Where do I start with Flaubert?
Work the shaft, don't neglect the balls.
The movie version with Robin Williams
Start and end with collected letters, fit St Anthony in there if you feel like it
What does /lit/ think of this generation's greatest poet?
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqVIORPKW0I
>>9721993
Am I angry? I am angry. I AM angry. I am ANGRY!
- Kate Tempest
Based Tempest, never seen anybody else do what she does well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEiBdU0tFB0
One of her best songs.
>>9722004
A video that proves to me, for the umpteenth time, that English sounds ridiculously awful and clumsy. Thank you anon.
Would he have been considered the GOAT poet had he been born an Anglo?
I am honestly under that impression.
How dark was he? It was a great grandfather wasn't it that was brought to russia from africa right?
Or an earlier ancestor?
>>9721990
Why do you care?
But he is the goatest of all time already
Finally someone puts Peterson in his place
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSuEccEYvaE
>>9721830
>postmodernism is against grand narratives and ideology
>make an open letter to defend the grand narrative and ideology of postmodernism
>>9721858
the creator of this video doesn't have to be a postmodernist
Peterson is good at basic life advice but very little else.
The only reason he's popular is because he appeals to a bunch a uneducated basement dwellers who get overhwlemed by even the simplest issues in life. I would bet that the majority of his audience don't even know what post modernism is.
Are there any authors who write about why brown people struggle with demonstrating gratitude?
It seems odd to me that virtually every brown political movement and artwork ever is defined by ressentiment, but nobody acknowledges it
>>9721808
the bell curve
It's because "somebody" treated them like subhumans for hundreds of years
>>9721854
THE STEREOTYPE PROLIFERATES
how to improve prose?
>>9721524
read write think
>>9721524
Stop being black.
>>9721524
how to improse prove?
>there is literally no one in my fucking life besides /lit/ that I can discuss books with and I can't even really do that with /lit/
what book do you want to talk about?
>>9721504
Usually anything I've read recently or whatever topic I happen to set my mind on for whatever arbitrary reason pops into question, but with my peers it's usually shit like "oh man you seen the new spider-man trailer? How fucking awesome does it look?" "Yeah dude hella-fucking-epic can't wait to see the new mummy movie bro!" "oh yeah man gonna go home and play me som crash bandicoot today after I watch Baywatch©"
What have you been reading lately, Anon? We're happy to listen.
Are you ready for 3000 pages on water?
Is the Women and Men reprint actually going to be released in five days? I feel like they're just going to change it. I'm referring to the date on bookdepository and target's website. I don't see anything on Amazon. And that pic says fall of this year.
Thanks for any info
>>9721469
Also, the last time I checked his site (until two seconds ago), the date for the W&M reprint was spring 2015, as in it never happened. So is it safe to assume Target and bookdepot are wrong?
>>9721427
Post what you are currently writing and get critiqued by other anons.
Not really a sample but would anyone be interested in a novel that explores contemporary political philosophy through dialogue? It also has a plot but it's secondary to losers talking about politics
>>9721419
Sounds interesting but awfully hard to pull off. You would have to provide some legitimate insights to make the book worth reading. I can turn on CNN for "losers talking about politics." You would also have to keep the dialogue well balanced so one point of view doesn't take over the book and turn your story into a masturbatory piece of propaganda which alienates half of your potential readers. The easiest course may be to write it as satire but even so, I think the major challenge is in overcoming our incredibly polarized political world with genuinely unique ideas or new perspectives.
I ve been reading Junkie by Burroughs.
Is it possible to make a sound version of Aquinas' First Way in modern terminology or does it depend upon the Act/Potency Distinction to make sense at all?
you would probably have to explain
what this means
or provide an example
for the confused ones
who know not
of what you speak
t. brainlet - rupi kaur
>>9721294
Aquinas' first part of his argument the Five Ways - the First Way - is argued using the Aristotelian method for understanding causation, the act/potency distinction. I am wondering if the argument can be valid if worded in modern methods of understanding causation or if it depends on that method.
>>9721384
Aristotelian conception doesnt invalidate modern causation interpretation and vice versa
ITT literary "villains" who did literally nothing wrong.
Captain Blicero
Moby Dick. Ahab is just fucking insane.
Hey guys, I need some books/authors recommendations. Recently I've been extremely related with death (a lot of close people and family members died suddenly, at similar dates). Up until now (22), I had never experienced death, and I'm sincerely overwhelmed and lost about how to face it.
I'm a philosophy graduate so my go-to method when something irks me is to read authors (aka people more intelligent than me) that talk about the subject that I'm worried about to see If they help me understand it or, at least, feel like I'm not alone in my worries. I've already read Being and Time (with the help of a guide, the book was pretty complicated) and Derrida's "The gift of death" (this was my first attempt at reading Derrida and it proved quite the task), but I'm still quite lost and I dont know what more authors to read.
I'm an atheist, so I'm not asking about books that give me hope about death. What I'm interested in is to know how to relate to death (I don't know if this expression is correct, pardon my english in general). Thank you for reading me and thanks to those who answer. I'll be cheking the post.
The Death of Ivan Ilych
>>9721110
>The Death of Ivan Ilych
This
>>9721110
I was waiting for a chance to delve into Tolstoi, so this is a wonderful recommendation. Thanks, I'll definitely read it. Any other work come to mind?
culture of critique
lol got a link to the lothrop stoddord one on the right
DUDE HAVE AN IMPACT ON PEOPLE'S LIVES THEN THEY WILL THINK ABOUT YOU WHILE ACTING SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT AND YOU WILL LIVE FOREVER INSIDE THEM LMAO
sorry you didn't understand the novel.
that's ok, it's very complicated
there is no way /lit/ is going to meme me again
I refuse to touch memelroy and my life will be all the richer for it
>>9721204
Let us here your take Einstein?
So, what was the joke?
You pig
Pa. Why is bacon breakfast?
What.
You can put eggs on lunch.
Ye.
But if you put bacon on stuff it becomes breakfast?
The man spat and said the bacon is not for this world or from this world it comes from the pig but the pig knows it not.
He wiped his chin and spat.
>>9720446
what's a porko's favourite song
little grills by oinko boinko