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Do you agree?

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how do i write a story

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If I think therefore I am, then I must think that I am thought but then which thought am I?

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Anyone ever read Henri Bergson? What do ya'll guys think of him?

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I'm thinking of reading Moby Dick while I'm at the beach next week. Problem is, I'm a dumbass. Does /lit/ know of a good annotated copy that will help me get the most out of it?

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Any ficition or non fiction regarding transgenderism? Ive read Orlando by Woolfe and loved it and would like more.

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I learned recently about a video-game term that teenagers these days throw around: "overpowered," or "OP" for short. If a character type in a competitive video game is inordinately more powerful than the others, then it is "overpowered"; the game as a result is deemed "unbalanced," and fans will complain on forums that the developers have delivered to them a swift "slap in the face." It's an interesting metaphor. Life, of course, is no game, and it's a truism that it isn't fair. But every once in a while we get a striking reminder of how unevenly Mother Nature distributes her gifts. Take the literary world for instance. By any measure, David Foster Wallace, the author of the acclaimed novel Infinite Jest, was overpowered. If he were a class in a role-playing game, then you wouldn't hear the end of the complaining. When it came to the writing of fiction, Wallace blew his competitors—historical and contemporary both—out of the water. To borrow another term from video gaming, it's fair to say that he "owned" them. When Infinite Jest hit book stores in February 1996, the title's two words were in the mouth of every serious reader in America; every living writer, however, was faced with a different pair of words: "Game Over."

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To Micheal Tolkein, 6-8 March 1941...

In this fallen world the 'friendship' that should be possible between all human beings, is virtually impossible between man and woman. The devil is endlessly ingenious, and sex is his favourite subject. He is as good every bit at catching you through generous romantic or tender motives, as through baser or more animal ones. This 'friendship' has often been tried: one side or the other nearly always fails. Later in life when sex cools down, it may be possible. It may happen between saints. To ordinary folk it can only rarely occur: two minds that have really a primarily mental and spiritual affinity may by accident reside in a male and a female body, and yet may desire and achieve a 'friendship' quite independent of sex. But no one can count on it. The other partner will let him (or her) down, almost certainly, by 'falling in love'. But a young man does not really (as a rule) want 'friendship', even if he says he does. There are plenty of young men (as a rule). He wants love: innocent, and yet irresponsible perhaps. Allas! Allas! that ever love was sinne! as Chaucer says. Then if he is a Christian and is aware that there is such a thing as sin, he wants to know what to do about it.

You may meet in life (as in literature) women who are flighty, or even plain wanton — I don't refer to mere flirtatiousness, the sparring practice for the real combat, but to women who are too silly to take even love seriously, or are actually so depraved as to enjoy 'conquests', or even enjoy the giving of pain – but these are abnormalities, even though false teaching, bad upbringing, and corrupt fashions may encourage them. Much though modern conditions have changed feminine circumstances, and the detail of what is considered propriety, they have not changed natural instinct. A man has a life-work, a career, (and male friends), all of which could (and do where he has any guts) survive the shipwreck of 'love'. A young woman, even one 'economically independent', as they say now (it usually really means economic subservience to male commercial employers instead of to a father or a family), begins to think of the 'bottom drawer' and dream of a home, almost at once.

tl;dr - The Master himself says that women and men can never be friends. Therefore, women should LEAVE this place, now (also, stop being hussies)!

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What are some essential historical novels to read?

I thoroughly enjoyed Shogun, are the other books in the series just as good?

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If he hated democracy, what form of government did he support? If he were here today, where would he align politically?

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What writers give you homicidal urges, /lit/, either for literary or personal reasons?

Me, it's pic related. I can't bring myself to go into details though.

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What happens when we die?

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do you listen to audio books?

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What even is reality?

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Marx - Lenin - Gramsci - Laclau - Lacan - Althusser - Therborn - Jameson - Latour.

Is a more patrician path even possible?