Symposium, then Phaedrus. If you want you can keep reading Plato or you can jump into Aristotle (Who's a bit dry, but still excellent).

>>9941706
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y8_RRaZW5X3xwztjZ4p0XeRplqebYwpmuNNpaN_TkgM/mobilebasic?pli=1

Start where ever you want and with whatever interests you. No biologist starts biology reading Aristotle and fitness doesn't have to begin with jogging before you can do running. Interest first. Linearity is bullshit. If you find something that inspires you to go to the presocratics, you'll do it.

Definitely don't listen to anyone here, myself included. We're illiterate. If we weren't, we'd be reading philosophy instead of being on the internet.

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Start with the Neanderthals

In Darkness and Secrecy: The Anthropology of Assault Sorcery and Witchcraft in Amazonia

Shamanism: Archaic Techniques of Ecstasy by Mircea Eliade

I'd say Brian Selznick or Meg Wolitzer

Try "shadow of the wind" by zafon.

Or browse through the teen section in your local library and find the most pretentious-looking book cover.

Will probably read first book one day.
That's what I think of it.

>>9941627
It's called The Broken Empire Trilogy, you mong. And it's Thorns, not Thornes, anyway.

I found it very difficult to get into at first because I disliked the angsty god-modding teenage boy trope, and found his love for and descriptions of violence cringey.

Once I shut that part of my brain off, it was a moderately enjoyable romp. Nothing groundbreaking, but passable nonetheless.

I will completely forget everything about it within the next 5 years, I'm already hazy on most of it and I only read it about a year or two ago.

get back into your containment general stupid newfuck

HEY THERE FUCKFACE

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I don't know who he is but he has /new age and weird fiction/ taste in /lit/ which is pretty cool

Colin Wilson alone gets him a pass

>>9941651
Singer from British post-punk band The Fall

There's always candide
Journey to the end of the night is kind of like a twisted picaresque

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The OG

Check out Cervantes' Rinconete y Cortadillo too.

Alexander Boldizar's The Ugly is pretty good