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What does it mean to be wise? Is wisdom inherently valuable? How does one become wiser?

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so /lit/, did you have any specific plans literature-wise for this year? did you/will you achieve it in this last 4 months?

do you have any plans for 2018?

what are the major works you enjoyed the most this year?

will start
>didn't have any specific plans besides learning italian, just wanted to read as much good literature as I could. could've been better but I'm okay with what I've read so far. I believe I will reach fluency in italian by the end of the year.

>next year I want to focus on non-fic, been reading lots of memes that kind of distracted me from philosophy and theology. also want to reach fluency in french and spanish by 2019

>ulysses, moby dick

sorry if it is too much of a blog-post, but I enjoy sharing and reading other people's plans

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philosophy is for failed artists or scientists. no one would choose to be a philosopher over a genius composer or a genius scientist, because it is always a last resort profession, for failures and frauds
>Nietzsche - wanted to be a composer and failed
>Wittgenstein - wanted to be an engineer, failed, wanted to be a mathematician, failed, wanted to be a musician, failed
>Heidegger - wished he was a poet/artist, failed
>Schopenhaur - wished he was a musician so that wouldn't have to live his boring philosopher life, failed
>Russell - wanted to be a great mathematician, wasn't as smart as other mathematicians and so opted for philosophy
>every single modern anglo philosopher - wished they were mathematicians, but failed, so they try pathetically to use mathematical symbols and logic in their philosophy so that they can at least get the aesthetic of it

Philosophers are also all sad manlets trying to compensate for low self esteem
>Heidegger was like 5 feet
>Wittgenstein - 5'6"
>Nietzsche 5'8"
>Camus - 5'7"
>Kant - 5'0" LMAO
>Sartre - 5'0" LMFAO
>Derrida - 5'5"
>Zizek - 5'8"
etc. etc. etc..

Philosophers wish they could make an impact on the world, they wish they could create beautiful works of art, they wish they could be good looking Chads, but they always fail, so they try to argue their way out of it, reason their way our of it: "I may not be able to get that cute girl, but, uh, it's because I'm the Ubermensch, hehehe, right guys!?" Every philosophical theory has been overturned, and philosophy has NEVER come up with a definitive answer. It is a failed field, and no one takes it seriously. Philosophers are all sad, pathetic, delusional people.

>inb4 philosopher manlets try to refute this with "hurr durr spooks!" "muh muh philosophy was before science so therefore uh, uh, it's superior" or "surprise you've been doing philosophy ur whole l-life, haha gotcha!" or literal philosophical reasoning, proving my point exactly

LMFAO

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Is detective/murder mystery still a viable genre these days? It feels like every story has been told, every locked room mystery already done.
Is there a market for a genre-fusing of detective fiction and fantasy? That way you could go the extra mile and incorporate magic or the supernatural into the a genre dependent on pure logic. Could that even work?

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What are some recommended translations of Hesiod's main works? I'm enjoying reading about Greek/Roman mythology a lot more than I thought I would so I'd appreciate being able to read his original works.

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What poems do you like, where it's written with the structure of the poem in mind, like being written the same backwards/forwards, or being in a certain shape? I like this one because it reads the same backwards and forwards

(II) The Demon Regent Asmodeus

Symmetry becomes it.
Come to ruin our impending feast,
a presence that nourishes suffering.
All things below voice his burning name.
His turmoil offers only truth in which longer moments live.
Let consciousness recapture the flicker it saw then.
Torch our continuity of thought
now until that mind evaporates.
Lust after shadows in us,
rend that lace of promises broken and white lies,
regard our love of wreckage,
the way our heads thunder approaching that warning pulse
and temple of throbbing light that is
Asmodeus.

Asmodeus
is that light throbbing of temple and pulse
warning that approaching thunder heads our way.
the wreckage of love,
our regard lies white and broken,
promises of lace that rend us in shadow,
after lust evaporates.
Mind that until now thought of continuity,
our torch, then saw it flicker.
The recapture, consciousness let live moments longer,
which, in truth, only offers turmoil.
His name burning,
his voice below things.
All suffering nourishes that presence.
A feast impending.
Our ruin to come.
It becomes symmetry.
-Alan Moore
*Moon and Serpent Grand Egyptian Theater of Marvels*

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I'm well educated in myths and tropes and know how to construct a story to manipulate an audience, but have never read Joyce and honestly have been too busy reading for study and am primed for a spontaneous ejaculation of creativity. I feel like reading Joyce will speed me along the evolutionary on-ramp. Should I read this?

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I'm too much of a brainlet for poetry.
Why don't poems rhyme anymore? Free verse seems confusing.
Also, how did most poets write poems? Did they tend to come up with the content first and rewrite to fit a specific form or did they decide on a form first and then write the content to fit it. The second one seems more sensible to me.

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Why didn't he just stop trying to kill the whale when it was obvious he couldn't get him? Kind of dumb character desu

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Hi C/lit/s,

I've been looking for these books online for as long as this chart has been a thing and i can't find them. Could any of you with a University pass make a file with these books in pdf , i , and without a doubt many others , would be extremely grateful.

Thanks in advance m80s

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What is a character from a literary work you relate to? Why?

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What are some good about the irony of powerful people or beings who realize how impotent they are despite that, or become bored of their power?

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Has anyone here read the little stories Pynch wrote in his high school newspaper? Ye Legend of Sir Stupid and the Purple Knight is delightful.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon_bibliography#Juvenilia

https://biblioklept.org/2013/02/26/ye-legend-of-sir-stupid-and-the-purple-knight-thomas-pynchon-juvenilia/

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Taking Service Classes Seriously In Philosophy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMkAP5VJ08M

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I really want to read this book but I'm afraid that a lot of it will pass over my head (I'm esl). Is there a specific edition I should get that would help me to better understand the book?

Also, what are other Medieval literature I should try? The Canterbury Tales sounds very interesting, and I'm interested in the era in general. Is there something good which is talking about the life in the era stuff like that?