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Why isn't he held in higher esteem? He was an absolute pioneer in terms of his philosophy and its application in the development of a better self

His name should come before Nietzsche, Heidegger and all the others that followed in his footsteps

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Holy shit. I didn't think it would be this good. Does it have to be read it Arabic and out-loud? What are some good translations of the meaning of the Qur'an? Any supplemental material (particular hadiths)? What kind of Muslim should I be--Sunni, Shia, or something else?

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Is Infinity Jest hard to read?

By hard to read I mean: is it The Sound And The Fury Quentin Section Tier?

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He has less talent than both Rupi and Savannah yet he's never bitched about on here. Why?

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Tell me about that story you haven't been writing. What's stopping you from putting pen to paper?

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Mycroft Canner is my /lit/fu but not yours edition.

Fantasy
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/r688cPe.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/igBYngL.jpg
Flowchart:
>https://i.imgur.com/uykqKJn.jpg

Science Fiction
Selected:
>https://i.imgur.com/A96mTQX.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/IBs9KE8.jpg
General:
>https://i.imgur.com/r55ODlL.jpg
>https://i.imgur.com/gNTrDmc.jpg

NPR's Top 100 Science Fiction & Fantasy Books:
>https://i.imgur.com/IJxTQBL.jpg

Slaughtered in a very GRI way
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I was reading "1984" by George Orwell when I came across that the female lead worked w/ a machine that, and I'm not joking, is called a "Pornorite" that writes porn. I can't go into detail as to why an autoritarian gov't needs such a machine but it got me thinking; could one day machines (via A.I. or procedural generation) write books? And if so, elegantly enough that the untrained reader couldn't tell it apart from one written by humans?

Discuss.

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Reposting for those who missed it last time.

BOOK DUMP

Hey guys I made a Mega of pic related, /lit/ top 100, missing #13 (Bottoms Dream) however.

https://mega.nz/#F!KgcnTALC!9QmFF05ekmd5b7KoI-uopg

Now go get some reading done ya bums.

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Does /lit/ read Biographies? if so post some you've read and recommend to each other.

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Have you ever heard about Machado de Assis, /lit/?
This thread is directed for non-brazilians about the biggest name of literature in Brazil.

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post mundane shit you never come across

other anons will say where they've seen them

>getting a sunburn
>playing a card trick
>shopping for groceries
>cleaning out your car

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Reality is the state of things. To live in reality is to know the state of things and to act accordingly. But as Descartes showed, we cannot prove the state of things as we perceive them to be the actual state of things. Therefore we cannot live in reality.
I beg to differ. The state of things is simply the true reality. While we cannot know what that state is, we can know the state of things as we encounter them, or the immediate order of reality.
Thirdly there is a state of things as we know them, or the factual order of reality. That is where we can live with authenticity, where we can realise ourselves.
But in order to make our factual reality our immediate reality, we first have to act according to our immediate reality. No idea, however true, based upon the factual reality can ever help in that progress.
Prisoners we are. We might know of a key, but if our cell prohibits us from ever reaching it what good does that do?

Repent nihilists of /lit/. Repent and see your errors.

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http://www.psypost.org/2017/05/men-use-metaphorical-language-perceived-attractive-women-study-49038

Science has finally justified the existence of literature from an evolutionary biology perspective, metaphors make women wet. So get practicing on that shit because apparently even shit tier metaphors such as "your eyes are like a gorgeous rainbow" rate above "ur sexy bby :)))"

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>Women can't write lit-

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Rank these

>Seeing Shakespeare performed on the stage
>Reading Shakespeare
>Seeing a filmed, verbatim performance of Shakespeare
>Seeing a filmed adaptation of Shakespeare
>OMG Shakespeare